submitting several pages

[hollyhats]

I notice that when I do a search for a certain topic, I see a lot of sites that come up like this:

www.yourdomain.com/page3catalog

instead of

www.youdomain.com

Obviously, they are submitting different pages of their site right?
I didn't realize that Search Engines would pick up different pages of a site. I assumed they would only pick up the home page. How do you submit them? Do you always submit the same title? Or do you change it on the HTML coding? For each page? Do you change your keywords for each page?
I have a million questions, I know.
Help if you can!
Thanks-
Holly Hats

[Marcia]

Holly, we're glad to answer your questions.

Each page of a site should have text and page titles (among other things) that are unique to what that particular page is about, with the appropriate choice of keyword or keyword phrase to accurately represent what's on the page.

Basically, it can't hurt to submit more than one page if it's limited to say, 5 pages per domain per day as a general rule of thumb. But it's really not necessary, most search engines will end up crawling the entire site simply by having the index.htm or index.html page, which they can most often find through links to your site. Some people don't even bother submitting, they let the search engines find them.

That's why you'll see interior pages ranking at the search engines; whichever page on the site is most relevant to the search term is what should come up.

[hollyhats]

Thank you Marcia. Very helpful and clear as usual!