website listing service

[Greg McCorkill]

has anyone ever heard of listingcorp .com?they sent me an offer saying that they could get my web site listed with all the major search engines.does this work?

[DanEpps]

\"Offers\" of that sort are usually either (a) something you can do yourself for free, (b) expensive pay-per-click \"services\" or (c) expensive advertising on search sites.

All search engines crawl the internet at the rate determined by their operators. Eventually your site will be crawled and indexed if you do nothing. You can submit your site to Google, Yahoo, MSM, etc yourself for free.

Whether you submit it yourself or pay a \"service\" to do that for you, your site still will not be indexed until the crawler gets back around to you--nothing (except possbily paid advertising) will speed that up.

[Michael Yeargain]

Greg,

Dan Epps has an enormous knowledge base in this feild. As for myself, I would tend to ignore solicitation of this sort. I don't think they can do this as effectively as those that major companies use. I would seek those out.

It's best remembered: You get what you pay for...