# Do I need to pay to be listed on Google?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-i-need-to-pay-to-be-listed-on-google/143372>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [December 17, 2002, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-i-need-to-pay-to-be-listed-on-google/143372 "2002-12-17T18:34:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![CookingWithGas](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cookingwithgas/32/485_2.png) [@CookingWithGas](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CookingWithGas)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2002, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-i-need-to-pay-to-be-listed-on-google/143372/1 "2002-12-17T18:34:16Z")

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On at least one [web hosting web site](http://www.netsol.com/en_US/build-it/compare.jhtml) the company lists “Submission of your Web site to the Google search engine” but only for their higher-priced web hosting packages. I thought Google decided for themselves what to include, and I thought it was pretty much everything in the universe.

It is a scam to charge extra for a Google listing?

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**Author:** ![friedo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8edcca/32.png) [@friedo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/friedo)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2002, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-i-need-to-pay-to-be-listed-on-google/143372/2 "2002-12-17T20:11:56Z")

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It depends what they mean. Most likely, they’ll just [go here](http://www.google.com/addurl.html) and enter your site’s URL, a task that you are perfectly capable of doing yourself for free in about five seconds.

On the other hand, they may be talking about placing ads with Google, which obviously costs money, but I doubt it.

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**Author:** ![bibliophage](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bibliophage/32/7615_2.png) [@bibliophage](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bibliophage)\
**Post date:** [December 17, 2002, 8:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-i-need-to-pay-to-be-listed-on-google/143372/3 "2002-12-17T20:43:36Z")

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Accidental duplicate thread. See the other copy: [http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=151020](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=151020)