could you please tell me which program to submit your website to search engines you are using? are you happy with the results and do you suggest it?

cheers! :)

Aloha

do not use em they do not work and can get you banned form search engines

go to sitepoint forums and go to there searchengine forum some good info there
also go to www.searchenginewatch.com

and they have the best info there and some great links for free to check out
95+% of your traffic will come from the main engines

so do it by hand ;)

thanx for your advice... wow... i did just see that I'm listed inside the yahoo directories of 3 countries :))))

the only search engine you REALLY need to submit to is dmoz.org

Quote from their website:

The Open Directory powers the core directory services for the Web's largest
and most popular search engines and portals, including Netscape Search,
AOL Search, Google, Lycos, HotBot, DirectHit, and hundreds of others.

So there you have it, all those submission programmes are essentially useless junk... No pun intended of course ;)

thanx :) i did just check out dmoz... I've 6 entries there. are there other seach engines wich are really worth to spend time on them? cheers!

Aloha
yes
read searchenginewatch.com
SEO is to complex to cover in one thread

cheers again :)

I've bought Addweb, it is quite handy at times.

I use AddWeb also (http://www.cyberspacehq.com).
I like it because I can run a rank check and schedule submissions. Once you enter the info and set the schedule you don't have to think about it anymore.

http://www.spiderfood.net : that`s the best resource I`ve seen. Web Position Gold is what I use to determine how I build pages for specific searchengines (and many other things).

and is it really worth to spend: "Standard Edition Only $149" ?

Originally posted by tortellini
and is it really worth to spend: "Standard Edition Only $149" ? If you have, say, one site and you want it to be listed in search engines but don't really care what kind of placement you get -- or your site's in a category that's not too competitive -- it probably isn't. Because you can just do a few manual submissions and you'll be listed.

But if you want to get good positioning on a few search engines in a competitive area it WPG will help make the job easier. I suppose that for the large group of webmasters who pay only $100 or so to house their site for a year, $149 is a lot of money, though. You'd have to decide for yourself whether it's worth it.

I wouldn`t say it is worth $150 for one site.
You will be best of reading everything on spiderfood, and then study the pages that rank highest on the searchengine (this is automated in WPG) you want to be listed in (except AV and Google as they use link ranking).

I have it as a valueadded service, so it`s worth $360 for me.

Originally posted by Haakon
I wouldn`t say it is worth $150 for one site.
You will be best of reading everything on spiderfood, and then study the pages that rank highest on the searchengine (this is automated in WPG) you want to be listed in (except AV and Google as they use link ranking). It'd be absolutely wrong to dismiss on-page elements when looking for good rankings at Google and AV. Google's PageRank, for example, is essentially a measure of linking... but all evidence indicates that traditional page elements as well as theming, etc., hold more sway in actual SERP position than does PageRank.

"I wouldn`t say it is worth $150 for one site. You will be best of reading everything on spiderfood...." depends on how much your time is worth. If it'll take you 10 hours to read everything on any resource site, and five hours to implement it, and you save $150 by doing so, you've paid yourself $10 an hour for your time. And you'd probalby still make some mistakes (like overestimating the value of off-page elements, for example. :) )

A problem with any kind of software, though, is that the situation changes faster than the software does. Many of these packages do an update every month, but that means you're likely out of date for some weeks when something happens. Same thing for sites like spiderfood... the site's among the best, but there is out-of-date information there.