One service that you will probably stumble upon while looking for information on search engines and SEO are search engine submission services. But do these services really make a difference? Is submitting your site to search engines really worth the effort?
The truth is that submitting your website to a search engine is unnecessary, and you could end up wasting money with search engine submission services. So the bottom line is that search engine submission isn’t very useful, if not outright useless.
So how do search engines find and index your site?
Creepy, Crawly, Creepy, Crawly
Search engines use something called spiders to crawl the web and find new sites. What are spiders? They are programs which automatically browse the web. Spiders go through all ready indexed pages (which may very well have changed since they were last crawled), and links on indexed pages that lead to other pages (including ones not yet indexed). This means that even if you just have one link to your page from an all ready indexed page, a search engine spider could quickly find your page and index it (though length of time it takes websites to be indexed is really variable).
Focus on Link Building
A much better use of your time and energy would be to focus on building links to your page, it is through ingoing links (yes that’s links from other pages into yours) that are going to help search engines index your page, and they are great for SEO. Search engine submission will not help your ranking.
While search engine submission isn’t useful, submission to website directories can be quite useful, and part 2 of To Submit or Not to Submit will deal with website directories. Stay tuned!
A quality link building service should be a team of experienced people. Not just that, adequate and extensive knowledge of the industry will result in success or failure. For example, someone without extensive knowledge will still think that metatags matter in on-page seo or that reciprocal linking is still efficient when it isn’t.
You bring up some good points, though I wouldn’t go so far as saying that they (meta tags) don’t matter. The description meta tag is still important, keywords not so much but still worth having, other tags, it’s true they aren’t really going to do much if anything for you. But I do think that there’s a lot of people out there still whom do believe that meta tags are more important than they are, and don’t realize a whole lot more goes into SEO, and getting visitors.
Hey I came across your site by mistake on feedburner while trying to find something totally irrelevant but I am very pleased that I did, You have just got yourself another subscriber.
I think, the main thing we should configure on our website to be properly crawled is properly configured ROBOTS.Txt and SITEMAP. However site submission and directory submission is also very helpfull if you submit your site in proper niche directory and you should also focus on social bookmarking for link building.
Hello guys, since it seems that you are expert about meta tags. I would like to ask how many keywords can I place on my meta tags because I believe that excessive amount of it can cause the bot to trigger it as a spam.
Hey Freesky, I’ve written a post in response to your question (it’s the one called Thoughts on Keywords and Density), hope it helps
Thanks for your important information .as my suggestion link building is the most important factor for search engine ranking
web site advertising is more or less all about the number of other web pages connecting to your site. when not having these oneway links you’re dead in the water. I realized this soon after signing up for what is for me the most powerful semi-automatic website link building tools on the internet … promoting website
I believe when you need a dictionary to read the first paragraph of a blog post, you really wouldn’t want to continue, especially when you’re in a rush.
Wow, I never knew this, much appreciated.
About high quality content in the blog that is one.Thank you to share your very good advice
I think is important submit the website but is important don’t exagerate. It’s important to write s good content and right keywords.
Have you noticed a lot of links from creating your blog?