Submit Your Site – Fact or Myth?
You have probably seen the adverting e-mails that promise to Submit Your
Site to 1000 Search Engines for a one time fee of $69.95.
Statistics* show that 43.7% of searchers use Google, 28.8% use Yahoo!,
12.8% use MSN/Live and the remaining 14.7% use other search engines and
directories. So shouldn’t we wonder what the reasoning behind the ad
Submit your site to 1000 Search Engines is?
Around 1995 the Internet started to really take off. In 1995 according
to Internet World Stats there where 16 million Internet users. In 2007
they state that there are over 1,129 million users. So in all reality it
may have been important in the early days to submit your site to 1000
search engines, but in today’s world if the majority of Internet users
are only using the 3 top search engines doesn’t it make more sense to
concentrate on the search engines people are using.
Here is something very interesting that you may not know. Leading Search
Engine Optimizers (SEO) Professionals never submit a Web site to a
search engine. That’s right they let the search engines find their site
through other methods.
Professional SEO’s concentrate on:
- Submitting to the most influential directories on the Internet. Google
has even gone as far as to put a list together of the directories they
find the most important. (You can find that list on The Workshop
Resource Center).
- Feeding the search engines a good quality site map that the engines can
use to index all pages of a Web site.
- Submitting to a search engine through a Paid Inclusion Program.
- Link reputation and work on building quality in-bound links.
- Never using submission software.
Part of the job of a Professional SEO is to spend time keeping up to
date with any changes on the leading search engines and directories.
SEO's watch closely what Google, Yahoo! and MSN/Live have to say and if
they find through their research that indexing happens quicker by not
submitting a site then wouldn’t we want to follow their lead.
Time and research shows us that the days of submitting our sites to over
1000 search engines is long gone. SEO Professionals advise us that if we
want to spend $69.95 then spend that money on submitting your site to
one of the leading directories. One of the directories that Google
suggest we submit to Goguides.org and their submission fee just happens
to be $69.95.
*comScore Media Metrix Search Engine Ratings
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Author – Tracy Fredrychowski – SEO
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Search Engine Academy of SC
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