True or False! For Submitting site

[iota]

Hi masters,

Can the following statement be assumed right?


Submitting my site is enough?

No. Indexing will take up to 8 weeks, but this is not enough to start getting visitors. Being in the top search results depends mostly (but not only) on popularity of your site, and a new site is not popular at all. So you may need a different strategy.

In case you are using a popular free hosting service, robots may never visit your site. It is convenient to have your own site with your own domain name. In case you have not got it, check 6 international extensions in only one click here (fast search without graphics). For registration, it has no sense to pay over $9 (check for "register domain" a search engine).

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[JamieR]

When I submitted my site to google it was indexed within a month. Then, three months later, most of my photos were indexed. Your domains DNS Servers take between 24-72 hours to show up globally.

If you have a file called robots.txt in your root of your webspace, then the robots will know what they can and can not index. Although I don't use the robots.txt file anywhere on my site (don't ask me why, I just never got round to uploading one :eek: ) I just use

<meta name="robots" content="all, follow"/>as means of telling what the search engine robots what they can and can not do....however I dont know if this really works.

I don't think Google indexes many free hosts, although I have had a few free-hosted websites indexed by google before I got my domain.

Jamie.

[rmedek]

I'd say both True and False. Submitting your site isn't enough, but then again, it's not really worth the time, IMO. I submitted my personal site a few years ago, it took about a month to be indexed. The other sites I didn't bother with submitting and they took about two-three weeks. Go figure! :)

As Jamie points out, if you have a free host it might be worth it to grab a domain-- at $8.00 a year it's hardly unaffordable. My two cents...

[JamieR]

The best type of advertising is paid advertising, but at the end of the day, Google's spiders index your site pretty quickly in the end so paid advertising isn't worthwhile for individuals to promote their own websites.

Jamie.

[chump2877]

My opinion, I worked in advertising for awhile, and getting people to buy your product (we're ALL selling something!) through the use of advertising is all about exposure, and maintaining that exposure steadily over the course of a certain duration of time.....Most consumers need to see the same web site ad, or a print ad, or a television commercial multiple times before they even think about buying your product....There are lots of SEO and web advertising companies out there that claim they are able to overcome these odds, but your most potent weapon, in my humble opinion, is a long-standing ad campaign on the web (or elsewhere) and good, old-fashioned patience, persistance, and hard work.....

So, in answer to your question, submitting your site to a search engine is just the beginning when it comes to promoting your web site.....

[Cletus5]

Submitting is definately NOT all there is too it. Adwords and Overture are the temporary answer for immediate traffic. And they're both extremely useful, and unfortunately, most of us are buried and lost without them.

Yes, you must get your own domain. Freehosts are for the birds.

[iota]

If you have a file called robots.txt in your root of your webspace, then the robots will know what they can and can not index. Although I don't use the robots.txt file anywhere on my site (don't ask me why, I just never got round to uploading one :eek: ) I just use

<meta name="robots" content="all, follow"/>as means of telling what the search engine robots what they can and can not do....however I dont know if this really works.

Jamie.


So...ah how can I write a robots.txt file? Are there any tutorials link available out there?
Thank you!

[chilipie]

http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=robots.txt