Search Engine Submissions: Don’t Even Bother - Why not Submit to the Search Engines?
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There is no good reason to submit to the search engines. Unlike Internet directories such as the Open Directory Project (better known as DMOZ) or the Yahoo! Directory which require manual submissions, the search engines index sites without you ever having to submit to them.
A website will be indexed with as little as one link from a site already indexed by the search engine. For example, if a site that is included in the Google search engine links to your site, the spiders will follow that link. Once the spiders crawl your site, it’s almost immediately part of the Google index. It’s that simple. Users of the Google Toolbar can also tell they have been indexed as their PageRank meter will turn from grey to white.
It is thought by a number of search engine optimization professionals, that a site found by Google will rank higher than one that uses Google’s site submission process. There are also many people who believe, perhaps with some good evidence, that websites using Google’s submission page don’t get included by the search engine industry leader.
Other search engines, notably Teoma and Wisenut, are often difficult for some novice webmasters to even locate the submission page. Many search engines simply don’t have easily located free submission options. Of course, that is not always a bad thing, as search engine submissions, through their submission pages, are often very slow.
Their only method of inclusion is often to have their spider crawl a link from one of their indexed websites to your new site. While experienced web professionals usually have no difficulty in getting indexed by all of the search engines many novices find the process very difficult.
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