Promotion World ARCHIVE Tutorial December 27, 1999 Hand Vs. Mass Submission When you think of submitting your site to the search engines, you probably think of one of the many mass submission programs. You shouldn't. Additional Resources: Submitting Your Site In this article you will learn more about submitting your site to the engines and directories, and how exactly to go about doing it. Importance of Search Engine Positioning Kajetan thinks that a lot of people underestimate the value of getting a good listing in the search engines. Search Engines: Have Fun With Them!! Brian thinks that people take getting listed on the search engines far too seriously. Lighten up, and have some fun with it! Sure, they make the job a lot easier. But personally, I think you can get much better results if you submit to the eight biggest search engines by hand. Why? Here are some of my reasons: They are not very specific in how they get your site listed. Think of Yahoo, with it's hundreds of catagories. They can never get you listed in the perfect catagory on each directory out there to give you the best results. They don't do as good a job. For this one, I'm speaking generally. For example, if I submit my site, and something happens in the submission process (for instance, it can't connect to the search engine's server), it probably won't try again. Also, what if the search engine has changed the page to which you need to submit? Some search engines don't accept submissions from the mass submission programs. Why? Because often they are spam. So, I recommend that you submit to the top eight search engines by hand. The next section talks more about that. After you have submitted to the major search engines by hand and you then want to use a mass submission program to submit to the other hundreds of smaller engines, that's fine. It would save you a lot of time, and probably wouldn't greatly affect your results.