Many people in the SEO field will tell you that submitting your site to search engines is not necessary. If you have any links to your site from other websites, this is probably true. Nonetheless, or if you have a brand new site with no links, we have a free website submission tool that is a good first step down the path of search engine optimization.
Submitawebsite (Now Web.com Search Agency) got its start in the late 1990s as a search engine submission company. As you can tell from the domain name, submitting websites is what we did, and we submitted to multiple search engines that are now long gone. From a simple beginning, our business model evolved into advanced SEO techniques that make the old submission model seem quaint, but it still pays to get submitted if your site is new or if it has changed hands.
If you have a new site, you may not have any links pointing at it. The most likely result of submitting to Google, Yahoo, and MSN is that your site will get cached and then placed near the bottom of the list for its topic. This is not always bad. The clock starts ticking on your site when it is readable to a search engine, and “age” is one factor in rankings. Sites that are too young encounter a “sandbox” effect where they don’t get good rankings for a few months, so telling the search engine you’re there is the first thing you should do.
Following your site submission, you may want to get professional advice about getting your website found in Google, Yahoo, MSN, and other engines. If you are new to the website game, you should know that half of getting found in search engines involves avoiding penalties put in place for people who cheated the system in the past. You can learn quite a bit from studying online forums about SEO, or you can retain a Search Engine Optimization Agency like ours to give you a complete picture of what you need, and why you need it. Even if you’re shopping around for an SEO firm, we can give you advice on what to ask “the other guys” so you don’t overpay for the service you need. We help everyone from small businesses to large corporations, and a large part of our customer experience involves educating people about how SEO works.
