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Search Engine Submission- Don’t be a cheapskate!
By Derek Arnold
Submitting your website to the main search engines should be handled
with care. Do it right, and the rewards can be great. Webmaster
Beware- Submitting your website to the major search engines too
often can get your website banned completely from those all important
major search engines, like Google, MSN, Yahoo and Alta Vista. Let’s
face it, everyone wants the coveted top position in their respective
category on all the major search engines.
Getting there requires a lot of tweaking of your meta tags, reciprocal
linking to sites with high page ranks, and of course submitting
your site to the search engines, either manually or utilizing a
service to do it for you. Submitting your site manually is a long
a tedious operation, often requiring more time than you had planned
on spending just to submit to 30 or less search engines. Submitting
your site manually is not recommended.
Using a free service to submit your site is the next option you
have for getting your site to the internet. The only problem with
this method is that you get listed on only a few engines and, you
sacrifice your email address to spam gods and become a part of the
millions of poor souls who can never get any rest from the nasty
spam vermin that will prey on you for the rest of your natural born
life. In addition, it becomes very hard to track how often you have
submitted your site to the search engines in the first place.
Using a qualified submission service is the most obvious choice
here. There are a lot of services out there with offers like “Submit
your site to 500,000 search engines and directories for only $39.95”,
the real problem with this is there are not even remotely close
500,000 qualified search engines out there, so that means that 99%
of your submissions are going to what is know as FFA (Free-for-All)
directories. These are NOT where you want to be, besides the fact
that you are now in the dreaded worldwide spammers database, your
site is listed on directories that get little or no respectable
traffic and you have been taken for $39.95. These types of submission
services are a dime a dozen on the internet and you should steer
clear of any such ridiculous offers or claims.
The reputable companies will give you a clear and concise description
of their services.
They will break it down for you with information like as follows:
• Which engines they specifically submit to.
• A written guarantee not to share your personal information.
• Make no outrageous claims to submission to hundreds of thousands
of engines.
• They will disclose all of they’re contact information
so that you may contact them by phone or other means.
• They will provide you with a detailed report via email on
your submission results, including who your site was submitted to
and the disposition of your submission.
If you want a proper submission for your website, you are going
to have to pay for it. There are too many quality submission services
to list in this article but we have a good list you can review on
our website at http://www.bullmarketer.com.
Look under the “Weblinks” directory, under search engine
submission. We have a high Google page rank, quality traffic, and
lots of link back to our site and I can promise you it all started
with the use of a quality submission service. Good luck with your
life, love, healthy, and of course, your website submission. Derek
Arnold About the Author Derek Arnold is the President of BullMarketer.com,
a webmaster resource site offering many tools for webmasters, marketers,
and designers. Also has over 18 years of experience in the marketing
and advertising fields. Homepage: http://www.bullmarketer.com
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