How much submission is too much

[JohnMaggio]

I wanted to hear it from you guys.

I have submitted to all the majors once. Home page only. It has been a year. (which i know isnt that long in the big picture)

How many times a year should i be submitting, and should i do more than my home page.

Im in a highly compeditive market, PPC is doing me fine, but i need some organic to offset the Cost per Conversion.

[Carlos Chacón]

I wanted to hear it from you guys.

I have submitted to all the majors once. Home page only. It has been a year. (which i know isnt that long in the big picture)

How many times a year should i be submitting, and should i do more than my home page.

Im in a highly compeditive market, PPC is doing me fine, but i need some organic to offset the Cost per Conversion.
Hello,
Based on my own experience, the Submission is not necessary anymore. Search engines have been improving to get faster and smart. So, boots are visiting the web constantly. So, do not worry to submit your home page or the entire website anymore.
The unusual part is about the submitting you did a year ago.
You should get indexed for now and be getting some organic positions (on a SEO website of course).

Did your page get indexed by the search engines already?

[pleeker]

As long as you have links to your site from other sites that are already in the search engine's index, there's no need to submit. All the major SEs find sites via their regular crawl. The quality of the link to your site will determine how soon you get added -- if you have a link to your site from a quality site that gets crawled regularly, you'll be added more quickly.

Once you're in the index, re-submitting is a waste of time. Continue to add good quality content to your site. Keep your site updated regularly -- the more you update your site, the more often you can expect the crawlers to come back. (That won't happen right away, but it can happen over time if you stick with it.)

If you're not sure how many pages of your site have been indexed, go to the search engine and type

site:yourdomain.com

into the seach box, and the results will show you all the pages that the SE has indexed.

You can also keep an eye on your log files or web stats program to see how often the various bots are hitting your site.

HTH.

[JohnMaggio]

Ive been indexed, but need some improvement. I am in a highly compeditive industry, and need to move it on up.

[ewc21]

You have no problem with indexing so as pleeker said, submission is a waste of time.

It's been evident in web stats that submission to numerous small directories don't help generate traffic and would probably contribute very minimal in your search rankings.

I would say improving both on-page and off-page SEO process will help but still will not guarantee a much better placement than what you have now since you're in a competitive industry.

My advice is to develop more content (you mentioned submitting only homepage but I hope it does not mean you have very few pages). The more content you develop (with targeted keywords sprinkled on every page), the more it gives idea to search engines what your site is about. You cannot overdo SEO on a page with limited content.

[JohnMaggio]

I have about 250 pages. Just so you all know www.nbannapolis.com

any comments would be appreciated. I am triing my best to do some SEO, and also increase conversion by being shopper friendly.

[pleeker]

John - your home page is almost entirely graphics. You have a lot of other graphics-with-text across the rest of the site. Crawlers can't read the text on a graphic -- you really need to overhaul the site so that you have more text, much less graphics.

Add a Description tag to your sub-pages (Men's Walking, Golf, etc.).

Develop more original content on your site to supplement all the sales pages. Like the cross-training page -- I've heard that term a million times, but to this day I have no idea if I should be buying cross-training shoes. That first page should answer that question (and others), like the "Walking Shoes" page does.

Add new content (non-sales stuff) on a regular basis.

There are other, very minor things (like not using Front Page -- too much code bloat), but the above are the first things that stand out on a quick browse through the site.

Good luck.