301 redirects & submission

[Steveboy]

i see that some regional search engines dont accept non regional submissions. i.e. google.co.uk only accepts domains with co.uk.

Firstly is this correct? The SEO Submission software I use is telling me so.

Now if I won two domains, .com & .co.uk, but the co.uk has a 301 redirect to the .com. Can I submit the co.uk version to the regional serach engiones to get around the above problem?

[vicky]

why do you want the .co.uk domain to be submitted to the search engine? it's of no use. moreover, submission to search engine is of no use. don't waste your precious time in these activities.

[Steveboy]

why would you say its worthless?

[vicky]

it is worthless because search engines have their own way of finding and indexing sites. search engines won't index the website even if you submit it many times. on the other hand if they found your link somewhere they will follow your site and index it.

[g1smd]

Search engines find your site using links to your site found on other sites.

Submission software is of no use, and hasn't been for many years.

[jdMorgan]

Submitting to search engines isn't *totally* useless, but then again the pages won't rank without *some* incoming links.

So, if you want the pages to rank, get some links from other sites. And once you've done that, submitting becomes redundant.

Search engine submission has been essentially dead for ten years now. However, there are still plenty of people making good money selling "submission" software, and claiming that there are 10,000 search engines or some such silliness -- you won't likely find more than a dozen that will ever matter in your market segment.

There may indeed be more than a dozen, but most of them won't be doing their own crawling and indexing. Instead, they will be taking feeds from the major search providers and re-packaging the data for presentation under their own marque; Once you're in the major search engines' results, you're also in the feeders/aggregators' search results by default.

Jim