Re: Search Engine Submission

From: Robert J. Woodhead <trebor_at_animeigo.com>
Date: Thu 4 Nov 1999 07:00:06 -0500

DOREEN BOWERS WROTE:
> I was wondering if anyone can help with understanding the
> promoting process to submitting your site to search engines.
> I have been submitting my site to search engines for a few
> months now and I am not sure if that is all I should do or
> should I be submitting to the search engines every day or
> weekly to get results. Would that be considered spamming?
> Should I be submitting each of my pages that link to my main
> page or should I just submit the one main page daily?
> Anyones help would be greatly appreciated.

OK, the short answer. Submit your main url and all your
important sub-urls to the Search Engines (ie: Altavista,
Hotbot) once a month. Submit your main url to all the
Indexes (ie: Yahoo, Snap) once -- period. With the major
Indexes, wait a month, then if you don't get in, resubmit.
With the 2nd-tier Indexes, don't bother resubmitting.
Search engines and 2nd-tier indexes can be autosubmitted,
major indexes (Yahoo, Snap, LookSmart, Open Directory,
About, a few others) MUST be done manually for best
results.

For more information:

http://selfpromotion.com/pageprep.t - a new article I just
wrote on preparing your pages for the search engines so
they rank better. Goes into issues like keyphrase selection
as well.

http://selfpromotion.com/yahootips.t - the infamous "how to
get into Yahoo" article, it also includes tips on About.com
and Open Directory. I have to update it today to reflect
changes in Open Directory.

Best,R

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Received on Thu Nov 04 1999 - 06:00:06 CST