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Some search engines used to offer a service called “trusted feed” or “paid guaranteed inclusion.” This paid service ensured the automatic and regular indexing of a large number of a website’s pages in their database. Generally, the cost of this service was performance-based and charged per click. Pages indexed through the trusted feed had the opportunity to appear in organic search engine results, but without any guarantee of ranking. However, this practice was gradually abandoned by the search engines that offered it, and it’s important to note that Google never implemented such a service.

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