A Paid listing is provided by Search Engines for greater online visibility. These Paid listings are normally shown on the top or right hand side margin, within the Search Engine results.
Text links appear at the top or side of search results for specific keywords. Payment is based on user clicks on the text link.
Contrast to natural listings. An item appearing on a search page which has paid for its position on the results page. A heading will usually indicate which listings are paid and which are natural listings.
A listing that you must pay for. For example, You can go to searchbc.com and tell the editors there about your site and they will list it for free. However, if you try that with Yahoo!, they will charge you $300USD. Only a select few paid listings are worth their fee. (Ask us which ones would be best for your site - we would be happy to make suggestions!).
Listings sold to advertisers by search engines through paid placement and paid inclusion marketing programs.
Listings sold to advertisers for a small fee.
Listings that search sell to advertiser, usually through paid placement or paid inclusion programs. In contrast, organic listings are not sold.
These are listings on Search Engines results that have been sold to advertisers, usually through a Paid Placement or Paid Inclusion programme. The alternative to these are organic listings which are not sold but generated by the Search Engines according to the relevancy of the pages.
The list of 'paid for' adverts that appear in a search engine results page
Most Search Engines now offer a way to advertise on their results pages in a Paid Listing section. The most common way of doing this is a PPC system (Pay Per Click) where you would only pay when a potential customer clicks on your ad and visits your website. The three main PPC systems in the UK are Google Adwords, Yahoo's Overture and Espotting/Miva.
Listings that search engines sell to advertisers, usually through paid placement or paid inclusion programs.
Listings that appear because they were purchased rather than ranked naturally. As it is virtually impossible to rank highly on every term related to your products and services, paid listings are used to drive a major proportion of traffic to your site.
The opposite of organic listings, advertisers pay to be indexed and included in search results under certain queries. The same as sponsored listings, they can be either in the form of a flat fee or CPC.