Beginners guide to subtmitting to search engines.

[jammer20002]

Can someone recommend a 'beginners guide to subtmitting to search engines'?

Searching on search engines gives back a millions different results.

AND... can someone tell me what these search engine submission companies do that's different and how can they justify their costs?

Thanks.


Jam

[Aronya1]

IMHO:
Manually submit your site to Yahoo, Google, DMOZ. Everyone else will pick you up from there.

Search engine submission companies will submit your site to everybody & his brother's search engines. Not necessary, and possibly not wise - it could work against your rankings in the big boys' indexes. If you accept that statement as true, then those companies can't justify their costs if they charge more than $25.

Re: a 'beginners guide to subtmitting to search engines'. Just put together a short (roughly 20-25 words) description of your site, and use that to submit. There will be simple instructions on each index's site to guide you thru the process.

[jammer20002]

Thanks for the reply.
Simple as though it was... the advice given was really useful.

:)

[Aronya1]

You're welcome. I wholeheartedly subscribe to the KISS concept.

[matto]

Hi Jammer

i paid £200 for express inclusion in Yahoo and submitted to Google manually - most search engines have picked me up - beware of dmoz tho, while it's definately a must to submit it can take a little while depending on the category you choose. It's important to read the submission guidelines as some editors run a tight ship - 'if you don't care about the quality of your submission then why should they' is the moto.

Best of luck
Matto

[vinoth]

In search engine submission,

donot spend Money in submitting to lot of sites,


Quick and Free,

Submit to YAHOO.COM, GOOGLE.COM , KHOJ.COM ,


Most of the People Search in these sites alone,

[Aronya1]

Originally posted by vinoth
In search engine submission,

donot spend Money in submitting to lot of sites,


Quick and Free,

Submit to YAHOO.COM, GOOGLE.COM , KHOJ.COM ,


Most of the People Search in these sites alone,

There's an echo in here...

Originally posted by Aronya1
Manually submit your site to Yahoo, Google, DMOZ. Everyone else will pick you up from there.

Side note: KHOJ.COM is a search engine for India. I just don't think most people are going to be using it. Nor is it likely to be a prime source of new listings for the major search engines.