Search Engine Submission

[gbessoni]

I am looking at a SEO company that claims one of their 4 techniques is to submit my site to 800,000 search engines, at strategic times 2 times a month, by hand. The more important ones by hand, the rest automatically. They also want to create a page on their server, which they say is patent technology. DO either of these vague techniques help me?

[DaveN]

800,000 search engines ...wow ... what a crock of horse - - - - ..

and by hand ..

save your money .. go by a few links in your industry .

DaveN

[David Wallace]

No!

First of all there are not 800,000 search engines. There may be a large number of directories but the vast majority will probably never benefit you in any way. There are only four search engines that matter IMO - Google, Yahoo, MSN and Ask Jeeves. And you do not need to submit to these but rather get a few quality links pointing to your site and their crawlers will find your site on their own.

Secondly and a rule of thumb, never hire a so-called "SEO" unless they are going to improve YOUR site. Avoid anyone who is going to either create or optimize content that is not in your control such as hosting pages on separate domains. An SEO should improve your site and not only its visibility in the search engines but its ability to provide a good user experience and convert visitors into paying customers (if that is your goal).

[DarkMatter]

Utter nonsense. These people are trying to fleece you. Theres no reason to submit your site to 800,000 directories (if that many even exist).

All you need to do is get indexed on the top 3 MSN, Google and Yahoo and there you've captured probably 98% of all search traffic. Getting indexed on these engines doesnt require a submission, you just need a link on a page that is already in their index. I haven't submitted a site in years, and all of my sites are listed and rank very well.

The idea of submitting twice a month by hand at "strategic" times is laughable. Most search engines (especially the important ones) will refuse to list a site that sends too many inclusion requests.

Regarding their "patented" technique: based the above, I would not take any of their claims at face value. It is most likely some kind of cloaking/redirect trick that will get you banned.