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, health, 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
