Search Engine Submission

Search engine submission is pretty much viewed as one of the semi-scams of seo and the internet. Many services offer to submit for a set fee, but search engine technology only thrives on the fact that they find their own information. There is a"robots" META TAG for this very reason, because engines will find you no matter what. For this reason, to pay someone to do what is automatic is a common mistake made by many webmasters.

Search Engine submission services offer packages that suggest thy can submit to thousands of search engines for one set fee? Can you name even 10 search engines? neither can you customers.

Search engine services suggest that the submission will lead to higher rankings? Search engine listing are not spidering each other, which is to say your existenc ein Yahoo search is not acknowledged by google search and so will not help you in the results of either. Directory and static exposure sites may help somewhat, but this too can be done for free.

Here are quotes from the big names in search and the search submission policies of each:
(never pay to submit to an engine)

Google: "Please note that we do not add all submitted URLs to our index, and we cannot make any predictions or guarantees about when or if they will appear."

Yahoo!: "We do not add every submitted URL to our search index. Therefore we cannot make predictions or guarantees about whether your URL will appear as a search result."

MSN: "Submitting your site does not guarantee that your site will be indexed."

AOL Search: "AOL Search is a hierarchical Web directory, organized by subject. All our user-submitted Web content is maintained by the Open Directory Project."

Open Directory Project - DMOZ: "We don't accept all sites, so please don't take it personally should your site not be accepted."

AltaVista: "Search results on AltaVista are powered by Yahoo! Search Technology."

AlltheWeb: "Search results on AlltheWeb are provided by Yahoo!"

Lycos: "We don't accept all sites, so please don't take it personally should your site not be accepted."

Accoona: "We do not add all submitted URLs to our index, and we cannot make any predictions or guarantees about when or if they will appear."