search engine submission

[whoknows361]

Hey guys... as you all are more experts than I... I have a client who wants their website submitted by a company for a year long period. What companies do you guys think are reliable and affordable for this type of job?

Thanks for the feedback in advance.

Jonathan

 

[ChrisHirst]

absolutely none of them.
There is absolutely no need to submit anything to search engines. If you pay for this service you may as well take your money and throw it on a bonfire. It is a useless and pointless exercise.

You submit ONCE to directories and the SEs will find you from there

Chris.

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So long, and thanks for all the fish.

 

[ChrisHunt]

I don't think there's any harm in taking 15 minutes to submit your site to Google, MSN and Yahoo, but there's no point in paying somebody else to do it (unless it's me... )

-- Chris Hunt
Webmaster & Tragedian
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[johnwm]

... hence my reply in thread248-1163647!

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[whoknows361]

What about the fact that these companies submit to like 1500 search engines. I know they aren't the major ones - but isn't the end result a little wider customer base?

What in your opinion is the best thing to do? Only submit to the major three?

 

[BabyJeffy]

1500 search engines? *lol* Maybe 5 search engines and 1495 junk farms that nobody knows about.

Google = 37.3%
Yahoo! = 29.7%
MSN = 15.8%
AOL = 9.6%
Ask Jeeves = 6.0%
(Source: ComScore Media Metrix, October 2005)

That covers 98.4% of the search engine market. If you submit to those search engines (and I do believe all offer a manual submission process) and you submit to the DMOZ directory, then you are done. There is no need to bother with the 1495 other dodgy link farms masquerading as search engines.

If you are worrying about "a little wider customer base" you are wasting your efforts chasing it by search engine submissions.

Another analogy. Do you build your sites to work in Safari? Opera? These browsers represent more than 1.6% of the browser market - but do you bother? Spend your time building better support for these browsers and spend time getting the quality of your site content up to speed (and work on adopting web standards) and you will get better results than submitting to these search engine fakes.

You want to focus on conversion rates... not hit rates anyway.

Cheers,
Jeff

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[ChrisHirst]

only a couple of questions to ask yourself.

Have you ever heard of or used any of these 1500 "search engines"

Has anyone you know, ever heard of or used any of these 1500 "search engines"

You don't even submit to the "big three"

But I suspect the answer isn't what you wanted, so carry on and do let us know in a years time how many sales this "investment" brings in.

Chris.

Indifference will be the downfall of mankind, but who cares?
Woo Hoo! the cobblers kids get new shoes.
People Counting Systems

So long, and thanks for all the fish.

 

[feherke]

Hi

Has anyone you know, ever heard of or used any of these 1500 "search engines"

Yes, some time ago I used a few. For hungarian and romanian context. This languages have letters with diacritics and documents usually use ISO 8859-2 charset. In older days the big search engines had problems searching those documents, but they evoluated. Now I prefer Google/Yahoo/Altavista for non-english searches too.

So my prediciton is that the other search engines are going to be less and less significant.

Jeff and Chris have right, do not bother with unknown engines. Do not think that all those 1500 search engines are generic. There are a lot of thematic and regional search engines and your site probably will be removed from their databases in no time.

Feherke.

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