Why Submitting Your Site to a Search Engine Services is Not Necessary

When you check the result of search using Google search engine, you
will find out that the result shows more than 8 pages of companies
advertising their services or programs, asking you to submit your
website to the search engines. The prices for their services varied
wildly, but the truth in this matter is that any site submitter or
company offering search engine submissions is just making money out of
you. Here's the honest truth: Unless you run a local business, there's
no point to submitting your website to Google, Yahoo, or MSN. If you
do have a local business, then making sure your local listing is
claimed on their maps and your proper information is included is a
good idea. Let me explain. This is one of those services designed to
prey on the new and uninformed website owners. You need to understand
how your website gets indexed by major search engines like Google. All
search engines use programs called spiders to crawl the Internet.
Basically, this is a program that hops from one website to another and
reads everything on the page. It then looks for links and goes to
those pages next. When it finds a link to a website that it hasn't
seen before, it reads that page and includes it in the search engine
index pages (SERPS).
The time it takes your website to appear on the search engines varies
wildly – it could take between 22 minutes to 6 weeks. The search
engines all have a free "submit url search engine" page you can use to
submit your website to them, but it's rather pointless to use since I
just explained their preferred way to rank a website. Sometimes you
don't even have to submit a website or get a link in any way, shape,
or form, since they look at new newly registered domains and check
those out once in a while. So, yes, it is even possible to get your
website listed in the search engines for free without ever doing a
thing (getting ranked well is another story, however).So do yourself a
favor and save your money on these programs and companies. If you ever
see a company offering to submit your company to thousands of search
engines, why dont you pause, then think of how many search engines you
can name off the top of your head. If my thought is the same as yours,
the following search engines comes to your mind (Google, Yahoo,
MSN/Live, Ask, AOL). And the above-mentioned 5 search engines have a
combined 99.7% market share! That means the other thousands of search
engines out there are fighting for .3% of the market. In other words,
you're not going to see any traffic from those search engines no
matter how well you rank. And if those search engines are any good,
you won't need to submit your url to them since all search engines
follow links and if you have links to your website, they'll include
you. Please, save your money