Register.com's "Site Submit" Program

Anyone have any information about what they're really offering?

[JustTrying]

According to Register.com, they will submit your site to 400 search engines, including Yahoo!- AOL - Google - Lycos - MSN - AltaVista - DMOZ though an arrangement they have with Bpath.com for a one-year cost of $59.99. Pretty amazing offer considering what each of those search engines and directories require individually to include a site.

Now, if this was some other no-name site offering this deal I wouldn't even mention it, but register.com is a large "known" company with a lot of name recognition. So, I'm really wondering what's the deal. Do any of you know any more insight about this, or has there already been a thread about this (I couldn't find one)?

(edited by: Marcia at 9:32 pm (utc) on May 12, 2002)

[Marcia]

JustTrying, there have been many threads about the mass submission services, and those are unnecessary.

First of all, there are not 400 major search engines, there are far less, and most now charge for inclusion. The ones that have free submission can be counted on your fingers, and those are easy enough to hand submit to. Also, it is not necessary at all to submit every month - with some search engines no actual submission is even necessary at all, they'lll find sites by following links.

[JustTrying]

Marcia,

Certainly I understand and agree with what you are saying (about the 400 engines, etc.), and usually I just ignore these kind of "crazy" offers directed towards the SE uninformed, but this offer is at Register.com, which is generally accepted to be a reputable company that doesn't offer these kind of "fantasy promotions."

In fact it's because they are so large that I even ask if they just might have some sort of "corporate" arrangement with some of the major engines/directories that I mentioned above (Yahoo!, Google, MSN, etc.), or if they are just stooping to the same "pander to the uninformed" tactics that you find in so many other places around the net.

[Lisa]

very Interesting... I hope RCOM is not acting like all those other companies that say, "We submit to 10,000 search engines". yada yada yada.... I would think a company of that size would get really bad press and the legal department would get flooded if this was a scam. But when they say 400, it makes we wonder how legit it is.

If they could get me listed in Yahoo and DMOZ it would be worth it.

[Marcia]

JustTrying, I hear what you're saying. With MSN bCentral Inktomi submit, there's also a mass submittal in the package, and I wondered about that also, since Google frowns on automated mass submission and with AV there's the code to enter. And Alta Vista is also running ads on their submit page, one is for 1500 search engines and the other one spews popups and disables the back button.