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==Paid Inclusion==

Paid Inclusion is a fee-based model for submitting website listings to search engines. Historically, search engines have allowed webmasters, as well as SEOs and the general public, to freely submit sites for consideration. However, asa pattern of abuse frombegan someto develop among less-reputable SEO firms, inwho flooded the formengines ofwith incessantnon-stop submissions beganof topages. strainAnalysis of these submissions strained the search engines' capacity, anecessitating fee-basedthe systemcreation of artificial limits, wasincluding adoptedfees.

The fee structure is used by search engines as a filter against superfluous submissions, and also as a revenue generator. Typically, the fee covers an annual subscription for one webpage, which will automatically be cataloged on a regular basis.