Do you have to pay to just submit your site to a search engine?
 

Do you have to pay just to submit your site to a search engine? Because I cant find where just to submit a site at they all want money? www.hotbot.com www.lycos.com www.excite.com just to name a few?

yes, and it costs almost $300 a domain

Is this your first site?

yes

$300 are you sure? I got a qoute for one of them at $70.00 but that seems like alot?

with 2800+ posts how is this even possible? hmm nevermind, I know.

Yes you have to pay me to get on those search engines.

First send me $100 per search engine.

Then leave a piece of paper with your domains listed in alphabetic order under your front doormat with a $5 bill attached to it.

*sigh*

spidering

ok but seriously, dont waste your money.. ( not yet anyways )

If you get ONE gallery listed on thehun , google and yahoo will list your domain the very next day * providing your gallery has a link back to your main domain
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Yahoo directory listings can be worth it.

Some search engines actually penalize domains that pay to be listed * if they dont continue to pay more *

make a clean site, get it listed on dmoz.org

* p.s. do it right the first time or dmoz wont even pay attention to you. i.e. dont jerk them around

Damn, and I thought Larry Page was managing it all.
WG