Webgravity Inktomi Paid Inclusion

[waterfields]

OK, so I've never been a fan of paid inclusion but we live in a commercial world, so be it. But after looking out for the Webgravity offers recently I noticed a few things. Like, depending on where you find them decides the cost. On the front page it's detailed at £21 + £7 for extra pages. In the "tradedoubler" members site it's £50 and if you find it from Excite UK its more like £70. Then theres this. [searchenginescandal.com...] , is $20 not about £13 ???

[vis]

The only thing you might like to consider is that the prices on the link are slightly out of date.

Positiontech charges:

1st URL $30.00
URLs 2-20 $15.00 each
URLs 21-1,000 $12.00 each

Webgravity charges

First Page within a domain £ 21.00
Pages 2+ (within same domain) £ 7.00

Presuming you're VAT registered, WG is cheaper.

However, I would stop short of recommending one or the other as WG are probably in competition with you, offering, as they do SEO services. Also, I haven't heard an explanation for the Ink submission page being hidden away on their site (there used to be a link from their front page.)

[waterfields]

Although I do offer a SEO service, it really is beside the point. Suppose someone buys the service at the Excite point of entry, then goes to the webgravity site, see's the price at 1/3 what they paid? I will contact them about this so will keep you posted. thanks for the update.

[Laisha]

I would research carefully whether they are even offering Inktomi subscriptions at this point. Inktomi no longer lists them on their Search/Submit partners page [inktomi.com].

They have apparently conveyed to various inquiries that they are still partnered up, but I have not been able to confirm through anyone else that they are.

[Froggyman]

Inktomi Search/Submit Partners
[inktomi.com...]

eLuminator sounds interesting...

[shadowen]

From what I heard. Webgravity were booted by inktomi, because in client pitches they were saying they had inktomi's algorithm (however since their database is used by different search engines, each with its own algorithm this doesn't make much sense).