PositionTech price hike again!

Will this ever stop?

[Moby1]

The prices for pages 2-1000 have increased again to $12 now. This is substantial considering the fact that not long ago pages 100-1000 would cost $6 per page. They have literally doubled the price! I'm getting very tired of this. Everytime I decide to pay the piper and list some pages, I find another rate increase.

We are paying them so their database will be fresh. Is that our responsibility?

[stcrim]

As long as there are people willing to pay the new price, the price will continue to climb. It's just like anything else in this or any other business - demand drives the price!!!

It would be interesting to see what happened to those prices if MSN switched to Google or ran their own PFP-DB.

Wonder if MSN know the could be gettng paid for search results rather than paying for them.

I would give you 10 cents for all of the rest of INK's portals.

-s-

[WebGuerrilla]

The cost for additional pages did go up, but they dropped the requirement that the first page of each new domain is $30.00. I guess if you only have one site that you submit, this looks more like a price hike, but for those that regularly submit multiple sites, it works out to be a much better deal.

[stcrim]

My large sites have 4 and 5 thousand pages to them - and I've got several. For me (though I have not and will not pay for these sites) this is anything but a good deal.

Based on the original price my additional expense would be 24 to 30 grand per site and based on just the current increase 8 to 10 grand per site...

The math just isn't there

-s-

[Jill]

Steve is right on IMO. Not to mention that the pages I have paid for pretty much never showed up in the Ink partners databases. So what did I pay for, to be stored in Ink's database never to be seen? Not worth it! I won't do it again that is for sure.

Jill

[engine]

I agree with STCRIM.

<devils advocate>
I suppose it's a good way of reducing the volume in their index.

If they could get $1,000 per page, they'd do it. How many sites would be left in the index? Only the big corporates where $1,000 is peanuts.
</devils advocate>

<IDEA>Create a few cracking doorway pages and only have them spidered. Try that and see if the positioning works. Perhaps the whole site doesn't need spidering.</IDEA>

[oLeon]

From Positiontech...
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Please note that there will be a price change effective 04/23/01. URLs 2-20 will increase to $15.00 each and URLs 21-1,000 will remain at $12.00.

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