
June 2nd, 2003, 11:55 AM
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Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: West Coast, USA
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Hi Brian1,
Which engines do you want to submit to? With Google you never have to submit a single page...the best way to be found there is for their deepbot (216.239..) to find you via an inbound link from another site in the Google index (and preferably one that ties in thematically with your site's topic matter...)
I have never bothered to submit pages to Google and have never had any problem getting indexed and doing quite well in the SERPs...
Also, if your site has no inbound links then submitting will not actually gain you anything....get that valuable 1st inbound if you don't have one and that will get the ball rolling...
The other issue you face is that the top search engines (with Google at the top of the heap)...definitely frown on automated script submissions to there indexes....
If you have a large products oriented site with over 500 pages you may need to look into an XML feed type service...the engines love this (though Google doesn't support this on the free submit side but rather on their froogle.google.com merchant side...at least that's my understanding of their situation...)
good luck...
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