I have several sites I now want to promote quite heavily and get them into the search engines.
Has anyone had any success with programs like SubmitWolf or any search engine submission services?
I'd be grateful for any advice on getting the maximum search engine coverage.
thanks
richard
There are a lot of submission services out there claming to get you listed in thousands of search engines. The consensus here is that they are pretty much worthless if they only just "submit". Search engines are pretty good at crawling the web, so submitting is not a key factor here.
However if these services offer other tools like reporting or optimisation tools etc. they can be a good investment.
We had a good thread [webmasterworld.com] on the subject lately.
Hint: I found it through the Site Search [searchengineworld.com] on top of the page ;)
As Rumbas suggested I would stay away from most submission services. They will attempt to submit your pages and this is generally the only guarantee you will receive, "we attempted it, thanks for the money".
The best course of action is submit a number of page listings in Dmoz.org. Spend some time reviewing how to submit and read listings currently in the directories that closely resemble your site's information.
If accepted, these listings will help a great deal in Google, AOL, AllTheWeb, Teoma, Hotbot, AskJeeves, Netscape, Atlavista, Lycos, and many others. In addition, your web pages will propagate naturally through each of these databases in about 8 - 10 weeks and not cost a dime.
It is best to do this first, rather than taking the optimize approach.
