Why you should NOT submit your site on Search Engines
Skip | 08 December, 2005 17:20
Before going any further, you have to know what the
difference between a search engine and directory is. Here is a brief definition.
Main difference between a search engine and a directory lies in how websites get entered into their index or list. People submit their sites to the directories, which are reviewed by human editors, generally speaking.
Think of the directories as collections of Internet sites organized by subject. Think of directories being like your local telephone directory. Search engines works by sending out a spider to fetch as many documents as possible. Another program, called an indexer, then reads these documents and creates an index based on the words contained in each document.
Let’s see why you should not submit your site to the Search Engines.
More than 90% of the search engines traffic comes from three major search engines Google, Yahoo! and MSN.
You can see many ads on the Web that look like this: “submit your site to 200,000 search engines”.
Submitting your site on hundreds of thousands search engines wouldn’t help and is simply not worth the expense. Save your money as you would do when you see ad’s like: “loose weight while you sleep”.
The three big name search engines provide results for many other search engines, and if you are indexed on these three search engines, your site will be listed on many other search engines too.
Altavista for example show results from the Yahoo! index. Rankings are not all the same, because the algorithm (the method that determines results rankings) is different but index is the same. If your site is new and is listed on Yahoo but not on Altavista, be patient and do nothing.
Altavista will show your site when they update their index from yahoo. AOL (America On Line) and Netscape use the Google index. They additionally receive listings from DMOZ.
So called “Meta” search engines like DogPile or Metacrawler show results from Google and Yahoo among of others. These search engines actually search the top search engines and show combined results.
If your site is not new, there is a chance that search engines spiders already found your website and indexed it. So before you do anything, check if your site already listed, even if you did not submit your site on any search engine.
But what you should do if your site is just uploaded and brand new?
As we already explain search engines are equipped with spiders which will find your site. All you need is to submit your site in Directories, and search engines spiders will find your link and your site will be indexed. But be sure to provide enough “food” (document text, or also known as "content") for the spiders. That is, submit your site in enough directories, and you will make that process shorter.
While submission to the search engines is wasting your time, submission to the directories is not. You will benefit from submitting your site to directories, not only because search engines will find your link there and index your site, but you will also increase your link popularity. Search engines consider each link that is pointing to your site as a one kind of vote and give the link a “credit” for each “vote”.
That’s why you should submit your site to as many directories you can. However, don’t expect bulk traffic from the directories. Even the biggest directories like Yahoo! or DMOZ are not able to deliver load of traffic.
From the user side of the picture, traffic delivered though the directories is usually quality traffic, because these people are browsing to find products or services.
Submitting your site more than once on search engines might slow down indexing time, so don't do it. And especially don't buy "search engine submission" services - again, you want alink to your site to be found by a search engine spider.
All major search engines say’s in their submission guidelines that you should submit your site manually, but that is a misnomer - do NOT submit your website to the search engines, but instead, get inbound links to your website and the search engines will value that more and index you quicker.
Optimization of your website might be one of your best investment ever, if is planed and implemented right.
Main difference between a search engine and a directory lies in how websites get entered into their index or list. People submit their sites to the directories, which are reviewed by human editors, generally speaking.
Think of the directories as collections of Internet sites organized by subject. Think of directories being like your local telephone directory. Search engines works by sending out a spider to fetch as many documents as possible. Another program, called an indexer, then reads these documents and creates an index based on the words contained in each document.
Let’s see why you should not submit your site to the Search Engines.
More than 90% of the search engines traffic comes from three major search engines Google, Yahoo! and MSN.
You can see many ads on the Web that look like this: “submit your site to 200,000 search engines”.
Submitting your site on hundreds of thousands search engines wouldn’t help and is simply not worth the expense. Save your money as you would do when you see ad’s like: “loose weight while you sleep”.
The three big name search engines provide results for many other search engines, and if you are indexed on these three search engines, your site will be listed on many other search engines too.
Altavista for example show results from the Yahoo! index. Rankings are not all the same, because the algorithm (the method that determines results rankings) is different but index is the same. If your site is new and is listed on Yahoo but not on Altavista, be patient and do nothing.
Altavista will show your site when they update their index from yahoo. AOL (America On Line) and Netscape use the Google index. They additionally receive listings from DMOZ.
So called “Meta” search engines like DogPile or Metacrawler show results from Google and Yahoo among of others. These search engines actually search the top search engines and show combined results.
If your site is not new, there is a chance that search engines spiders already found your website and indexed it. So before you do anything, check if your site already listed, even if you did not submit your site on any search engine.
But what you should do if your site is just uploaded and brand new?
As we already explain search engines are equipped with spiders which will find your site. All you need is to submit your site in Directories, and search engines spiders will find your link and your site will be indexed. But be sure to provide enough “food” (document text, or also known as "content") for the spiders. That is, submit your site in enough directories, and you will make that process shorter.
While submission to the search engines is wasting your time, submission to the directories is not. You will benefit from submitting your site to directories, not only because search engines will find your link there and index your site, but you will also increase your link popularity. Search engines consider each link that is pointing to your site as a one kind of vote and give the link a “credit” for each “vote”.
That’s why you should submit your site to as many directories you can. However, don’t expect bulk traffic from the directories. Even the biggest directories like Yahoo! or DMOZ are not able to deliver load of traffic.
From the user side of the picture, traffic delivered though the directories is usually quality traffic, because these people are browsing to find products or services.
Submitting your site more than once on search engines might slow down indexing time, so don't do it. And especially don't buy "search engine submission" services - again, you want alink to your site to be found by a search engine spider.
All major search engines say’s in their submission guidelines that you should submit your site manually, but that is a misnomer - do NOT submit your website to the search engines, but instead, get inbound links to your website and the search engines will value that more and index you quicker.
Optimization of your website might be one of your best investment ever, if is planed and implemented right.
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