Search engines - paying for top rankings

[mouse]

I want my site in the top 5-10 places givena certain search criteria. I'm willing to pay to some extent. I believe the days where paying for rankings was unethical are now gone and it's time to widen my site's scope.

Which engines should I target? and what schemes? I'd rather not pay for a service to do my submissions, I'd rather target big engines like Google and ???

What do peeps think?

[joh6nn]

i think the most effective thing is link exchange. also, try linking to your site in your sig. it's shameless, but it works. just make sure that the words that you use to link to your site, are the words that you want to be searched for.

[gorilla1]

try linking to your site in your sig Sig?? What is sig?

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[praveen]

sig : signature.

put ur site url in ur signatures.

[Nightfire]

Try these out.

http://www.overture.com
http://www.ah-ha.com
http://www.espotting.com

These are the main suppliers to paid search engine submissions. Cover MSN, Google, Yahoo, Altavista, plus hundreds, if not thousands of other search engines.