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Submit All Pages to Search Engines

Experts disagree about whether this tactic will harm you, or whether it is just a waste of time. But either way, that strikes it from our list of Good Choices.

Some people are still saying you have to do this, but please believe me when I say you don't! In fact, doing so may cause you to be accused of spamming the search engines. Here is why you DON'T have to do this:

The search engines will find your site even if you do not submit it, as long as you have a link to a site that is already indexed. Once a site is indexed, it gets regularly spidered (to look for changes), and the search engine will pick up any changes to the site. It will also follow any links it finds, and index THOSE pages.

So whether your site gets found naturally from a link, or whether you submit it to the search engines, all you need to submit is the index page. Many search engine submission guidelines tell you flat out, do not submit more than the index page. They will go and spider your page, and then start checking the links, bit by bit. It can take up to three months to index all the pages, depending on how complex your site is, and how many layers of links you have. But they WILL get indexed!

Submission services that promise to submit every page are a waste of your time and money. Don't fiddle around doing this. Spend your time building more quality content - it will get you further, and actually help your site get spidered regularly! Sites with regular changes get indexed more frequently than sites with no changes, plus you are giving your visitors EXACTLY what they want! Everyone wins!

So build your site. Register it ONCE, the index page ONLY, and then start adding more pages, or more information to the pages you have. That truly is the most efficient way to get your pages individually indexed, and to keep the search engines, and people, coming back for more.