Search Engine Submission – Putting Myths to Rest!

There are a lot of people making noise about search engine submission these days. In this blog post, I will present you with some of the most common myths that pertain to search engine submission.

# 1: In order to get your website indexed by the search engines, you need to submit your website to the search engine.
Most of the search engines will follow links from a website to find new content. If you have backlinks from other websites and that site is indexed by the search engines, you will get listed eventually.

#2: You must periodically resubmit your website because your content has changed.
As a rule, your website will remain in a search engine index, unless there is a good reason to remove you. However, there are some factors that could get you removed.

A. Your site no longer exists.
B. Your site is unavailable for a long period of time.

Search engines, crawl websites periodically to find new content. The content is evaluated and search engine rankings are then adjusted accordingly.

#3: If you resubmit your website it improves your rankings in the search engines.
Resubmitting your website, has no impact on your ranking in the search engines. However, if you submit too often, you could actually get flagged as a spammer!

#4: Every page in your website has to be submitted to the search engines.
When search engines crawl your website, they will follow the internal links you have within it. If your site structure is search engine friendly, all of your website pages will get indexed eventually.

#5: Paid Inclusions boost your website rankings.
There is no such evidence that a paid inclusion will boost your search engine rankings. Further more, search engines such as, Google, Bing and Yahoo make no claims on such matters. However, a paid inclusion will speed up the process of getting listed in the search engines in a matter of hours!

Additional thoughts:
Make sure that your backlinks contain the do-follow tag so that the search engines will follow the link, and index your site. Web directories are still a good choice for building backlinks. However, they should be quality/established directories with authority status. Furthermore, 10 quality backlinks are more effective than tons of low quality unrelated backlinks.
Make sure that you host your website on a reliable server to avoid down time and connectivity issues. If your website is unavailable this can have a negative effect on your search engine rankings.

If you are looking to submit your site to a established/quality directory with authority status, checkout the Madmouse Web Directory.

Hope this blog post was helpful to you, "Search Engine Submission - Putting the Myths to Rest!"

Spunky Jones.

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