|
| Web Development |
|
| eBusiness
Management |
|
| IT Management |
|
| Small
Business |
|
| IT Software |
|
|
Submission Frequency
By Dan Thies
Contributing Writer
Article Date: 12.12.02
Dear Dan,
How often should you submit your web site to the search engines? I received
an email from one SEO company that claims you should do this daily, within
the limits of the number of URL you are allowed to submit every day. Others
claim that this is abusive, pages should only be submitted when it is new or
modified.
If you do submit on some sort of cycle do you think this actually does any
good? If it does any good is it limited to certain search engines?
Regards,
Jordan Glogau
Preferred Health Resources
Dear Jordan,
Rather than beat a dead horse, I'll offer this link: http://www.insideoutmarketing.com/index.php?p=pages&pid=10
The only people who want you to submit all the time are the
submission services. The search engines certainly don't want
it, and they make submitting harder all the time. I don't submit
to the major search engines (Altavista,
FAST, Google,
Inktomi) at all. I let
them find me, by spending my time building up my site's incoming
links.
Submitting to minor search engines like Wisenut.com, foreign search engines
etc.
may be the only way that they'll find you, but submitting the same site more
than
once is a big waste of time. If you do submit, do it once, and just submit
your home
page.
Getting enough quality links from related websites is essential if you want
to get
your site found, and enjoy get good rankings. Google may crawl your site
when you
submit it, but it won't show up in real searches until they find links on
other sites that
point to you. The other search engines don't take such a hard line, but they
all treat
you better if your site has plenty of incoming links from related sites.
I wish you success.
About Dan:
Dan Thies has been helping his clients (and friends) promote
their web sites since 1996, and operates a successful online
publishing business. His latest book, 'Search Engine Optimization
Fast Start,' is available now at http://www.cannedbooks.com |
