Anyone know of any good Search Engine submission tools that are free?


Thanks

If you do a search on the internet, there are tons out there. but usually they're not very useful. They never get you top ranks.

yeah..I'm looking for one that gets top ...or at least middle ranks.

Well... Its not free but Webposition gold is about the best out there.... I am looking to find people that want to pool money to buy it together....

well if it's the best out there, I'd be willing to participate in a pool depending on cost...how much does it cost?

I hate promoting web sites... but...

Keep an eye out in the next week. A new website will be around, with some pretty awesome stuff.

Its a manual based submission website, they provide you with the links to over 1000 search engines, ffa pages, directorys etc etc... The links bring you directly to the submission page. On top of that, you can use their rank check system, meta tag creation system, ranking system...

Also, they are going to provide people with the most popular inputed keywords into search engines weekly.


Its going to cost $20 a year to use.

I only know about this, because the guys that are creating it. hang out in the same chat room as i do.

I'm in for sure... just let me know the details and how i can chip in. By the way, is this like, illegal or something? sharing software?

directNIC has a free site submission tool for use by their customers. I've used it quite a bit and it seems OK. It submits to most of the major engines and my site actually showed up in the search after a while.

Originally posted by 403forbidden
yeah..I'm looking for one that gets top ...or at least middle ranks. Sorry, there is no submission software, free or otherwise, that will do anything to get you top rankings.

Submitting to hundreds or thousands of sites is a waste of time. There are arguably five to 20 search engines and directories that are relevant enough to worry about, and only a few of those to which free submissions can be made or have any effect.

Anyone hyping their submission software or submission service is living in the past.... now, if you're talking not just about submission but about optimization techniques that might actually affect ranking, that's a different thing. But if you're just talking about submission to get your site listed, that's just not the search engine environment today.

Submitting to thousands of FFA sites or link farms is more likely to get you penalized by the most important search engines than it is to bring you any measurable traffic.

As JayC said, there're only a few search engines out there worth submitting to, and you might as well submit it by hand.

Getting a good ranking on a seach engine has nothing to do with the process of submission. It has to do with things like how you "optimize" your page for the different search engines, the number of sites linking to you, etc.

Originally posted by fatman
As JayC said, there're only a few search engines out there worth submitting to, and you might as well submit it by hand.

Getting a good ranking on a seach engine has nothing to do with the process of submission. It has to do with things like how you "optimize" your page for the different search engines, the number of sites linking to you, etc. Exactly! First fine tune your site, and then submit - either by hand or automated - but the key is how you've optimized your page.

Originally posted by JayC
Submitting to thousands of FFA sites or link farms is more likely to get you penalized by the most important search engines than it is to bring you any measurable traffic.

Agree with JayC totally

Originally posted by JayC
Submitting to thousands of FFA sites or link farms is more likely to get you penalized by the most important search engines than it is to bring you any measurable traffic. You'll also get more spam than you could even dream [nightmares] about. DON'T DO IT!

Optimize, submit by hand. And your set :)

So can someone give me a list of the more important search engines?

Yahoo
Altavista
DMOZ
???

Google definitely No.1

Originally posted by dragonhawk
So can someone give me a list of the more important search engines? The order and even what to include depends a little bit on your goals, and whether you want to include directories along with search engines, and whether you want to include paid spidering or PPC "advertising engines," but you could start a list with something like this:

Google
MSN
AOL
Hotbot
FAST/Alltheweb
Teoma/AskJeeves
Yahoo
dmoz
Looksmart
Altavista
Overture

If your definition of "search engines" includes Inktomi, they have to be there... but their results are included in some of the above. If your site was listed in each of these, you'd probably be covering the sources of well over 95% of all searches.

In context with this thread: submission to Google and FAST is unnecessary, submission software can't submit to Altavista, Yahoo, dmoz, or Looksmart, submission to MSN, AOL, and Hotbot is really only effective if you do it through Inktomi, Overture is PPC only... the point, again, is that submission software and submission websites are a thing of the past; anyone trying to sell them to you is selling snake oil.