Abstract: Manual Search Engine Submission
Tag: Manual Search Engine Submission
Search engine submission is a matter that often mystifies those
who are new to the Internet. It is natural to scratch your head
and wonder how you will get your website listed on the major
search engines. If you ask someone how to go about getting your
site listed you are likely to hear many misconceptions about
search engine submission. You may even be taken for a ride and
end up needlessly parting with some hard earned cash. So, before
this happens to you let’s examine some of the most common myths
surrounding search engine submission.
1. Search engine submission is a very important matter
It would indeed seem that you submitting your site to the search
engines is of utmost point. After all, if your site is not
in the search engines then how will anybody find you? Sure, you
have to be included in the search engines but that doesn’t
necessarily mean that you will have to actively “submit” your
site. This is because search engines use their “spiders”, or
robotic search programs to scour the Internet looking for new
pages. If another site, that is already included in the search
engines, links to yours, then when a search engine spider visits
that site, it will follow the link to your site and gather your
information.
So, if you are building a new site make sure that you get some
links to your sites from already established sites. Ask your
webmaster, your friends, other organizations and complementary
sites for links. This will be enough to get you listed in the
major search engines. You may still want to submit your site to
make sure, but consider the other points before you go ahead
2. There are thousands of search engines that you should be
listed in
“Get listed in 300,000 search engines” read the headlines for
some submission advertisements. If you look at the traffic logs
of most websites you will see that the lion’s share of traffic
comes from a handful of search locations, such as Google, Yahoo,
MSN and Ask Jeeves. There just aren’t thousands of search sites
on the Internet. So, don’t pay money to be listed on these
sites. Oftentimes, the sites referred to in these advertisements
are seldom-visited free-for-all links pages. If you get listed
on such a page you will not get much traffic, but you will get a
lot of spam.
Concentrate on the major search engines and don’t worry about
the non-existent phantoms referred to in the advertisements.
3. Monthly submission to search engines is a must
In the early days of the Internet, the companies that handled
search engine submission warned the public that sites can be
easily lost from search engine indexes and that to prevent this
from happening it is important to resubmit your site every
months. They also said that this was a good way to let search
engines know about new additions to your pages.
It is not very likely that your site will disappear from a
search engine for no reason at all. If your site is “down” for a
considerable amount of time then it might be possible for your
site to be dropped from the listings, but otherwise this rarely
happens.
Also, you don’t have to resubmit your site to notify search
engines about changes to your page or pages. The spiders of
search engines regularly revisit pages that are already in the
index. You can in fact create a “robots” meta tag and give
instructions such as “revisit every 15 days” and this will
accomplish the job better than a resubmission.
4. Automatic submissions are useless and you must submit manually
There is often a hot debate about whether manual submissions are
better than automatic submissions. For Yahoo, MSN and Google it
is now better to do it with a manual submission because all of
these engines require you to fill in a code word that is
displayed on the screen. These search engines instituted this
procedure to block out automated spam submissions. So, for the
giants of search, manual submission is the way to go.
What about the secondary sites? There are smaller search engines
and directories. Some of them can be useful to you, especially
if they represent a particular geographic area or business niche
that you are aiming for. If the list of these secondary engines
and directories becomes too large, then you may want to consider
automated submission. There are some programs that do this or
you can find submission services that are free or inexpensive,
which brings us to the last myth.
5. You should be prepared to spend a lot of money to get proper
submission
If you look at the first point you will see that you probably
don’t have to do any submission at all to get your site listed
in Google, Yahoo, MSN and Ask Jeeves. These are the search
engines that will provide you with 90% of your visitors. So, do
you really want to spend a good amount of money to reach the
last 5 or 10 per cent of your possible visitors? Look around for
a free or inexpensive service to take care of the secondary
search engines, and if there are smaller search engines that are
very important to your business, then visit them yourself and
submit your listing. Save your money for other important tasks.
About the author:
Donald Nelson is a web developer, editor and social worker. He
is the director of A1-Optimization
http://www.a1-optimization.com a firm providing low cost search
engine optimization, submission and web promotion services. He
is the principal editor at the A1-Article Directory,
http://www.a1-articledirectory.com
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