Search engines crawl the web every few weeks (or months) looking for websites to index. Here's how it works: * Search engines start at one website with a large number of outbound links (usually a directory) * They follow every link they come across, indexing each page they arrive at * Once a page has been indexed they follow all the links from that page * And so on until there are no more links to follow Unless today is your very first day on the Internet, you might have heard that inbound links into a website are extremely important in establishing its search engine ranking. If a search engine can't find you by itself through crawling the web, then your website doesn't have any inbound links. If so, you'll never achieve a decent search engine ranking so what's the point in registering?
Search engine submission is completely worhtless and a really outdated technique! Get backlinks to your website and spiders will come on their own.
dir. submission is not waste of time, instead high quality pr dir submission will help u a lot in terms of ranking, backlink.
I agree...there is no benefit to submit the site in SE. Natural site optimization techniques are enough to crawl your site by search engines.
C'mon guys people don't submit to the SE's anymore, if you do then you are wasting your time. This is for the big ones always, you may want to use software to do some autosubmits to the smaller & local ones.
there's even a school of though that suggests if you DO submit, most se's immediately suspect you are 'up to something'!!!
Interesting idea. Our opinion, as we wrote on our website is, "Submitting a page directly to the search engine, we consider, is telling the spider that your website is not popular and/or interesting enough to have other indexed sites talking and/or linking to you." At least that is what we would think if we were search engine spiders.
Lucky I forgot to submit my sites to the searchengines then I was able to get a number of sites to Google's first page in about a week (new sites) by just submitting them to pingler.com. Of course they weren't that competitive, but they showed up. In fact one I completely forgot about while I waited for it to propagate and didn't add any content and when I noticed it was on page 2 of Google. Obviously I had never even submitted that one anywhere yet.
Submitting your site to SE is pointless. Robots will crawl your site so don't bother to waste your time.