Houston Search Engine Marketing Fees

Houston's Host Fee Based Search Engines, Directories and their fees

Search Engine/Directory	Submission Costs	Summary	Info
Yahoo! Directory	$299.00 Yearly renewal	The top Directory. As of 12/01, Yahoo! Directory requires a yearly fee. A modified version of the Inktomi database powers the Web results.
Yahoo! Site Match	49.00 annual membership fee. 1st URL included in 49.00 fee 2-10 URLs 29.00 each 11-999 URLs 10.00 each ---------------------------------- Cost per click (cpc) charges also apply. It is 15-30 per click from the search results. See the Yahoo CPC Schedule.	By subscribing your Web pages to the Overture Site Match TM you make your products and services available to the top portals. That's 85% of the world searching population through leading search partners including Yahoo! Web results, MSN, Alta Vista, AlltheWeb, Lycos, and other major portal partners. See How Overture (Yahoo) Site Match Works.
Business.com	199.00 year for standard listing. Featured listing are PPC. Yearly renewal	Powers its own directory. Featured listings syndicated to many business related sites such as Business week, Fast Company and many more.
Yahoo Sponsor Links	Manual setup + $50.00 in "bidding account"	Works on a "bid for keyword/position" basis. (Pay Per Click) Their database powers sponsor listings in Yahoo!, MSN, AltaVista , Lycos, Excite, IWON and more.
Teoma/Ask	Paid inclusion service has been discontinued.	Powers Teoma and the Ask.com sites. Also powers Metacrawler, Excite, MySearch.com, MyWay.com, Ixquick, Mamma.com and Hotbot.com
Note: depending on the package you choose, you may also be submitted to additional search engines and directories that are not listed here. We will make those recommendations after speaking with a representative from your company.
Additional fees are paid directly to the search engines or their authorized agents.