Submission to search engines?-All pages or just the home page?

Question

My companys website-which deals with health related issues is complete.We have tried to follow all the necessary rules for the website design and structure that are necessary for SEO.I have some questions about submission-

A)To get indexed on the 3 most popular search engines-only home page of the website should be submitted or some important pages-like 5 to 6 pages manually to these engines.

B) Since the website is very big-almost 240 pages--can we submit 5 pages every weak--will that help?

C)What happens when we make fresh content/pages-should we submit them separately each time they are made?

Thankyou for the help

Answer 1

List your site (main page) in an index that is liked by Google. Try netinsert.com. Google will index the page in a week. MSN and Yahoo will follow in a couple of weeks.



Make sure you have a site map so that the spider will have a route to follow, and all your pages will get indexed (may take several weeks).



Make sure your robots.txt file is not blocking any of the spiders.



You will be sandboxed (a penalty for new sites, helps get rid of spam) for 3 - 6 months in Google. MSN and Yahoo have similar penalties, but do not last as long as Google,



All new content added will be picked up, the next time your site is spidered (mine get spidered several times per month)



Let nature take its course. Resubmitting is considered spam and will get you banned or penalized. The days of "build it and they will come" are gone forever.

Answer 2

Hi, I'll try and answer this one for you. Getting to the top of the search engine rankings is the dream of every website owner. Trouble is, only 10 people can be on the first page of results for each keyword. In the case of the word "mom" there are 2,740,000 web pages with that word in the title of the web page. In the case of "family", it's even more depressing, 19,300,000. And "kids" is 15,300,000. The reason why the currrent 10 websites are on the first page of Google's results for each of the keywords you mention is because of a combination of 2 factors. The first is 'on-page SEO'. On page SEO means that the keyword (mom, family, kids etc.), has been strategically placed throughout the web page so that the Google spider 'thinks' the page relates to the subject. The second factor is what Google refers to as 'PageRank'. A web page's PageRank improves when other webpages (that have a similar topic focus) link to it. So, the more pages that link to you, the better. And even better still, is to have pages with a high PageRank link to you. This second factor is sometimes called off-page SEO and is the more important of the 2. So, the reason why Microsoft is ranked first for 'MOM' is because the acronym MOM occurs frequently throughout the web page, millions of people link to the Microsoft page, and Microsoft itself has a 10/10 pagerank. It's very hard to compete with that. Despite this rather depressing news, It is still possible to rank highly for related terms that people search for frequently, where there are relatively few web pages that have been optimized for that keyword. For instance, instead of the word 'mom', what about 'moms friend'? There are only 227 websites with those 2 words in that order in them, and over 7000 queries a month that use that exact keyword phrase. You could easily rank well for that phrase as well as hundreds of others. There is no magic bullet for ranking well in the search engines. The SEO guys that will promise you a top ten listing, will only do so for key words such as the one I mention above. There's nothing clever in that. You can do it yourself for free. For a full run down on how to do it, plus how to obtain all the numbers I have used in this answer, please visit my website, which is accessible from my Dr DIY link. Hope this helps.

Answer 3

Try to submit only important pages (but more than 1). You may want to resubmit about once every 1-3 months. If you have RSS feeds, that will help you a lot. You may also want to incude a sitemap as well.

Answer 4

Strange as it may seem you should not submit your site or pages from your site to the search engines and no professional has done so since the last century.



Search engines 'spider' the web looking for new sites/pages and it is best if they find sites/pages naturally in this way.



Although you should not submit your url to the search engines you must have some inbound links that the spiders can follow http://www.seo-blog.com/inbound-links.php



You can hand submit to appropriate directories http://www.seo-blog.com/directory-links.php to obtain your initial inbound links.