Site Submission Programs

I am interested in how Search Engines work. Subsequently I have read many articles both on the web and in this forum. I understand meta tags and have submitted several sites manually to various SE's. I also believe the importance of external links back to your site is sometimes underrated.

I have a question however... Does anybody use any Site Submission programs? I am talking about such software as Submit Wolf etc. How effective are these (I am deciding whether it would be worthwhile purchasing the full version of the aforementioned program). What other similar programs are available and what is the best?

Also how effective are sites like PRweb? Is it worth parting with $30 to receive the more beneficial services?

Lastly, has anybody added a list of the main/good/worthwhile search engines that you can submite your site to for FREE.

All replies are greatly appreciated. Regards, Jamie

Submitting your site to search engines is a complete waste of time. Don’t spend a single dollar buying software to do it for you either….waste of money.

You will be indexed quickly and the bots will visit your site much more frequently if you have links from other sites pointing to your site. Even a link in this forum (in your signature for example) will get you indexed quicker than submitting to a SE will.

You do not have to submit your site at search engines. Just get few links at some wepages. All the major search engines will trace your site through these links. If you get a link on a page which is visited almost daily your site is likely to be indexed at google in a few days. I do this for most of my clients. I put a link to their new site on my webpage which is spidered regularly and the site is indexed.

yeah... waste your time on SEO, not on submission, it will definitly happen...

For new website promotion, get links and get links. Not just links to your home, but a few links to your navigation pages too. If you just get links to your home page, bots will just crawl your homepage, and wait for days and sometimes weeks to completely crawl your sites.

When you mean links. Do you mean typed out links like: http://www.honda.com or do you mean links like an image that links to your page, like a banner. Or does it work both way? Do the bots only read the page as we would or do they read the source code looking for links.

What appears on page is link text. That can be cars instead of honda.com and prefereably it should be like that. When you click on it then it should take you to honda.com and when you hover your mouse over it then status bar of your browser shows honda.com

sure, do link exchange.

and with God's help, you may be accepted in DMOZ in about a couple of months, if so many editors are so fuc.... slow.

Sorry if I'm having a blonde moment but what do you mean here? Do you mean make sure that if someone puts a link on your site they have your keyword in the link text?

e.g. a link on your site which links to my football store contains the keyword 'football apparel'

Football apparel

They way you have used "football apparel" in you sig.

Exactly. This type of link is called anchortext, and is the most important type of link you can get in the present SE culture.