Pay for being listed not PPC

Directories or search engines with flat fee

[silverbytes]

PPC is good however I'm looking for places where I can pay once and have a good referer to get visits from. I vaguely remember you can pay to get into a couple of medium or major se and directories.

Can someone recommend any?

[danay]

MSN Search is offering flat fee ppc. However, you have to run an annual campaign and hte minimum is pretty high.

I would only recommend it for offers where you receive a very high conversion and are looking for very good coverage (i.e. guaranteed top 3 placements on search results)

Good luck!
Danay

[edited by: msgraph at 2:58 pm (utc) on Feb. 24, 2005]
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[cyanweb]

Paid inclusion / placemet works well in targeted niche directories and "local portals" - look for sites that are actually paying for advertising in your target market and with other PPC engines - AdWords etc... watch them and make sure they are consistent and have been around for awhile...

In directory type search engines look for quality and content - you can often reserve top positions.

A good Paid inclusion site will give you traffic value over 12 months in the vicinity of $.40-$1.20 per visitor - comparing with Google Adwords that's not too bad depending on your target market... we have some clients using Paid inclusion that get $.07 per visitor in highly targeted categories...