1. No. That is the position to which Danny tried eventually to retreat but it is NOT what he said -- he specifically and repeatedly said that Google would penalize you for using the manual Submit option. 2. Why would you or anyone else think these two options -- manual submission and link building -- are mutually exclusive?
Well I heard someone say that Google penalizes you for using the Submit feature. Has anyone else heard that before? What are your thoughts?
this thread has been out of control for a while now... i can't believe it's still going... (on that note we should all stop bumping it)
I was hoping someone could share some experience on the matter. I do know that it makes a difference what kind of site Google discovers a brandnew site thru. However I don't have any data on the submit url feature since nobody I know has been using it (at least not in a few years).
You're joking, right? Please tell me you're joking. Are you seriously saying that you think there's a possibility that Google penalizes people who use the Google Submit button? If that's true, Toots, you are in worse shape than even I believed.
Unbelieveable! I take it from that response that you weren't joking. That's pathetic. "site tutor" indeed. I wouldn't let you tutor a hamster.
Minnie, if you stopped ranting and raving like a madman, you may actually learn a little bit about seo.
From the google page :http://www.google.com/webmasters/facts.html Fiction: A website will be removed from Google's index if it's "over-submitted." Fact: We don't require submission nor do we penalize sites for "over-submission." You're free to submit as often as you wish. However, given the nature of our inclusion process, your time is better spent improving the content and links of your site.
Exactly, iskandar. Anyone who really believes Google wants to lure you into using its available manual submission option just so it can penalize you is living in a fantasy world of some sort.
Actually, that's one of the things I like about Google - they don't make a habit of saying one thing and doing another - they're more likely to just not say anything.
Did you know that spending lots of time in forums will potentially hurt your rankings? This is true, you are all here just ranting and shooting theories to the air while the others (the ones that make the big bucks) are building content, trying adsense placement, searching for new products to sell, making studies about their visitors, etc etc etc...