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One of the biggest and longest-running SEO scams out there is the paid search engine submission scam, where unscrupulous companies try to trick you into believing that you need to submit your website`s URL to the search engines in order to get indexed. You`ve seen the ads:

Submit Your Website to Thousands of Search Engines Only $29.95!

Nothing could be further from the truth.

First of all, there aren`t thousands of search engines out there. There are really only five top tier search engines worth submitting to that will actually send you any traffic. And you don`t need to pay anyone to submit your site to them because those search engines will eventually find your site on their own.

However, if you want to submit your site`s URL to those search engines, you can do it yourself. The five search engines are:

1. Google

2. Yahoo

3. MSN Live

4. AOL (Powered by Google)

5. Ask (Powered by Teoma)

By the way, your website will get indexed a lot quicker, if you get inbound links from sites that are already indexed by the search engines.

David Jackson

 

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Yep ... same thing I`ve told people that I`ve worked with in the past on websites .... get a couple of inbound links, and search engines find you quicker than any other method ... and it`s free


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Y`know, a good article, would be one on what does "indexing" actually mean. I wonder how many people fall for this scam only because they really don`t understand why search engines work?

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I think that you meant "how", but "why" seems so much more appropriate.




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No, I actually did mean "why." It`s easy enough to understand the "how" of search engines (in layman`s terms), but I believe this whole SEO craziness is founded on a poor understanding of why search engines exist, why people use them, and why they present the results they present.

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:-) See? I think you have another article, David. I`d only modify the "algorithm" and define it as "the way a computer uses logic to come up with answers to questions."

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