By: Arthur Cooper
Submitted: 2010-08-19 13:28:12 | Word Count: 664
As an online business owner, you’re likely to realize that the best way to be successful is to increase the visibility of your website. The process of doing this, search engine optimization, involves many steps, one of which is submitting your site to search engines and directories. If you hop online and search for a company that offers you the ability to free submit your website to search engines, you are likely to net yourself millions of results. Unfortunately the vast majority of these offers are fraudulent in some way. Learning how to spot the bad apples among the truly free offers is the best way to ensure that your site is submitted to as many search engines and directories as possible—for free.
1. Act Now! Likely many of the offers you review claim that by acting now you can save tons of money in submission fees. Unfortunately in most cases, these offers are not actually free at all—they are just cheaper than the advertised price. For example, a search engine submission website might often charge $999.00 for submission to 1000 search engines and directories. By “Acting Now” you are not getting the service for free, you are simply paying less for it, for example $200.00.
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2. Guaranteed Highest Number of Sites: Again, this sounds really good. Of course you will want to work with the site that will submit to the most search engines and directories. Unfortunately, you might not be getting quality submissions. Carefully review the list of search engines and directories your site will be submitted to. In many cases they are located over seas, foreign language search engines or other search engines and directories that are otherwise unsuitable for your needs. Free submissions are great, but not if your targeted demographic will never use them.
3. Automated Submissions: In theory, this service works well. You provide them with the needed information, for example your URL, a brief description and your contact information, and the service magically submits your site to the top search engines. Unfortunately, many of these top search engines view these automated submissions as simple spam and they are never added into the database. It is often best to avoid automated services.
Many online business owners are discovering that the only truly free submit your website to search engines is the do it yourself method. True, this method will take longer, but it is simply the best way to ensure that your site is submitted to relevant search engines and directories and that it is properly submitted and accepted.
For those with a small budget to work with a better option may be working with a freelancer or company who offers the service on an a la carte basis. Under this plan, the online business owner can carefully select the number of search engines and directories they would like to submit to. They can also choose which search engines to submit to. By looking at this as an investment, many online business owners do decide to pay for the service.
If you are still interested in a free submit your website to search engine service, be sure to take your time when selecting the service. Carefully reviewing the terms, search engines and directories referenced and checking on the quality of work, it is possible to find a free service to handle your submissions for you.
The best option would be to create a dynamic sitemap and submit it to Google Webmaster Tools, Yahoo Site Explorer and Bing Webmaster. That will cover 90% of your submission needs. You can call us at 1-800-736-9618.
