Effective Submission of Sites to Search Engines

If you’re wondering how to avoid those costly fees with resubmitting your website to search engines, you’re not alone. People pay a lot of money for companies to do this for them monthly. But I’ve recently seen some articles and information about whether or not this is really necessary. And I’ve learned a lot about resubmitting to search engines.

I do believe that resubmitting your website to search engines is a good strategy for online marketers. But the frequency and the process can differ and you can still get good results. After all, once you’ve submitted your website to search engines, they will eventually find you if you have relevant links from other sites – especially authority sites. This helps to keep your site on the map too.

But you always want to optimize your SE results. So, submitting your site manually is a good idea and it costs you nothing except time. But time is what makes your business strong and growing anyway! You always want to submit a new site to the major search engines.

You should also resubmit your site periodically, and especially when:

• You make content changes to your site
• You change your site design, layout and other optimization strategies
• You add new pages of rich, relevant content
• You include new surveys or other interactive components

Rather than relying on those automatic submissions that cost money, just do it yourself. Some of the links to help you with your manual submission are listed below. Take advantage of the opportunity to always put your website in front of the search engines and draw their attention to your new, rich, high-quality content.

Links for website submission and resubmission include:

• http://www.google.com/addurl/?continue=/addurl
• http://search.yahoo.com/info/submit.htmlfree/request
• http://beta.search.msn.com/docs/submit.aspx
• http://www.alexa.com/site/help/webmasters

The following site includes a long listing of search engines for your consideration. They offer paid and manual submission, but it’s a good idea to stick to the manual submission process as much as possible. These sites can provide you with search engine listings and you can use them to go directly to the SE for manual submission.

• http://freewebsubmission.com/
• http://www.submitexpress.com/submit.html

Don’t waste your marketing dollars on those websites that offer resubmission of your website for high monthly fees. Optimize your results by conducting manual submissions and always resubmit your site when you make quality changes and updates to your site. Don’t get carried away with weekly submission if you haven’t made substantial changes to layout, content, or other components – it will be a waste of time.

Check out these resources above and get started today – it’s time well-spent!