[Sigia-l] Don't submit websites to search engines?

[Richard Wiggins]

Totally agree with all of Christina's points.

Our latest stats show Google accounting for over 60% of referrals,
with Yahoo and MSN each at about 17%.  So the premise of the article
is ridiculous on its face; how painful would it be to submit to 3
search services that account for 95% of all referrals?

On the other hand, it WOULD be foolish to respond to any spam offering
to submit your site to 100 search engines.

/rich

On Sun, 16 May 2004 08:57:07 -0700, Christina Wodtke
<cwodtke at eleganthack.com> wrote:
> 
> I'm not sure how seriously I'd take this: the author doesn't seem to know
> yahoo, inktomi, altavista and fast are all just yahoo now.
> Also, he mentions forums as a good place to list your URL (great, he doesn't
> mention the important of relevant text around a link, so now forums are
> probably going to get linkspammed), but most forums are currently
> uncrawlable. However, he's dead on regarding directories, and that actually
> affects placement as well as getting crawled.
> 
> Were it me, I'd not pay for search placement, but would pay for directory
> listing.
> 
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Listera" <listera at rcn.com>
> To: "SIGIA-L" <sigia-l at asis.org>
> Sent: Saturday, May 15, 2004 11:43 PM
> Subject: [Sigia-l] Don't submit websites to search engines?
> 
> > Forget paying Yahoo to get included, here's an argument for not bothering
> > with SE submissions at all:
> >
> > <http://evolt.org/article/rdf/20/60314/index.html>
> >
> > Too simplistic?
> >
> > Ziya
> > Nullius in Verba
> >
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