Search Engines Submission Reports
The purpose of submitting is to register your Web site and its pages with the various search engines so they know you exist and can add your pages to their database. In addition, you'll want to re-submit your pages whenever you make changes that you wish the search engine to be aware of. In many cases, submitting to one search engine will get you listed on many other engines that share the same database.
You may notice that there are fewer engines listed in the Submission Report than in the Ranking Report. This is not a bug in the program. Instead, many engines cannot be submitted to in the automated submitter for one of the following reasons:
- Some engines are Pay Per Click engines. At the time of this writing, these engines included Overture, FindWhat, Bay9, 7Search, Kanoodle, and others. Rather than submitting to these engines, you must go to their site, open an account with your credit card, and bid for top positions.
- Some engines do not allow you to submit to them directly. Instead, they obtain their results from another major engine's database. For example, at the time of this writing, Inktomi supplies results to Yahoo, AOL, Netscape, Iwon, and others. Therefore, submitting to one Inktomi partner such as MSN will allow you to become indexed at all other Inktomi based search engines.
Submission Report ~ Pages Submitted Successful
The Submitter report will give you current time estimates for each engine so you'll know what to expect. However, an engine at any time could choose to delay their indexing beyond the "norm" for maintenance or other reasons. On the flip side, you could get lucky and it could be submitted just a couple days before an engine does a complete refresh of their database. Therefore, submission times can never be an exact science since we're all ultimately at the mercy of the engine.
