Submissions Questions & Answers

Q. Why are there submission failures on the Submission Report?

• A. Because of the ever-changing nature of Search Engines, internet traffic condition, and network congestion on the Internet, it is not uncommon that we will experience some failures on each submission campaign. Normally, we can simply re-submit the failed engines again at another time if the amount of failed engines is unusually high.

Q. My site submission report showed that Google, MSN and other major engines were "skip submit". Will you be re-submitting these?
  e-MarketingSystems.com has explained frequently asked questions here about search engine submission to your website.

• A. When a search engine shows that it was skipped for example,

  AOL ….. Skip submit by Google
  Inktomi ….. Skip submit by Lycos
  LookSmart ….. Skip submit by Sensis (au)

  This means AOL gets its search results from Google. Therefore AOL was skipped because we submitted to that search engine through Google. The same goes for the rest of the search engines that show as (skipped).

  Inktomi gets its results from Lycos and LookSmart from Sensis and so on. None of these search engines were actually skipped. Some of them require us to submit to the data bases through different doors, so we will submit to them through MSN, Google, Lycos, Fast or Sensis etc. etc.

Q. What exactly does "Skip-Last Submit Success" mean in the report?
 

• A. Skip-Last Submit means that these search engines were skipped on the second attempt to submit the last failed search engines.

  In other words, we skipped these because they were successfully added the last time we submitted your site. We only wanted to resubmit to the search engines that failed. This gives you maximum exposure to as many search engines as possible.

Q. How often should I submit my web sites to search engines?

• A. Different engines act differently. Generally, you can re-submit your web site once per month.

  For Spider Engines, if your web site has been indexed already, the search engine's "Robot" will re-visit your web site at a regular time (normally once or twice per month) and update their database with the changes you have made.

  For Directory Engines, generally you don't need to re-submit it again if your web site has been indexed already. Most of the directory engines only accept the one main URL only. If you over submit, you will be considered as "spam" and may cause your web site to be banned by the search engines.

  You can re-submit your web site again if you make any changes to your web site. We suggest that you should always make some minor changes to your web site, so that the search engines will see that your web site is well maintain and it will also help to improving your web ranking.

  If your web site isn't indexed by the search engines, you can re-submit your web site again once per month. We suggest that make some changes to your web site contents before re-submitting

Q. Should I submit all my web pages or just the main index page?

• A. For Directory engines, most of them only accept the main page. For this reason, you should submit the main page only.  However, if your web site covers different types of products or services, you can submit each product page as well.

  For Spider engines, most of them claim that the engine robot will collect all the URLs from your main page, however, our research shows that there is no guarantee all your web pages will be indexed by the search engines. For this reason, we recommend you to submit all your web pages including the main index page.

Q. (What if I change my Web Page address or start using another provider so that I have two Web Page addresses to promote? Would I then be allowed to register my new Web Page address again?)

• A. As a general rule, you can re-submit your web site again if you change your web site address or change your web site content. Further more, we suggest that you should always make some changes to your web page content (change the title, keyword or description) and re-submit it regularly. This will make search engines to consider that your web site is well maintain and also help you get the high ranking.

Q.  What search engines do you manually submit my web site to?

• A. The search engines that we manually submit your site to are  Alta Vista, Yahoo and Google.

Q. What services are included in the Silver Submission?

• A. The services included in the Silver submission service are, submission to over 1000 General, Directory and FFA engines with a viewable submissions report and ranking report sent to you.

Q. Do you submit to Adult Sites?

• A. We are now submitting sites with adult content to all search engines for no additional charge over regular prices of submission.

Q. What services are included in the Bronze Submission?

• A. The submission to 300+ search engines without manual submissions.

Q. Is there a report that comes with the Bronze Submission?

• A. Yes, there is a submission report provided with the package.