You may have come across some of the many automated submission services before you found this site. You know the kind of thing - "we'll submit your site to 10,000 search engines for $10".
We don't use them. Why not?
Well, they just don't work very well. Ask yourself: what search engines do YOU use to find products or information?
If you're like the majority of people in the UK, you probably use Yahoo, MSN, Google, or Lycos, either in their UK-only versions, or the international flavour. Maybe you also use ask.co.uk, or a meta-search engine (one that lets you search several search engines at once) such as Vivisimo.com or Dogpile.
If you are fairly new to the internet, you may not have ventured much beyond the search tools offered by your Internet Service Provider, such as Freeserve or AOL Search. And the same applies to most English-speaking internet users. There are perhaps 20 search tools that are widely used in the English-speaking world - some of them aren't even 'search engines' - and most of them share a lot of the same information.
Presence at a few core search services - particularly Google, Yahoo, and MSN - will work its way through to many of the most popular search engines. This is the approach we take. Never subscribe to a service that 'regularly resubmits' your website to search engines. It will make no difference to your site at all.
So how do you do it then?
We focus on getting our submissions exactly right for the best results with the search engines that attract major traffic according to independent sources such as WebSideStory's StatMarket and Jupiter MMXI. We do most of our submissions by hand, using a range of paid and unpaid-for services.
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