Website Submission
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Website Submission is the process of adding your website to an internet directory, search engine, social networking website, social bookmarking website or link network.
Some of these strategies can be benefitial to your search engine rankings over the long run. However some website submission strategies will yield only lost time and money, or at the worst can harm your search engine rankings.
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Let's briefly review the various forms of Website Submission:
Directory Website Submission: Is the process of submitting your website to an internet directory. These directories are typically broken into listings by categories or regions. Many internet directories require recipricol links (you must link back to them from your website), or a small fee for inclusion. There are also many free alternatives, but the waiting list to gain inclusion can take anywhere from a few weeks to several months or years.
Search Engine Website Submission: This is a scam that far too many website owners fall for on a daily basis. There was a time many years ago when this strategy was effective, but today any search engine worth your time crawls the internet looking for websites to index on it's own. Sadly there are many search engine submission services which still tout their services as a way to increase your search engine position.
Search engine submission does not improve your search engine ranking. It will only add your website to the search engines list of websites to crawl and maybe index. It is a better strategy to have effective search engine optimization services that place your website in locations it will be easily found.
Social Network Submission: Creating social networking accounts is somewhat time consuming, but alone provides very little benefit. Social networking accounts can be extremely benefitial in terms of real traffic as well as search engine promotion. However any social network account needs to be active, and engaging with its community to be effective. Simply opening an account with a link to your website is not helpful.
Social Bookmarking Website Submission: Utilizing websites such as Digg.com, people are able to share websites they feel are interesting or important with online communities. Submitting your website to a social bookmarking website one time, has a very low probability of having any effect on your traffic or search engine positioning.
In order to effectively use social bookmarking websites, you need to concentrated effort with multiple submissions from multiple sources.
Link Network Website Submission: Link networks, or link-farms have been universally shunned by search engines. These networks typically require you to link to them, or to other websites who are members of the network. These networks are considered "bad neighborhoods" in the eyes of search engines and can lead to your website being penalized or worse. If there was a plague in internet marketing and search engine optimization, this is the one to be avoided.
Effective Website Submission is an integral part of any SEO Campaign with IMAG Studios. Learn more about how our team of experts can help you rank higher on search engines, without breaking your pocketbook. Call 1-888-749-3832
