Search Engine Submission

The natural progression is to first perform search engine optimization (SEO) on a website and then conduct search engine submission so that the search engines and directories will index the website and display the results when their visitors perform a search. In terms of SEO, however, manual submissions achieve better results and are less risky than automatic submissions.

The trouble with automatic submissions is that many of the major search engines will reject the submissions or even worse, penalize a website for automatic submissions. None of the top search engines, however, will penalize a website for manual submissions.

There are many software applications and free submission sites on the Internet to help those who do wish to submit automatically. A word of advice, though if you are dead set on automatic submissions - submit to the major search engines manually and save the automatic submissions for the smaller search engines and directories.

Be careful about paying a company who will submit your website to thousands of search engines and directories. First, you will be spending your hard-earned cash for this service. Second, you may not gain any traffic from this submission. Third, you may end up on a bunch of free-for-all (FFA) sites, link farms or banner farms and will be penalized by the major search engines for having your links on these sites.

Once again if you are dead set on submitting your website to some of the smaller search engines and directories, here are a couple of free resources below to help in this effort. Another word of caution, some places in these resources will submit your site to the major as well as minor search engines and directories. They generally have a feature were you can uncheck the SE's that you don't wish to submit to, so it is best to find out first where your site will be submitted, uncheck the major search engines, and send away.

Search Engines Worldwide - just click on the Free Submit link on the right panel and you will have a bunch of automated services to choose from. For country specific submission services, click on a country on the left panel.

AddMe - is a great site that let's you choose which search engine you would like to submit to, although this site does not submit to as many SE's as other sites.

Mega Search Engine Submitter - let you check and uncheck up to 50 search engines for automatic submission. Also validates that the search engines did or did not receive your url submission.