When to submit?

When to submit?

Its best to start submitting the website address to the relevant search engines and directories as soon the website is ready.

If the website is still under construction, many of the search engines and especially the directories will not index the website.


When does the Search Engine list the website?

As soon as you submit to search engines and directories through the 'add a site' or suggest an URL' facility, they give you a message that it has received your submission and it may be indexed in due course of time. The time duration varies from search engine to search engine. Some do it online as soon as you submit and some others might take upto 12 weeks to index the web site.
The rough time periods are as follows:
Immediate: Mastersite, Arelis,
1-4 weeks: Altavista, Infoseek, All the web
4-8 weeks: Hotbot, Inktomi, Lycos, MSN Search. Webcrawler
4-12 weeks: Google, Yahoo, Open Directory


When do I need to repeat the submission?

Repeated submission is really to ensure that your website has a better chance of getting listed. There are chances that it might get missed the first few times you submit. Also, when your website is new, one does make more changes in it in the beginning/initial stages then later on. So it's a good idea to repeat submissions (like once in a month) so that these changes are reflected in the search engine listing.
But doing it too often can be seen as a spam by the search engines and they might rmove your site as well as debarr the site from being listed.

DreamSubmit Pro 4.0 takes care of this repeating manual submission twice and epeating the auto submission once a month for a whole year.


When does one submit updates?

Its a good idea to resubmit the website address when you update or change a lot of information on the website. Its not necessary to keep re-submitting for small changes that are done to the website. Some of the search engines give weightage for updates to the contents of the website.