Search Engine Submissions???

[edmc]

OK, I have never submitted to a search engine. I have let them find me.

90%+ of my SE hits are from google.

Am I missing out on the smaller SE's?

My theory was link to a site that gets spidered & no need to apply.

Is this wrong & Im missing out on extra clicks?

[losercore]

The only SE I have ever submitted to is Yahoo. I don't know if it makes it any better but I have a habit of submitting all new sites to Yahoo and those sites seem to take off better in Google sooner too.

[edmc]

Also.....adding to this. Site maps. are they needed for a standard site? I have a site with about 130 pages. Dont have a site map. Indexes fine but most of my links a internal so the way im looking at it is spider search from the point of the link. Im not saying dont use them but im saying there is no worry if you only have a one distance from a linked page.

The reason i dont have a site map on my site is because I built a site quickly & am adding the content as i go. I am adding the links to the pages with the new content & it is indexing fine. What I a using a site map for is looking at them together. Im putting that on a spare site so I can see what I need to change. Sure it would be silly just to ignore a google friendly idea but I dont think its worth panicking about as long as the links are there to show you page no matter how deep the page is. They say google ignores 4 deep, what if it has 100 decent links? Youtube/wikepedia/myspace. Im guessing the link to the page & content is the difference. A site map will only get a weaker page indexed quicker but im happy to have my weaker pages hidden till I work on them

[Squigley]

I'd agree with that about sitemaps. A well-laid-out site shouldn't need it. After all, they managed well enough before sitemaps!

As to submitting to SE's, some people say it can actually be a bad thing to submit - much better to let the SE's find you.

[PPP]

There are two different kinds of sitemaps... one is an html page like site.com/sitemap.html, the other is something done through Google's webmaster central.

[Squigley]

That's true PPP. In my post when I said sitemap I meant the Google sitemap. Every site should have a html sitemap page.

[edmc]

What is the difference between the 2? I will be adding a sitemap but not untill I work out a few titles, etc. Used the html version as reference. Not got around to the google version as yet. Didnt realise there was a difference.