Safe to submit each page from site individually to search engines?

....Or will I appear to be a spammer....

[tvldeals]

OK here is my dilemma. I am frustrated because certain pages from my site are not being indexed or crawled in general and wondering if I submit all the "individual" pages from my sites, to the top search engines, will it be viewed as spamming or would that only be reflective if I was submitting the main URL page, over and over? Sure could use some advice on this subject...

[encyclo]

It's definitely spamming, and it won't help you in the slightest.

You need to find out why your pages aren't being indexed rather then trying to submit them to the search engine (which is a pretty useless action anyway: spiders follow links, so you shouldn't ever need to submit anything at all).

It could be for a number of reasons: poor URL structure or site navigation, use of session IDs or URLs which resemble sessions, no backlinks, little or no on-page content...

[bill]

It's definitely spamming

I agree with most of what you said, but fail to grasp how submitting pages to an SE is considered spamming. (I also don't quite agree that you can spam a search engine, but that's another topic...)

Submitting your pages doesn't accomplish much to begin with. Having some sort of penalty for submitting pages would really be counterintuitive for the SEs, don't you think? If there were such a penalty wouldn't all the "spam reporters" be out there submitting every site above them to knock them down a peg or two?

[piskie]

Most top s/Es state to only submit a domain and not each individual page.

Examle from Google:
"Please note: Only the top-level page from a host is necessary....."

[sem4u]

Is it me or are there questions like this everyday?

There is no need to submit any pages of a website to the top search engines. Just get some decent inbound links and your site will be crawled. The more links you have the more frequent re-indexing should be.

As for new pages added to sites, you can link to them on the site map and on the homepage (e.g. new product with a link).

If the pages are dynamic re-writing them with mod re-write or IIS re-write may help, but they should be crawled anyway. If too many parameters are included in the URL then search engines may start to struggle indexing them.