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
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 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:
BullMarketer.com
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