Search Engine Submissions YES or NO
Hi, Disney has released your favourite Duck onto the Internet. Now, here goes. I have been my own web (Ducks feet!) master for two years. I use a system called IBP - but I'm not involved and I am not advertising it. Other forums say submission to search engines is a total waste of time. Is it? I'm heavily into links, but not through farms, I don't link with competitors as I would not wish to be associated with them! I believe firmly in News flashes, update once a week. I believe in backlinks - but all forum guys and gals do. I believe in helping others to get their sites noticed. Our turnover in lending is £55million, and 70% of this comes in from my keywords. Not megatags neccessarily, but from page titles. I'm not asking for a revue, my site is so simple it sells itself. I back up my system by pay per click through Overture and there is a very good reason to look at that. All of Overures partners sell Broadband systems.So their advertising budgets make us money. I spend around £200 per month and generate around £3 millions in mortgages.I do not advertise with Google, I've found a way around that!
By using a combination of keywords, constantly changing to suit any news articles that appear on Google News updates, I can sit at my desk and listen to the phones ringing. I'm, open to critism, and I promise, I'll make you smile with my replies. We cannot all be at number one. Or can we?
Your new mate Daffy
eitemiller posted this at 15:00 — 15th October 2004.
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I totally like you game plan. If you ask me, submission to search engines (not directories) is a waste of time - PROVIDING that you are getting backlinks. If you get backlinks, you will be crawled. So what's the point of submitting to search engines? None. Waste of valuable time. Spend more time getting the quality backlinks that you described, submit your site into every dang directory you can find (providing the directory has spiderable links, etc) and run like the wind. You're right, not everyone can have a #1 page, but there is a lot of leftover traffic that can be caught with some few simple steps.
Good call about staying away from the link farms - waste of time. Also, if you swap links with other webmasters, I recommend you not calling that page "links.html" or anything similar to that. Also, swap with good quality websites, dont just swap a link for a link - your credibility is on the line, you know?
News articles have become one of my latest tools - I also am having good results with them.
kb posted this at 21:28 — 15th October 2004.
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I disagree...you don't need to pay for a SEO, but it would be a smart idea to submit for crawling for the main engines: Google, Yahoo, MSN, and...maybe...a smaller one like SearchBot or Altavista.
That way, you know they will get to you faster than through the links that you have on other pages. The links are good for PR, and word of mouth, but a general search is sometimes more effective.
AyntRyte posted this at 23:17 — 15th October 2004.
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Joined: Jun 2004
It could be a wash either way. Google says that by the time they get around to spidering a submitted URL, Googlebot may have spidered the site anyway. But they also say that they won't penalize you making that submission (or for multiple submissions.) So, there's no harm in taking 5 seconds to fill out the submission.
\\// Robert
The grass is always greener on the other side -- but that's because they use more manure.
DaffyDuck posted this at 09:54 — 16th October 2004.
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Joined: Oct 2004
Thanks for all the input, the one thing I love about IBP is the facility to check on my positions at least once a month, I can do it everyday but that would be spamming. I can search 380 search engines on my keywords and know precisely where I am. I also do some very minor ppc on the USA Engines, Mamma, 7 search, I paid Ask $40 two years ago and I am still number one on Ask Jeeves (UK) under my main keyword'Right to Buy'. News reports are definetly the 'in' thing. By using Google News Reports you can get newspaper reports on whatever subject matter you are into, then you get the opportunity to feed your input to that newspaper, hopefully with your http:// - these reports arrive daily and so far One major UK newspaper (News of the World) have recommended us. Free publicity is worth a heck of a lot!
Look out it's Daffy --------------------DUCK!
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