SE Submissions

[Fonz]

Best thing to do is to let the SE's find you on their own. Also I don't think galleries are the best way to get SE traffic since the SE game has become a lot more complicated these last years.

[nomad]

Originally Posted by Fonz

Best thing to do is to let the SE's find you on their own. Also I don't think galleries are the best way to get SE traffic since the SE game has become a lot more complicated these last years.

Thanx Fonz,

I don't know how else to get SE traffic. Any hints would be greatly appreciated.

Cheers!

[virgohippy]

Originally Posted by nomad

I don't know how else to get SE traffic. Any hints would be greatly appreciated.

Text, and lots of it.

[nomad]

Originally Posted by virgohippy

Text, and lots of it.

Thanx Virgo,

But in my experience, most TGPs want CLEAN galleries. Not too much text, or they won't list them???

[virgohippy]

Originally Posted by nomad

But in my experience, most TGPs want CLEAN galleries. Not too much text, or they won't list them???

Submitted galleries aren't were you should focus on pulling in SE traffic. You're better of trying to get SE traffic to pages which list your own galleries.

[nomad]

Originally Posted by virgohippy

Submitted galleries aren't were you should focus on pulling in SE traffic. You're better of trying to get SE traffic to pages which list your own galleries.

So, in other words I should build another site listing all of my galleries on it? That would take forever, considering I have thousands of galleries out there. Can you post a link of a sample site so that I can understand this better? Like, do you have one that I can look at?

Cheers! :-)

[LD]

Originally Posted by Fonz

Best thing to do is to let the SE's find you on their own.

would that be true of all search engines, even the smaller ones? Or should we even care about the smaller ones?

[Licker4U]

Originally Posted by LusciousDelight

would that be true of all search engines, even the smaller ones? Or should we even care about the smaller ones?

I never submit to any search engines but I get picked up by Yahoo and MSN. Don't know about any others though.

[Maj. Stress]

Originally Posted by LusciousDelight

would that be true of all search engines, even the smaller ones? Or should we even care about the smaller ones?

That depends on how hard you want to work and what you condisder a smaller search engine. A lot of the mid-level search engines are tied one way or another into a major search engines data (sorry I can not find my bookmarked page to show the relation at the moment). Alta Vista and All The Web for example are part of the Yahoo network (inktomi slurp and yahoo slurp).

There are some smaller search engines that you can submit to and there are some smaller search engines that also pull from the bigger networks, so it is up to you to decide if it is worth the effort. I do on occasion pull a sale out of a small search engine I have never heard of. It's not very often tho.

As far as the big 3 go, let em find you and don't waste your time submitting to them. They will find you faster than you can find their submit page.

Edit to add: Before you even worry about search engines, learn basic seo skills. It's not hard.

[LD]

Originally Posted by Maj. Stress

Edit to add: Before you even worry about search engines, learn basic seo skills. It's not hard.

Thanx...for me the difficult thing is the conflicting and out of date info I run accross. Seems there's a lot of folklore about SE...Like that dude on Dragnet, I'm trying to just get the facts...