International Commerce International Marketing Internet Advertising Internet Economy Internet Media Internet Prod. Commentary Online Advert. This week, I'll cover submissions and monitoring. Submitting and Registering Your Site Correctly Each search engine and directory has specific criteria and requirements when accepting a request to be listed in its database. For the best results, it is common professional practice to submit all URLs by hand.
Some people like to use submission software programs.
If you do use them, it's doubly important to comply with each search engine's guidelines. When you submit your pages, you reveal your location and IP address to the engine or directory. So if you abuse the engine's or directory's submission guidelines, you may find your IP address blocked from future submissions. You can drill in from there and follow the instructions as you go. Depending on the engine, when a Web site has dynamically generated Web pages, it is possible to identify several static pages.