Is search engine submission "worth it"???

Dont bother submitting to search engines. If you have minimal backlinks the spiders will find your site and it will get indexed. Invest the time you save on creating good content that will provide the backlinks you need to get good organic positions and that will drive traffic to your website.

If you submit to Yahoo directory, be prepared to pay a yearly fee forever. Better to get picked up by the search engine for free.

Hi Brooke,

Submitting your site to the search engines will typically speed up the time it takes for Google to find all your sites content. I would suggest you create a free sitemap http://www.xml-sitemaps.com and submit it to http://www.google.com/webmasters You'll get lots of useful info in there about how your site has been indexed and improvements you can make. So, submitting your site won't get you a better ranking but it will give you some more info to help you work on your rankings over time.
Good luck,
James

Hi,
It will depend on few factors:
1) Are you providing a static information and only 'to be found'?
2) Are you publishing dynamic content (blogs, articles, whitepapers etc) in your website and using it to build market gravity?

If 2, submitting to search engines will help. In any case the popular CMS & blog engines have plugins which will generate the sitemap (in xml) and ping to search engines (google, bing, yahoo) whenever the content changes. Since it is one time activity from your end, it is better to do it. When the traffic builds, this gives a way for search engines (esp google) to display site links in your website.

But that (submitting sitemap) doesn't bring in any traffic. Traffic comes from quality content and comments & articles on related sites.

You get a quick spike at the top and then if you aren't strong in other SEO points, you drop quickly.

The one thing never to do is use one of the submission services that promises to submit you to 1000s of search engines. Instant spam hell. Listen to the experts above. You only need one link to you that Google sees for it to find you.

There are lots of ways to get better positioning and subsequently traffic. Considering where your are in your business and quest for exposure you might benefit from the following article.

http://www.b2cmarketinginsider.com/public-relations/pr-in-a-social-world-01271

Excellent discussion, Today one of my friend told me that search engine optimisation is not needed any more. Search engines are changing their strategy to rank website.
For the sake arguments if I want start a SEO company to provide SEO services is it worth starting a company?

It takes about 3 minutes each to really register your site with the search engines that matter (Google, Yahoo!, Bing). I would absolutely invest that 10 minutes.

DO NOT SUBMIT to search engines. (Sorry about the shouting).

Part of the ranking process is Page Rank and submitting your site to the search engines eliminates any PR that you would get from a link posted on another site.

Please see http://dotcom-productions.com/08/article_info.php?articles_id=32 for more info on this.

All you really need is one link on a site that is in Google's index.
If you use Google's submission service for a new site, be prepared to spend a few months in their sandbox.

Yahoo is a directory and submitting to directories is good.

Best,
Reg

it is not. same for link building.

I submitted a sales page to Google, Yahoo and Bing Search engines two weeks ago, in less than a week on one keyword it was ranked #4 on Yahoo's 1st page and #3 on Bing's, on Google it is still on page 30.

I have been doing this for about a year and am still learning, but for a few minutes work it is certainly worth it

Victor Rampen

Hi Brook,

My Lecture said that "It's worth". I take e-commerce class, and when we talked about SEO, we talked about "submitting" our URL to search engines. I tried it once to my 'simulation-site' and it works. It depends on the purpose of the site. In my case, to commerce products on my site, then "submitting" is one of those thousands way to higher traffic.

And like others said, "Backlinks" is the other way. I don't have any idea what's best, but in my 'simulation-site' i do not have links. It's hard to get "backlinks".

Hi Brooke,

You don't need to submit to search engine at all, infact you can pursue other strategies to get your new website indexed much more quicker. I suggest you look into social bookmarking through digg, mixx, stumbleupon and the likes of yelp.com.

I can put you in touch with someone who can manually/ethically generate 500 social bookmarks in 48 hours. All the bookmarks are going to be actual people and not some random spamming software.

Submitting a web page is just one step in getting a high Page rank.
On-page and off-page optimization has to be done, but in the end you just have to work on it, know your goals, be focused and do something each and everyday that will move you closer to your goal.
Asking for advice from experts is good, but you must weigh and analyze it yourself, because you will be responsible for the outcome (good or bad) but you will also reap the reward.

We are in lot of trouble economically because we listened to experts that advised Wall Street that CDOs (Collateralized Debt Obligations) are good for the economy.
Standard & Poor and Moody's gave AAA rating to the financial instruments, AIG created insurance instruments to cover loses if the instruments defaulted, which they did. All the experts made lots of money. You and me as taxpayers had to bail them out.

The lesson learned, learn as much as you can, read "experts" advice but in the end you must make an intelligent decision on your own, if it is a mistake just learn from it.

By the way my second web site I ever launched last December was ranked #8 in one week on Google, in June it was #3. Yahoo and Bing ranked it at #2 & 3.
I used Market Samurai for analyzes and learned SEO techniques by participating in the 30 Day Challenge, a month long training program that is offered for free by Ed Dale from Australia.

You can still join the current program in progress (also free) that is structured in a different way (one week on - one week off)
I still have to learn a lot, but it is fun.

Best of luck!

Victor

No it's not. Instead just build a website and try to get your partners to mention you on yours.

The way search works, is that it finds you via other links.