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SEARCH ENGINE SUBMISSIONS
Search engine submission generally refers to how a webmaster submits his/her website directly to a search engine. There are many search engines available in the internet in the last decade. Earlier about a decade ago search engine submissions were pretty much necessary in order to improve the visibility of a website online. Thus every organization and every webmaster followed the process and submitted his/her website to several search engines.
In the last decade or so this scenario has changed. Now you have only few major search engines such as Google, Yahoo, Bing etc and they are more than sufficient to provide efficient results for search engine users. These search engines make use of highly sophisticated and advanced crawlers, bots and spiders in order to find various websites online based on backlinks and other methods defined in their algorithms. They eventually find most websites today on the internet by themselves.
Reasons why webmaster submits his/her website:
Basically there are two main reasons why webmasters submit their website despite the efficiency of crawlers used by search engines to index websites. They are mentioned below;
1. To add a new website the site operators would rather not wait for the search engines to identify them which exhibits lot of impatience.
2. To update the website or webpage in the respective search engine.
Methods to submit one's website and how they manipulate search engines:
With today's efficient technologies implied by search engines, all a webmaster needs to do is submit his/her site's homepage and the spiders and crawlers should be able to crawl that site provided it is well designed and structured.
Search engine submissions are no longer necessary:
With the advancements in technology and efficiency of algorithms search engines makes use of bots, crawlers and spiders to find almost every website that is being hosted in the internet. As per the site's popularity and click rate ratio, these websites are indexed and updated in a continuous manner. For a good site which keeps updating and optimizing efficiently, its index number will always be ahead of other websites providing similar services and information. As a result they are most likely to be displayed among the top 10 results of search engine's analysis during a search.
A website no longer needs to be submitted in order to be identified or made visible for people. With the concept of backlinks and well structured webpages in your website, crawlers can efficiently crawl and find your website pages and index them for the visibility. If your website is not among the top few search results, then you need to worry about other issues such as PageRank, trust and authority issues and not meeting up with the standards of search engine analysis to be listed on top.
Besides frequently submitted your website to search engines could be quite disastrous. Due to previous malpractice efforts of such similar attempts by spammers and scammers, this act is considered to be a spam and search engines can identify if a website tries to do so a lot. In turn the search engine will ban your website from being even indexed in you tried to submit 100s of times to Google. If you are a website owner such practices may not be advised by me.
However, there is an exception for new sites which does not have any backlinks or other facilities for crawlers to crawl through and identify your website. Under such scenarios after proper research work and background analysis you may facilitate the submission process. Similar to search engine submission, search engines encourage submitting sitemaps for better crawling and understanding of your site. Even if you have a sitemap it is important to have all the pages well accessible by search engines.
Manipulation by companies regarding search engine submissions:
There are many companies in today's market which promises to submit your website to several search engines at a cheaper cost. Remember that search engine submissions are highly unnecessary thanks to today's technological advancements and it is absolutely free. Charging for a service that needs no service at all is highly unethical and a huge crime. Also they give you false promises such as submitting your website to more than 8, 00,000 search engines for a fixed package rate. However, in today's internet there are only four major search engines and there certainly aren't 8, 00,000 search engines available online. It is a huge lie and a big scam.
Also these companies do submit your website. Only god knows where all which certainly doesn't work to your advantage and your website's data security is pretty liable and vulnerable for attacks by several hackers and spammers etc.
Apart from these above mentioned factors, these companies also submit your website numerous times for it to be indexed. Due to past experience of such similar malpractice search engines are pretty aware of such activities and thus they immediately render your website's authenticity and ban it forever. You certainly don't want your website to be banned due to such practices performed by the false promising companies.
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Sample e-mail |
The above screen shot is an example of an e-mail that is sent by a search engine submission company to a web user. It is an example of pure scam service that is done to deceive the user.
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Screen Shots |
The screen shot talks about SEO scams, the first being search engine submission. This is one of the biggest scam schemes that most new- comers to this search engine industry are subject to.
Google says that search engine submissions are no longer necessary. In the past it was necessary to submit sites to search engines. But now search engines use crawlers and bots to index sites on the net. Hence sites that offer search engine submission sites are scam services and are created to manipulate the users.
This is an example of a search engine submission site that offers various plans to the site owners for optimizing and submitting sites to various search engines. It is scam.
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Working Example |
A screen sot of a site that offers search engine submission services and offers various features. These sites are scam services and should not be trusted upon.
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