I am confident that at some point you have received an email offering to submit your website to thousands of search engines for the low low cost of £79. The value may change but the message doesn’t - we can get you more traffic for very little money.
So what’s the problem?
You simply don’t need to be listed in a thousand search engines. Most people 99.9% in the UK use around 50 search engines between them. Out of that top 50 Google, Yahoo any MSN receive 85% of the searches. Knowing that where would you invest your time?
In addition some of the less scupulous mass submission services simply take your money and then generate spam email, which will give you know benefit and kill off your inbox!
Want better advice?
Have a look at this post search engine submission
Customers will invariably find your website through using a Search Engine, such as Google, MSN, or Yahoo. Submission is basically the process of getting your website listed in such search engines.
Google, Yahoo and MSN account for over 85% of the searches in the UK – with Google taking around 50%. If a listed website links to your website then your website will be found automatically… eventually. By entering your website URL (the full address including the http://) into the submission page you can speed that process up greatly. Simple eh?
For more information, take a look at
Google.co.uk - http://www.google.com/addurl/
MSN.co.uk - http://search.msn.com/docs/submit.aspx
Yahoo.co.uk - http://search.yahoo.com/info/submit.html
What else can I do?
Submit your website to the Open Directory Project http://www.dmoz.org. This not only improves your ranking in Google but feeds many other search engines and directories although you must be careful not to submit to the ODP too often (every 3 months at the most), as this may actually impact on your listing.
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