If your site just got off the ground, do you need to submit it to search engines to get more viewers? Is anyone really going to know it’s there without a search engine? And which engines are you going to need? Do you really need to pay a fee to get your site submitted to a thousand different search engines all over?
Well, no. And no. A lot of no, in fact – that whole first paragraph is full of them! Here’s the thing: yes, you’re probably going to need the attention of a search engine if you’re going to get your web site anywhere substantial on the web. But no, you don’t have to submit your site all over the place – and for heaven’s sake, don’t pay anyone to submit your site. There are only a few search engines that really matter, anyway – and they won’t charge you to get your site indexed into their databases.
Don’t waste your time and submit site to Google – It’s not that Google won’t get you more viewers; it’s just that Google probably won’t really do anything with your submission for a while. If you really want to try making money with Google, you should try their AdWords advertising program. Since Google actually makes money off of that, they’re much faster and more efficient with it. Their submit program, however, isn’t going to get you very far, just because it takes them so long to do anything.
If you really want your site to be noticed, the best thing you can do is to keep the information on your site original, updated, and helpful. If people find your site useful, they’ll post links to it – which is how the web crawlers of all those search engines find the useful sites in the first place. Point is, if you’ve got a site that’s really worth visiting, chances are, the search engines already know about it.
