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Right now, I just have a simple Excel spreadsheet with engine, url & date.
Anyone have any tips to make this a little easier?
Thanks
Sure, for the important engines I don't submit at all.
I do submit sites to engines outside the country if the client can conduct business there and I keep a list of directory submissions and acceptance dates.
A simple spreadsheet works just fine.
Doesnt that get pretty messy when you are submitting to a large quantity of engines?
Do you share your submission records with your clients?
I don't submit to a large number of engines. I let the engines find the site. For clients inside the U.S. that are marketing globally I submit to the top engines in that geographic location.
I submit to the top directories, (all two of them) and niche directories if the site is acceptable to the directory in question.
I make sure my clients know what engines and directories I have submitted their sites to but the list of submissions is a short one.
Submission to every little dinky engine on the web provides very little ROI.
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From the days when you could submit, I developed a NoteTabPro outline document with tabs for all the engines and directories... and I still use it as a form for tracking AV, Ink, and directory submissions, as well as page appearances in the rest of the directories. It gives you an interesting sense of how an ODP listing migrates throughout everything else.
I paste descriptions, category names, links, whatever, in the appropriate pages. I'm mostly concerned with directory descriptions. A spreadsheet for this would be kind of clumsy.
