How Often do I have to Submit to Search Engines?
How often do I have to submit search engines?– asked by B.C.
These days, you only want to submit your site to the search engines once. Actually, you don’t even have to do that because search engines like Google, Yahoo, and MSN Live will find your site if other sites link to it. Their crawlers will meander around the Internet following links until they eventually discover your site. Once they do, your site doesn’t disappear from the indexes, but stays at least as long as links from elsewhere are pointing to your site. I’m always amazed to see search engine marketing firms that charge customers a fee for monthly submissions, as if Google would forget they indexed a site.
February 19th, 2007 at 3:24 pm
What about the other, smaller engines? Do you have to resubmit on a regular basis?
I noticed that our hits have dropped off dramatically in recent weeks.
February 20th, 2007 at 7:48 pm
Marvin, I am not aware of any search engine, large or small that requires resubmission. I suspect that the traffic loss is due to something else.