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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:
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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).
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Feeding the search engines
a good quality site map that the engines can use to index
all pages of a Web site.
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Submitting to a search
engine through a Paid Inclusion Program.
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Link reputation and work on
building quality in-bound links.
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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
Author – Tracy
Fredrychowski – SEO Instructor
Search Engine Academy of SC
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