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Welcome to part seven in this ten-part search engine positioning series. Last week we discussed the importance of human testing. In part seven we will cover the best practices of website submissions, where to submit your website to, and how to do so.
With services offering to help you get more traffic and higher search engine positioning by submitting your website to "18 Bazillion Search Engines For Just $19.95 Per Month!" and other such claims, there has grown much confusion around website submissions. In this article we will clear up many of the misconceptions around submitting your website and may even save you "Just $19.95 Per Month!" in the process. Over this series we will cover the ten key aspects to a solid search engine positioning campaign. The Ten Steps We Will Go Through Are:
Good advice as I'm sure Google has their website submissions taken care of. Just because you receive such an email, doesn't mean that you're missing out on anything. Let's first look at a breakdown of which engines are responsible for which traffic. According to research the major search engines are responsible for the following percentages of traffic as of June 2004: Google - 41.6% Yahoo - 31.5% MSN - 27.4% (MSN draws their results from Yahoo!/Overture) AOL - 13.6% (AOL draws their results from Google) Ask Jeeves - 7.0% Lycos - 3.7% Netscape - 3.0% (Netscape draws their results from Google) AltaVista - 2.7% (AltaVista draws the Yahoo!/Overture) Source: Neilson/NetratingsNote: These numbers total over 100% as people may use multiple search engines if they don't find the information they are looking for at the first one they try. So what does this tell us? This tells us that the very vast majority of search engine traffic does not come from many thousands of search engines but rather, relatively few. This would lead to the obvious questions, "Is it worth paying to be submitted to thousands of search engines?" The real answer, "No." Then How Do I Submit My Own Website? Automated search engine submission systems simply access the existing and readily accessible "Add URL" pages of the search engines and automatically submit your site. You can do this yourself simply by visiting the search engines and submitting through these same pages. To simplify this process you can visit the "search engines" page on the Beanstalk Search Engine Positioning website where we link directly to the submissions pages of the major engines. But What About The Other Engines? Surely They Provide Some Traffic? Quite honestly, they may. You may get a visitor or two. Is it worth $19.95/mth or some such amount? No. You can get a better dollar/visitor ratio on any of the many PPC engines out there. An additional point to note is that you may want to actually visit some of the lists of engines on the sites offering these services to you. You will discover a couple of important facts:"Dear google.com,
I visited your website and noticed that you are not listed in most of the major search engines and directories..." Reserve the same skepticism for unsolicited email about search engines as you do for "burn fat at night" diet pills or requests to help transfer funds from deposed dictators.
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