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Many do this, but this company will change a monthly fee to continue doing so.
This seems like overkill, and I'm not entirely sure it will work. I'm sure that many people here know the search engine blaster technique (lord knows, a lot of companies are doing it), so does it work?
If not, do I need to hire a consultant to help us? That seems to be the only step.
Q: is it worth paying to get help getting listed in SEs.
Depends. From your description it sounds like they'll pretty much type your URL and some meta tag info into a piece of software like Submitwolf or something and press "submit" button. If that's all they're doing, don't touch em (buy the software and do it yourself if you think it has value).
It takes bugger all to submit to a search engine. The bigger decision is whether you want to pay to play for faster listing in some engines (personally I'd spend budget on that before I'd spend it on paying someone to submit for me).
If they are doing a serious link campaign for you, or (properly) SEOing your site or something that actually involves some work and skill, then it's worthwhile.
A: is it worth paying for monthly re-submissions.
Hell No. That's all. Just 'Hell No'.
Mass submission is no longer relevant. Building inbound links and occasional targeted submission are the ticket now.
Should you hire a consultant? It depends on your time frame, your business objectives and budget, and whether you (or someone else in the company) has the time and inclination to do the work. If the latter is true, then you've come to the right place to read up on how to increase your traffic.
There may be a more effective way to submit, promote and position your website, without the cost. All the information is available here at WebmasterWorld, you've taken the first step by finding your way here, now take some time and have a look around.
Perhaps you could request using some company time to search around the thousands of threads here, in order to optimize the website yourself. Most bosses love saving money anyways.
In most cases, there really isn't a need to be listed in 500,000 search engines. Really.
- Chad
Google will find sites through links, as will the other crawling engines. You can submit one time, if there's a free submit, and if pages slip out resubmit - not generally necessary at all.
Most particularly submit to ODP to get easily found, and some would say Yahoo. Once the engines know you're there they'll be back regularly according to their schedules - no charge!
If there's any cash to spare do a few pages with Pay_for_Inclusion, which gives a nice opportunity to tweak frequently to improve rankings.
It's optimization factors that determine rankings; submission or inclusion doesn't influence that. If the company has no one who knows how to optimize sites, by all means call in a consultant or outside contractor. Or dig in and study and do it yourself. Just about everything anyone needs to know can be found right here at WebmasterWorld. Add a little experience on to that and you're off and running.
