Struggling to get listed

Will any search engine have my site ?

[SMc]

Hi,

I have just finished my first commercial Website for a Tax consultants. They are pleased with the results but are pressing for a search engine listing (preferably Google).

After trying for nearly 2 months to get the new site listed I have simply failed. I have tried using EZSubmit which tells me all is well and registering directly on sites eg Google/Yahoo etc but I still cannot find the site with any search engine.

Any help appreciated !

[spencerfellows.co.uk...]

[Brett_Tabke]

I am a long time programmed submitter. However, when it comes to the first submissions from a new client or fresh domain, I always do it by hand with IE. Google is very good about crawling new domains. If they haven't crawled the site since you submitted it, I could only point to the submission software as the problem.

[makemetop]

You are on AltaVista under 'spencer fellows'. Brett is right though, don't use automated software especially for the 'big' SEs - it just isn't worth the risk of not being submitted properly, being down graded or even banned.

[SMc]

...thanks for the Info..

...just an obvious point here.. does it make any difference when I manually submit the site, whether there is a slash at the end or not? eg [spencerfellows.co.uk(...] ?

..or should I be specifying the page below also eg: [spencerfellows.co.uk...]

Paranoia is setting in I'm afraid...! I am probably already banned from most of the major sites....

[rcjordan]

>Paranoia is setting in
Excellent, then you're likely to survive in this business.

as for the slash (/) at the end, I think the answer is 'use it' ...at any rate, I do, and I'm not banned. Well, not for the slash, anyway.

[NFFC]

SMc,

Now is the time to assess where you are with this job, *before* resubmitting.

[NFFC]

SMc fess up, are you in yet?

[SMc]

I'm in Google at last...!

Searching on "chelmsford tax" gives me a listing position 1 and 2, which is not bad considering there is a place called chelmsford in Massachusetts.

The secret behind the success ?...not hard work and perseverance, instead the guidance of a genius !

I've learnt some seriously useful lessons.

Now its time to re-read the "thou shalt not" list again...