Search Engine Submissions That increases Link Popularity

“Submit to 1,000 Search Engines” or “Submit to over 10,000 Search Engines”

These type of ads will, obviously attract a lot of customers. It seems like a great deal, to submit your site to these search engines.

But, to think, what is the  possible result of all these nice looking tools submitting your web site to all these search engines? The result from all these tools is the achieved link popularity will be nearly Zero, but the mail box gets filled by loads of autoresponders from these search engines.

Which Search Engine counts?

As we all know that only a few of the many search engines used extensively on the World Wide Web that really count! 99.9% of the internet users use only one of the 10 top search engines. Scrub The Web provides this information in it’s member area. Google, Yahoo and now Bing are the top three search engines according to Alexa.

If Link Popularity of a website is measured by the services that provide this information, only the Link Popularity of a website at Google, MSN, Yahoo, AllTheWeb, Alta Vista or Hot Bot is displayed. This shows that only a few search engines really count for Link Popularity. Conclusion: Submit your site to Few important search engine is the right way.

Manual Link Submission - More Effective

For Submitting to Yahoo Seach Engine user has to login with yahoo id before they can start submittion. Submitting to BING requires a code to be placed before submitting. Google says that they will index site and we dont need to submit our site to them. But Google Sitemaps is a good tool from Google Webmaster tools to furthen increase the chances of indexing.

Directory Submission

Link submissions to Directories helps a lot in improving quality links of the website. The Open Directory Project is one of the biggest and most important of all the directories. Here, repeated link submissions becomes necessary. Google does favour websites in The Open Directory Project. The Yahoo Directory is the next best directory, but it is not free. These high quality links are important for increasing the Link Popularity and Google PageRank.

Quality Counts

We can now surely conclude that wasting our time and resources to get our website links submitted to thousands of search engines and other places are nothing but useless pointers that points noone but themselves. The world uses only the the top few search engines and methods to get your links submitted on those search engines are the ones, fruitful and worthwhile. Quality of backlinks certainly, creates a lot of impact on your Website popularity and will be more contributing in improving your Page Rank and Alexa Ranking.