7 replies to this topic

[turbocashuk]

These companies that will submit your site to 500 000 search engines for $60 - is this another scam? I imagine 499 950 of those search engines arn't worth anything anyway.

[fred]

It's a scam

You site might be in their database but will never come out or nobody uses those search engines

[turbocashuk]

Thanks. Thought so.
In my opinion all you need to do is submit to google (free) and DMoz (free) and the rest will take care of itself (although it'll take a while)

[fred]

If you have incoming links or the google toolbar you don't even need to submit to google. It will find you

you need to submit to dmoz eventhough you might never be index or might take an eternity or 2.

submit to other directories

I know there is a thread in here with the topic to which directories to submit to

do a search in the forum ( i'm in a rush right now ) or someone might find the thread and post it here

[K.S. Katz]

Definitely stay away from those submissions services. They're bad news. If you're looking for quality directories to submit to, go to ISEDB.com.

[olahe]

Hi,

I'm new to this forum, and have almost none experience regarding submitting
websites to searchengines. But I do have a new website, and I was thinking of
using one of the below submitters to submit my website to well known engines worldwide.

http://www.trellian....lkit/index.html
http://www.submitplus.com/
http://www.submissionpro.com/
http://www.webposition.com/

Can you please give me your opinion, are they all scams? Don't I need them at all
for registrating my website to the searchengines?

Thanks!

[qwerty]

Welcome, olahe

The important thing is to get other sites to link to you, and a good way to do that is to get listed in human-edited directories. The spidering search engines will find your site by following those links, so you don't need to submit to them at all.

In the case of some search engines, like Google, you can submit if you want to (although as I said, it's not necessary), but if you choose to do so, do it manually. Using tools that automate your submission won't help at all, and anyone who tells you they're going to submit your site to anything more than a handful of search engines is either trying to cheat you, or doesn't know what they're talking about.

[SearchRank]

Hi olahe,

If your site is brand new (not in any search engines yet) and you feel the need to submit, there are only three crawlers that you need to submit to - Google, FAST and Alta Vista.

Then you should submit to the top directories including Open Directory, JoeAnt, GoGuides, Gimpsy and the new Skaffe.

The only other major crawlers are Inktomi and Teoma and if these do not find your site after getting listed in the top directories, you can submit through their pay for inclusion programs.

I would advise against doing any type of automatic paid submission services though, especially those that boast that they will submit your site to "thousands" of search engines. Usually what you end up getting is a ton of spam. Most of the smaller engines out there get their results from the large crawlers anyway so one you are in the crawlers mentioned above, you should be good to go.

Good luck!