[thelist] Re: Submitting to Search Engines

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My understanding is also that Google pulls from dmoz, as well,
and being listed in dmoz is a good entry point to Google. I
recently had a client who I listed in dmoz, and after several
weeks (however long it takes to get up in dmoz), she was soon
on Google. And trust me, she didn't have links to any other
sites on her website.

However, the "make many friends, associations and partnerships"
advice is the absolute best way of getting up there --
particularly in Google world.








| -----Original Message-----
| From: thelist-admin at lists.evolt.org
| [mailto:thelist-admin at lists.evolt.org]On Behalf Of Cayley Vos
| Sent: Thursday, October 10, 2002 6:44 PM
| To: evolt
| Cc: Williams, Alice
| Subject: [thelist] Re: Submitting to Search Engines
|
|
| Submitting to search engines is actually an oxymoronic statement - you can
| submit to directories such as yahoo and dmoz, but true search engines
| (crawlers, spiders, search bots etc) find you on their own.
|
| The only way to get listed in search engines like google is to have a link
| from a site already in their database.  You can submit to their site until
| you are blue in the face, and will get nowhere. Worse, it could make them
| mad and penalize your site. Links and relationships are the new economy. If
| you have no friends you will starve.  Make many friends, associations and
| partnerships with similar strong businesses/websites and you will go far.
|
|
| You can read more here
|
| http://www.ask-marketing-experts.com/newthread.php3?s=&action=newthread&foru
| mid=26