New Article - Search Engine Submission Services Are a Scam

[thejenn]

Full Text: http://www.searchengineguide.com/cla.../0629_sc1.html

Some Snippets:

"Search engine submission services are completely worthless. And yet they are pushed and pushed hard by huge domain registrars, web hosts, web designers and many other credible web professionals."

"Google, Yahoo, and MSN will find your site by crawling links from other sites. If you don't have at least 1 link from one other page already in the index, you won't rank well for anything, even if the submission does alert the engines that the page exists."

[Adenan]

Let me reword the phrase.

Search engine submissions are worth very less, instead of worthless.

Adenan,

[thejenn]

If they are worth "very less" then it means they are still worth something. They aren't...so the statement was actually acurate.

Unless you can think of an actual benefit to submissions that the rest of us are missing?

[David Wallace]

If we are voting on the matter then I throw my vote in that they are completely and utterly worthless!

[Adenan]

Your statement "they are pushed and pushed hard by huge domain registrars, web hosts, web designers and many other credible web professionals.", speaks volumes in itself that thousands of web hosts, web designers and other would not be wrong if they use it.

Passing a sweeping negative statement is easy then to prove it. We should desist from it.

Adenan

[David Wallace]

They are pushed hard not because they actually work or are worthwhile but because there are still plenty of gullible people that don't know enough about search engines or marketing who end up purchase these types of services.

Those of us who have been in the business for some time like I have and the author of the article know better. Who are you going to believe - a web host, a domain registrar or even a web designer who most of the time don't know the first thing about marketing on search engines or a search engine marketer who does?

[fairdoes]

They certainly do seem a waste of time and money. Fortunately, good forums (fora?) of a democratic nature protect us, and links from such sites, and from any worthwhile site, promote one's ranking on the major search engines.

I just started contributing to www.wikipedia.org, because it's a good thing, and have visitors from there already.

[Logan]

I think worthless is accurate

[St0n3y]

I think "worthless" is an understatement. Such submissions can actually have a negative consequence.

[thejenn]

and just to clarify, those aren't my words, because I didn't write the article.

I'm just agreeing with the author.