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How Search Engines Work
Search engines are sometimes referred to as robots, spiders or crawlers. This is because they use a software utility that literally crawls through your Website, catalogs the information and indexes the content for later reference. When a visitor performs a search, the search results are based on keyword matching and site content of cataloged pages.
A search engine has its spider or robot crawl through the World Wide Web (www) and travel from Website to Website. In fact, if your page is linked from anybody else’s site, you technically don’t even need to submit your site to a search engine. The theory is that search engines indexing the Web (spidering and cataloging) will eventually find your site on its own by following the links in a page that links to yours.
Although this might be true, you might need to submit your own site to make sure it gets in. Before doing this however, you should check to make sure that your site is not listed and then submit it only if it is not. This is to avoid being accused of over-submitting.
If your site was cataloged before you were ready, you will want to consider resubmitting it – but only if you can do so without violating any submission rules. This is very important!
Submitted by:
Scott M. Jason
President – SEO Project Management Group
www.SEOPM.com
The SEO Project Management Group is dedicated to providing top project management services exclusively for the search engine optimization industry. All SEOPM.com team-members are former search engine optimization specialists and trained IT project management professionals. We can also help find the right SEO expert for your project, if desired.
I’m loving the community written SEO book idea. I also think it’s cool that the book is being written by seopartner.com and each tip credited directly to the submitter instead of the site owner or web-master being credited as the author.
I’ve always wanted to write an SEO book but I am not really a writer and I don’t have enough material on my own. I just wanted to thank you guys for setting this up so people like me can be contributing authors of an SEO book. I can already see this helping me close more deals by giving me an edge over the competition. Thanks!
Comment by mike — October 26, 2005 @ 12:57 am
I really hate to say it but there is NO such thing as over submitting a website. I will say it again there is NO such thing as over submitting a website.
This is a common myth started by high prices SEO companies years back to scare website owners into using their service.
You will never get banned for over submitting your website….think about it if this was true you could simply get all your competition by "over submitting" their websites. The search engines that count are much smarter than this.
Comment by joe — October 27, 2005 @ 1:26 pm
Well, Joe, while it’s pretty extinct right now, as near in the past as 2 years ago, a number of SEs, such as AltaVista, would ban a website for oversubmitting. Soon, this practice was stopped due to competition issues that you mentioned.
At the moment, submitting to a search engine more than once will just MOVE your site down the waiting list - in other words, the more you resubmit, the longer it will take before your site is indexed. So over-submitting is still not a good idea. In addition, submitting a lot of sites from the same IP will sometimes get it banned for a while from using the SE.
Comment by Max — October 27, 2005 @ 10:34 pm