Submit it spider

[Skylo]

Hi guys, great site. I have learnt so much just reading the site....brilliant. What I just want to know is, if one goes to the msn-bcentral site there is a spider that it says will go through the site and afterwards tell you what it thinks might be the problem with your site as far as optimisation goes. Is this a trustworthy/advisable thing to do? Will it end up submiting me to other search engines etc?
Can anyone speak from experience?
Thanks everybody

[wilderness]

Skylo,
Welcome to Webmaster World.

In early 1999 when I just began with my sites, I used two submission sites.
Most were very minor SE's. The result for me from the majority of the submissions was unwanted spam.
Methods have changed drastically for submssions in the past four years. Some require payment.
I would suggest reading the MANUAL submission instructions on the major SE's and tailoring your pages to gather their cooperation BEFORE submitting. It the end it will prove most beneficial to both you and your site(s.)

[Dreamquick]

Skylo,

Generally these sorts of bots just do what they say on the box - if it doesn't say that it submits sites to search engines then it probably doesn't ... although that doesn't mean that they wont try to upsell you some stuff once they think they know what they can fix!

- tony

[Craig_F]

with Submit It it is all up to you.

the tool spiders your site, and provides advice based on what it finds. it looks for url probs, spam issues, and optimization issues.

after that, if you choose *you* can submit it right from the site. it includes Inktomi paid inclusion.

it also has a keyword research tool that provides data from MSN.