How
often should/can I submit my site?
You can submit all you like. But as a general
rule, it is good idea to resubmit your site(s)
on a monthly basis. Do
the engines change?
YES!
They are constantly changing. We add new ones
regularly, and we remove expired ones regularly.
We suggest that you resubmit your site(s) at least
every couple of months.
How
much do resubmissions cost?
We offer
a significant discount for resubmissions! Resubmission
is easy if you wish to resubmit the same URL and information
again. Your site details are already stored
in our database and do not need to be re-entered by
our submission team. We pass this saving on to
you.
I
don't see my site listed in the engines after a submission.
Why?
We submit your site to the engines.
No one can actually place you on the search engines.
What we do is just like what you would do if you went
to each engine and added your URL through the browser.
The information gets submitted to the engine for processing.
Once it is submitted, we cannot control how it is
handled or processed. This is a numbers game. Some
sites will never list you. Some will take months.
Some will be immediate.
I
keep submitting my site over and over, but it never
gets listed, or is only listed for a short period.
Why?
You have probably been banned.
Over-submit your site and the engines *WILL*BAN*YOU*.
They will tag you as a spammer. Be a good netizen
and don't spam. 123SubmitMe.com is a great weapon
in the marketing war, but in the wrong hands it can
backfire on you.
Should
I submit all of my web pages ?
Only if you want to be
banned from the engines. The big engines will spider
your site. Over-submitting will only get people angry
at you. Just submit your home page. Be creative, not
offensive.
How
does 123submitMe.com know when a search engine has
changed or moved, and does it definitely get received
when it says its been received.
Sites go down all the time, they move pages, and change
form actions on a regular basis. We cannot guarantee
that every site will work. However, we constantly
remove sites and add new ones to our indexes.
We update our indexes once every week or two, always
removing dead ones, and adding new ones. All
you do is submit your site information to us, and
we do the dirty work of updating our indexes!
This is also why our index
currently has more than 1500 sites.
No submission service can tell if your link has actually
been added, since in most cases the engine accepts
the submission, then goes into some process before
it is added to the site. In some cases this
can be weeks, and in some cases they won't even accept
your submission. However, 123SubmitMe.com does
do some level of checking. It will only consider
a submission to be successful if the engine being
submitted to responds to the submission with no errors.
So if a site is down, our system reports a failure.
If the cgi, perl or whatever program the processes
the submission does not respond, or does not accept
123SubmitMe.com's input, our system reports a failure.
All of the failures go into a 'Failed Submission List',
and the reason for the failure is written to an error
log. If the same site continues to fail the site is
researched for corrections or omission from our index.
When we see that an engine continually fails for several
weeks, we take it out of our indexes.
For this reason, in a typical update, we might remove
40 engines, and add 50 new ones.
Do
I have to put in a full URL, or is www.mycompany.com
ok?
It is always best to use a full URL (without the http://),
such as www.mycompany.com/home.htm. Some directories
look for the full URL. 123SubmitMe.com automatically
inserts the HTTP://.
Why
does the submission fail for some engines?
There are so many reasons an engine might fail, that
it is impossible to list them here. Usually,
though, it is because there is a problem with the
connection between us and the engine's site, or there
is a misconfiguration problem at the site. It
could also be that the engine no longer exists.
Our system automatically retries failed submissions
three times before reporting a failure.
Why
does 123SubmitMe.com only support 18 keywords?
First off, keep in mind that the vast majority of
the sites that accept submissions don't even accept
keywords, so 123SubmitMe.com does not submit *any*
keywords to those. However, those that do accept them,
rarely even support the full 18 keywords 123SubmitMe.com
offers. Make sure that you put the most appropriate
keywords first.
The major search engines do
not accept the keywords you enter in the 123SubmitMe.com
interface. Instead, they spider your site and check
for meta tags. Again, anything more than 18 is overkill
there, too.
I'm
getting spam mail after using using your service.
Why?
123SubmitMe.com submits the
data that each submission site requests. When a submission
site requests the E-Mail address, 123SubmitMe.com
gives it the E-Mail address you entered on the Submission
Order Form. We cannot control how the e-mail address
is used from that point forward. That e-mail address
will be placed on some of the link sites where Spam
Spiders can get it. Some of the submission sites may
also be using the list of gathered e-mail addresses
for their own promotions.... Hence you receive SPAM.
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