Pay-for-play price increases?

[Brett_Tabke]

I've heard from three different reliable sources, that there may be significant price increases coming very soon.

[bobriggs]

Any idea how significant?

[tigger]

Isn't it ironic that this is going to happen just before most peoples renewal date. So it would be a good idea to pay for additional pages then, any idea on
how much we are looking at ?

Thanks brett

[TMK]

I hope they dont go up too much. 30$US is around 60$AUS. I know its not as much as others but if they kept it low more people would pay for it? Or am i wrong?

[caine]

well that hastens a decision i was'nt planning to make for a while. Get PT know, or pay x-times later.

[mayor]

Any official word coming in advance, or do we get the usual "sock it to the webmasters" surprise when we wake up one morning?

The tables are turning. Webmasters are becoming the hand that feeds the search engines. If the SE's want to build loyalty among their webmaster customers, they'll have to develop an attitude change and begin treating them as customers or partners, and as we all know most of them have no idea how to do that.

They also have to think about what their website customers can afford and still be in the pay-to-play business, and if there is anything they can do to help their customers get a better return on their money (like maybe getting MSN to limit the number of directory listings that usually bury the paid inclusion pages).

The pay-to-play arena isn't the free lunch the SE's think they are casting their eyes upon. They're charging like lemmings towards the thinning coffers of the commercial webmasters. If they just take, and don't give better ways for these websites to make money, they will soon find the wells dry.

[makemetop]

I have been called by someone 'in the know' to saying the price may well increase a couple of months ago - with an indication that facilities offered may increase also. So this doesn't surprise me. The big question is how much by and when? Problem is that Ink know exactly who is getting good traffic and can probably guestimate our ROI. If Ink can see that I have xxx customers and they are getting yyy traffic which is highly relevant to their sites - they know that we are probably going to keep on paying if it rises by a few bucks per page :(

[click watcher]

can i change the url of submitted pages at no cost,

i'd like to submit a whole bunch in a couple of weeks but unsure what they will be

could i submit 01.htm 02.htm etcetc and change them when appropriate

i'd love to miss a price increase.

[tigger]

Yes there is a free switch option

[click watcher]

thanks tigger, i've just done my first paid inclusion and the refereals and business from msn has been great, so i want to do a load more.

(even with lower position for my killer keyphrase on msn/ink than on google i'm getting many more refferals and more conversions)

[ggrot]

There is a free switch option right now if you use the network solutions route instead of PT.

[skibum]

If they fall AV's lead in pricing, the increase could be substantial.

[stcrim]

Free Switch is available on NS and PT.

-s-

[egomaniac]

Are the any strings attached to the "free switch" option?

Can I switch as many times as I want over the entire year contract?

Not that I would do this, but I am thinking of buying a few placeholder pages until I finish some new pages that I am working on.

[tigger]

You can switch as many times as you want within the URL