Submitting to minor search engines - worthwhile?

I use a tool at http://www. promoteclick.com/submit.htm to submit pages on my websites to some minor search engines (I leave out Google as the big G seems to index my websites with being prompted).

I've been trying to get into the habit of doing this for every new page of fresh content - which can be time consuming. I get very little traffic (if any) from the search engines that this tool submits too - but I am getting traffic from search engines that are not listed on this tool. Do some minor search engines like these share their databases? This would explain how they are picking up my website (I don't think they're big enough to find it by crawling in the same way as G, Y, MSN etc do). I want to know if going through this submission process is actually worthwhile

They might help with the traffic or link. Don't think it can hurt.

Firstly I would question why you feel the need to send the address of each fresh page that you produce up to the search engine.

My search engine Linknz is only still quite small but we have a web spider that returns to each indexed web site every four days, the visit checks the web site contents, it doesn't keep re indexing but should it find any changes in the web site content then it automatically re indexes the page or pages with the changed content. That way it keeps the links fresh and the content is always valid.
Some search engines may find what your doing to be classed as "Spaming!" the search engine and that may be keeping them away from your web site.
One thing I have noticed is that groups of search engine share the same data, every few days the front page of my search engine is updated showing the number of web sites indexed. Depending on which search engine I use, the age of the results shows me that some search engines don't update web site data very often, Yahoo still shows my search engine as having indexed 31,000 web sites which would date it to around four months old.
If I were to send my web address to the search engines each time something changed they probably would never return to me.
I hope that this helps

Many regards
Dave Andrews

would submitting once a month per site be acceptable?

In my book, submission to search engine is just a waste of time and potentially can get you some spam emails to boot.

Stick with what works. Submit your site to quality directories and get good backward links from other related web sites (some will disagree on the "related" aspect). Search engine spiders will naturally follow these links and index your site (assuming you have decent internal linking structure so that there is no orphan pages and the link level is only 2-3 deep maximum...also use site map to help the spiders find their way).

I have to disagree in some regards to 'submissions are a waste of time'. In many cases we have submitted sites to directories and search engines, and have been on the first page in weeks, and sometimes days. If its relevant to the search terms it will get listed regardless of how the search engines find it.

This isn't always the case, and we sometimes have problems listing a site regardless of the site's quality of content.

But I do agree with you on the spam portion on some submissions, which is where gmail comes in VERY handy!

There's no need to submit your site in search engine. Spiders will find your site without any help from you by submitting your site. Instead, submit it to quality directories.

I think, i also go ahead the nice suggestion of x3mario.

Getting back link from higher pr dir, article, blog will automatically notify to gogole and ultimately you pages will index..

Just update your site with good useful content and try to get some good backlinks, Search engines will automatically index your site. There is absolutely no need to submit your websites in Search engines.

But yeah! if you are getting problem in Google indexing, then you can use Google XML sitemap and GWT.

As long as you have a well linked website then most search engines will find you. I would concentrate more on directory submission than minor search engines, probably get better traffic and increase your link popularity.

In general - the more visibility your site has, the more likely your traffic would increase. Smaller search engines have their own traffic base (although minimal as compared to the big 3) but traffic from 50 to 100 smaller engines does add up