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Search Engine Submission Service

A good search engine submission service can save you hundreds of hours getting your web site submitted to all the relevant search engines ...

You have built your company, printed out your PR materials, designed and created your website, and now are ready for the next step—finding a search engine submission service.  You could go the other way, go solo, submitting your site URLS (all separate pages) to the hundreds of search engines, major indexes, and specialty indexes…if you have a few hundred hours to blow.  But if, as most of us are, you are busy beyond recognition of what it means to sit down, take time, read, research, and submit, the ideal way to go is the search engine submission service. 

Here’s what that very SE submission service, the RIGHT one, will do for you:

A GOOD SEARCH ENGINE SUBMISSION SERVICE SUBMITS YOUR SITE to ALL SEARCH ENGINES

The SE service will have an automated submission tool which will submit your site to the major search engines.  Keep in mind that this would take you months, likely, and will still take time to get you listed by the search engines (a few weeks to a few months, depending), but your site will appear on most if not all of the following:

Alexa
AltaVista
Apinet
Big Finder
Entire Web
Exact Seek
Google
Info Tiger
Mixcat
Search It
Search Sight
Search Warp
Subjex
Surf Gopher
Tower Search
Moodule
National Directory
Quest Finder
What U Seek
Yahoo!

A GOOD SEARCH ENGINE SUBMISSION SERVICE SUBMITS YOUR SITE to ALL MAJOR INDEXES/INDICES

The SE service will not use an automated submission tool which will submit your site to the major search indexes, per se, but will, once you take a very few minutes to decide, will submit for you those you indicate.  These include the following:

DMOZ/ODP [Open Directory Project]
Emporium Directory
Jayde
MSN
Search King
Splat!
Turnpike 
Yahoo! [All the Web]

A GOOD SEARCH ENGINE SUBMISSION SERVICE SUBMITS YOUR SITE to SPECIALTY INDEXES and OPEN INDEXES

The SE service will have some degree of capabilities to submit your site to those indexes that specialize in the same areas as or areas relevant to the content of your site/the products and/or services you offer at your site.

For example, if you are a freelance writer, offering ebooks and writing and editing services, you might have the search engine submission service list you at bluetreebooks.com, write it up, and other relevant indexes.

So, what does it mean to use an SE submission service and how do you know which one to go with?

In your research effort, read the guidelines and fine print disclaimers.  For instance, Yahoo! Accepts free submissions, but those free submissions are prohibited in the commercial directory section, which costs. [Free submission is restricted to non-commercial sites.]

Also important to pay attention to…are those search engine submission services that GUARANTEE number one ranking.  Submission services just submit (do all the grunt work so you don’t have to); they do not have any control over acceptance of your site, ranking statistics, or any other such omnipotent, or god-like, promises.  In fact, if you ignore careful investigation, such services may offer keyword and other manipulation that will instead get you black-balled by the top search engines.

So, try a professional service that is up front, efficient, and effective in helping you do what would otherwise take repeated and timely effort on your part (as you have to submit your site/pages on a recurring basis, staying fresh and updated every few months, that is).

Consider the following service, keeping in mind this writer has NO affiliation or investment in it…besides having used the service with great results:

Selfpromotion.com is a premier service.  As you can probably tell by the name, you do some of the work, too.  That is, you register with Tooter (selfpromotion.com), you set up your profile and check the engines and indexes you want to submit to, and tooter does the rest.

If you are satisfied, you “donate” to the brains behind the service, Robert Woodhead (who is clear, concise, exacting, knowledgeable, and funny as all get out).

I am almost embarrassed to admit I sent a piddly ten dollars (as a new freelancer still building…), but will now return as Woodhead has done for me and so many others every few months, and send some more thank-you money.

A good search engine submission service is hard to find and should be revered!

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