Don’t Submit Your Website to Search Engines
I just want to jot down a quick post on a question that seems to be keep cropping up. It usually stems from new web sites who are approached by third party vendors or simply through owners/webmasters doing some quick research.
The question revolves around submitting your web site to the search engines. Should you do it and does it help?
The answer is no on both accounts.
No, you NEVER EVER want to hire someone to do this. They may make the claim that they'll submit your new web site to over 300+ web search engines. That's all fine and dandy if there were 300 worthy engines. In actuality there is ONE and maybe THREE. That's Google and Yahoo and Bing (MSN). Apart from that, unless you're looking at other languages/countries, that's the big three.
Second, you don't really need to SUBMIT to them since they've come along far enough with technology to find your web site on their own. They'll need help, however, the help they need can easily be produced using two strategies.
The first, if you have a blog, ensure you have the Google site you can ping and then after your first post Google will know about your web site, will come and spider you, and you're done.
The second point is one of the most important aspects of your web site: getting web links. One good web link will do the job to help Google find you and also encourage them to keep visiting after initial contact.
So don't fall for any of the 'submit to search engine' scams out there. Also, don't waste your time submitting yourself. Do spend time getting links and writing new content in your blog.
