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To Submit or not To Submit to the Search Engines
January 11, 2008 |
You can get your site into the Google index in two simple ways: Submit the site manually or Let the crawl find it
Neither method offers a guarantee. Google accepts URL submissions, but it doesn’t respond to them nor assure Webmasters that their submissions will be added to the index. When Google decides to manually add a site, it does so by sending the spider crawling to the submitted URL to take stock of the site’s various pages. Characteristically, Google doesn’t inform the Webmaster that the site has been accepted, and it doesn’t provide a schedule for crawling accepted sites. Google is a reasonably communicative com pany in certain departments, such as AdWords, AdSense, and enterprise solutions. And Google accepts URL submissions for the index, though it doesn’t acknowledge them. But asking humans at Google to interfere with the construction of its index is an exercise in futility.Google builds its index through robotic interac
tion, for the most part, and prides itself on these sophisticated automated processes. Google does not correct a Webmaster’s outdated listings or make any custom change to the index. The company counts on time and thorough crawling to solve problems. Google doesn’t want to hear from you about your index issues.
The key to attracting Google’s spider is getting your page linked on other sites. Google finds your content by following links to your pages. With no incoming links (also called backlinks), you are an unreachable island as far as the Google crawl is concerned. This isolated condition is the natural state of any new site. Of course, anybody can reach you directly by entering the URL, but you won’t pluck the spider’s web until you get some other sites to link to you. See Chapter 3 for a detailed tutorial in creating a backlink network.
Submitting a site might not be a ticket to instant success, but at least it’s easy. Enter your submitted URL at this address: If you add a page to a URL already in the Google index, there’s no need to submit the new page. Under most circumstances, Google will find the new page the next time your site is crawled in its entirety.
You don’t have to choose between submitting and not submitting; do both if you’re impatient. Submitting doesn’t stop the spider from visiting you in the normal course of events, but it doesn’t encourage the spider, either.Conversely, the spider’s failure to find you doesn’t affect the disposition of your submitted request. Are you getting the idea that gaining admission to Google’s index is a crapshoot? Not really. In fact, Google’s spider is so thorough that entering the index is practically inevitable if you follow the networking suggestions in the next chapter. Submitting a URL manually is acrapshoot, though. My best suggestion is to submit if you must, but don’t only submit. Get to work networking your site and implementing other optimization tactics in Chapter 3, which will get you inside the index more quickly and push your site to a higher PageRank.
If submitting a URL seems too uncertain and networking seems too difficult, you can get into the Web index by getting your site listed in the Google Directory. The Google Directory is a categorized list of Web sites, built by hand. Google does not build its own directory — a fact that surprises many people. Instead, Google repurposes the large Web directory created by the Open Directory Project. The Open Directory Project (ODP) is a non-profit organization staffed by thousands of volunteer editors who accept URL submissions for their respective subject niches. Google applies a PageRank to the Open Directory thereby reordering the directory listings, and presents the whole thing in familiar Google style. Naturally, the Google spider crawls the directory, so any new directory listing is automatically added to Google’s main Web index. Submit a URL to the
When it comes to accepting submissions, the Open Directory Project does not guarantee your entry any more than Google does. With ODP, you are at the mercy of whichever editor is in charge of your most relevant category,and the chance of developing a companionable dialogue with that person is
slim. Furthermore, the ODP URL-submission process is much more complicated than at Google. Finally, you can usually count on a long and indeterminate wait before your site is added. Keep checking by searching for your site in the Google Directory.
Search engine optimization technique (SEO) is a to-do task to boost your online presence as explained in seo services.Stefano Sandano is a professional seo also for the italian language websites in posizionamento nei motori di ricerca .
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