Submitting pages that link to your site

[jgaffney]

I just read an article by Brett Tabke from 8/9/2000 entitled "Submitting Linking Pages". (It's posted on Search Engine World at [searchengineworld.com...]

At that time, Brett was submitting every referring URL coming in to his sites every 4-6 months.

Is this still a useful tactic?

[Macguru]

Hi jgaffney,

Welcome aboard!

I believe you discovered a stale page. Sumitting is good for directories and paysites. Nowadays, resubmitting is almost a waist of time.

[edited by: Macguru at 2:11 am (utc) on Jan. 9, 2003]

[pshea]

Less time consuming at this stage would be to create a page(s) on your site with links to those pages which link to you and let Gbot do it's thing.

Let w3.org check the links for you every couple of months to make sure the pages are (a) still there and (b) haven't been taken over by someone outside your interest.

[itrainu]

I believe you discovered a stale page. Sumitting is good for directories and paysites. Nowadays, resubmitting is almost a waist of time.

Macguru, this idea has been prevalent around here, however I have to disagree :-) When I first launched my site, Google didn't find it on it's own until I submitted. I had a PR0 until I started looking for links. Got the links and my PR was still 0. Resubmitted to Google and within a day or two, my PR increased.

I have a client who's description in Google was not what we wanted. I double checked the content on the page, the description meta tag and resubmitted...sure enough the description at Google changed. Coincidence? I'm not convinced :-) Enough time is passing in between and once you kick start Google, it usually comes crawling again. I suspect that if a page has not been modified in a while, Google does not update the description, etc. but might index any new pages that are linked from that page.

Any other experience with this?

itrainu