Search Engine Submissions
Submit your website automatically and save yourself time
Search engine submissions can be an arduous and annoying process. The products reviewed in this section of our website are tools for simplifying the task, allowing you to submit your website and manage your search engine submissions to various search engines automatically. A decent search engine submitter should also allow you to simply submit your websites to directory/portal sites and paid inclusion (i.e. pay per click) engines.
Search engine submitters save you the tiresome task of entering in the same search engine submissions over and over again by providing forms or submission templates that you fill out just once with your contact info and information relevant to the site being listed. The submitter will then automatically submit your websites accordingly, saving your hours of time, energy, and muscle-ache.
Most submitters will give you the option of running automatic or manual search engine submissions. Automatic search engine submissions usually allow you to submit your website and listings to all the search engines (major and minor) in one fell swoop. Manual search engine submissions allow you to pick and choose what search engines to submit your website to and which ones you don’t.
Search engine submitters should always come with the ability to track the results of your search engine submissions and print and/or export summary reports of which submissions are pending, which were refused/denied, and which were accepted.
They should also come with some sort of scheduler that allows you to set up in advance when you will submit your website and resubmit your website information. This can happen at designated dates and times or at regular intervals.
Search Engine Submitters cannot be search engine spammers (an obvious observation, we hope). The tool that manages your search engine submissions needs to stay up to speed with the constantly changing policies of each search engine – for they’re not all the same. Disregarding one engine’s rules could mean you won’t be able to submit your website ever again. A submitter needs to know, for example, how often an engine will accept search engine submissions of a listing that has yet to appear in their results pages and with what kind of a gap between resubmissions. Submit too often and you’ll be banned. If you don’t submit your website enough, you’ll never be listed (or at least not where anybody’s going to see you).
Pause and Resume is a convenient tool that’s worth having, should you need to interrupt a large search engine submissions project for one reason or another without requiring you start over.
Search engine submitters save you the tiresome task of entering in the same search engine submissions over and over again by providing forms or submission templates that you fill out just once with your contact info and information relevant to the site being listed. The submitter will then automatically submit your websites accordingly, saving your hours of time, energy, and muscle-ache.
Most submitters will give you the option of running automatic or manual search engine submissions. Automatic search engine submissions usually allow you to submit your website and listings to all the search engines (major and minor) in one fell swoop. Manual search engine submissions allow you to pick and choose what search engines to submit your website to and which ones you don’t.
Search engine submitters should always come with the ability to track the results of your search engine submissions and print and/or export summary reports of which submissions are pending, which were refused/denied, and which were accepted.
They should also come with some sort of scheduler that allows you to set up in advance when you will submit your website and resubmit your website information. This can happen at designated dates and times or at regular intervals.
Search Engine Submitters cannot be search engine spammers (an obvious observation, we hope). The tool that manages your search engine submissions needs to stay up to speed with the constantly changing policies of each search engine – for they’re not all the same. Disregarding one engine’s rules could mean you won’t be able to submit your website ever again. A submitter needs to know, for example, how often an engine will accept search engine submissions of a listing that has yet to appear in their results pages and with what kind of a gap between resubmissions. Submit too often and you’ll be banned. If you don’t submit your website enough, you’ll never be listed (or at least not where anybody’s going to see you).
Pause and Resume is a convenient tool that’s worth having, should you need to interrupt a large search engine submissions project for one reason or another without requiring you start over.
A Multithreading feature is also particularly useful, as it cuts down considerably on the amount of time and capacity (i.e. bandwidth) that it takes to send out your listings or submit your website to scores of engines and directories.
Other advanced features to look for in search engine submissions include the ability to identify which category/categories and subcategory/categories to submit your website to, and a tool for tracking the progression of each listing on each search engine’s ranking. Some submitters will also have a keyword tool included for optimizing how and where you make your search engine submissions.
Pricing for search engine submitters is usually based on how many campaigns and how many domains you’re allowed to have, as well as how many other advanced features are included with each plan.
When comparing ways to submit your website, don’t just look at how many engines are in the product’s “arsenal”: most of the search engines out there won’t get you a whit of traffic anyway. What you want is a reliable way of cutting out all the tedious effort of search engine submissions and resubmissions to the “majors” each time your pages change (which should be quite often if you’re to remain competitive). After you submit your website, you’ll need to track and analyze the results – most especially, your rankings – of your search engine submissions.
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