Does anyone use any - free or not?

Thank you :)

I do not submit period let the engines pick you up just get some links on some good sites and your set. To me it is a waste to submit as the search engines will do it for you.

True - but only if other sites that have submitted themselves are linking to you - otherwise, a search engine spider has no means of knowing you exist!

Well jimp that is the point of it all is to have your site linked on a good site. I personally submitted one of my sites and it still is not in Google. But I started 2 new sites and put links on my Google pr2 site and did not submit and bam less then a month I was in Google.

Hello,

I suggest use IBP (Internet Business Promoter) its a great tool. It will take care of all the submissions, I myself submit every month using this software. For getting Page Rank, for my clients i use Arelis (Link Building Software) << Nice software but eats lof of bandwidth while scanning.

IBP is available free for trial version. You can download and see how useful it is :)

I've heard that some search engines don't like IBP.

Well,

As per my experience using IBP i never had trouble from any search engine.

The concept is that IBP not just helps listing in search engine but also generates various other reports which help to optimise website for better ranking and listing.

It could also be possible that you are right. In that case i have heard about another software named "SEO Administrator" never used it but seems to have a good set of features in it too...

hi there,

let me tell you one thing that why do you want to submit your site in hundreds of search engines? it is wiseable to concentrate only on google, yahoo and msn.

the queistion you have asked about the use software for search engine submission and my answer for is no. it is very fruitful to submit mannualy rather than using any software. when you use a third party component the risk factor comes to discuss.

so don't use any third party component that is not coming under the google guidelines.

hi there,

let me tell you one thing that why do you want to submit your site in hundreds of search engines? it is wiseable to concentrate only on google, yahoo and msn.

the queistion you have asked about the use software for search engine submission and my answer for is no. it is very fruitful to submit mannualy rather than using any software. when you use a third party component the risk factor comes to discuss.

so don't use any third party component that is not coming under the google guidelines.
Indeed I believe this too, but sometimes clients adamant in what they want.

Well jimp that is the point of it all is to have your site linked on a good site. I personally submitted one of my sites and it still is not in Google. But I started 2 new sites and put links on my Google pr2 site and did not submit and bam less then a month I was in Google.
True, because Google use PageRank = ranking by the natural democracy of the web (or a playgrounf popularity contest!). But Google have broken the web - directory sites that link to directory sites filled with adverts are normally in the top search returns for about..... anything.

However, Google is gradually moving away from PageRank (with it's recent update to their algorithm called BigDaddy), and take more intelligent spidering into account. What made Google "smart" was that it used our intelligence, not programmed intelligence, to rank web sites. But the Google creators underestimated "our" intelligence to abuse this for ad-revenue making services.

Google makes moves away from PageRank (but still keep's its token methods) so that is can compete with much better search engines like http://beta.search.msn.com (which you will find, strips out the junk for you and provides clean search results). It's also why Google are making several acquisitions of new search algorithms so it can continue to find a better one.

Indeed I believe this too, but sometimes clients adamant in what they want.
There are two approaches one can take with misinformed clients:

1. Educate them.
2. Let them pay you to do what you know isn't going to help them.

I like to refer to these as "the high road" and the "the low road."

True - but only if other sites that have submitted themselves are linking to you
No, only if other sites that are indexed are linking to you. How they got there doesn't matter, but the vast majority of sites that are indexed were never submitted -- they were found through spidering.

If you do want to submit to Google, though, no software will successfully do it; you'll have to do it manually (http://www.google.com/addurl/).

But here is Google's current page titled "How do I add my site to Google's search results? (http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=34397)" Notice that they no longer even link to the addurl page.

You really don't need to use search submission services - PERIOD.

Just get links to your site, and that will do you fine - search engines are happy to follow links to not simply find your site, but also rank it according to their own criteria.

For more on easy ways to get links, try this:
http://www.platinax.co.uk/70-how-to-increase-your-online-sales-for-free/