Top SEO Mistakes Part 2
Posted on May 5, 2008 by
Rosanne Lim 
SEO 
5 Comments
In the previous post, Top SEO Mistakes Part 1, we have tacked why untargeted keywords, insufficient optimized body text, and not using title tags have an adverse effect on your SEO. In this second part, we will look into two of the other top SEO mistakes:
1. Submitting your site to “1,000″ search engines
Some people fall for the hype “We’ll submit your website to 1,000 search engines”. Don’t use a SEO company that advertises this kind of service. This is because you don’t need to submit to a thousand search engines to receive web traffic. More than 90% of all web traffic is generated by Google and other search engines in the top 10.
In addition, minor search engines usually use the database found in the major search engines so you don’t need to submit your site to these search engines anyway. Several of the “1,000 search engines” may also be Free for All (FFA) websites which can even damage your reputation because search engines consider FFA to be of low quality and which uses spam techniques to falsify link popularity. So basically, you just need to make sure that you have submitted your site to the top 10 search engines; most of them also have regional versions as well.
2. Resubmitting Too Often
You’ve already submitted your optimized site to search engines but it’s been a month and you’re still not getting any traffic. Is this the time to resubmit? No. Some search engines take up to ten weeks before it indexes your site. Also, there is really no need to resubmit because once you’re on the database; the search engines will know what the site is about and the “robot” will regularly re-index the site to achieve relevant results for the search engine. The only time that resubmission is necessary is if your URL changes or if the domain drops out of the database.
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Submission to search engines itself is useless. Indexing should not be the goal, ranking should be. If a site is indexed but on page 5 hardly anyone is going to visit it. Submitting to search engines is useless, links are what’s necessary to rank currently.
I don’t know why many people think it will help them get a lot of traffic if they submit to all search engines they can find. Anyway it’s good that you mentioned about it.
I feel like I’ve read this type of list 500 times since 2002. Hasn’t this topic been beaten to death?
I feel that this topic is still being written about because it is still relevant..
That’s right, the topic is still relevant because daily there are newbies that start opening their eyes on the Internet. Being newbies, they didn’t read the tips for 500 times since 2002 :-)