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Submitting URL's to Search Engines
First off, thank the internet gods for Google,
because without it the world wide web would be a world wide mess.
The other day i spent some time submitting
a new website to various search engines and i soon learned why
this was a task i had previously avoided. Search engines are as
much sleazy slimeballs as purveyors or porn.
Why do they need all kinds of information
from me just to get them to send their search spider to my website
to catalogue it? Smells like spam to me.
Worse, why do they want money just to get
them to send their search spider to my website to catalogue it?
Smells like a scam to me.
I know the search engines provide a service
and it costs money to provide that service. It is even okay that
they charge money for higher rankings, although it is a debatable
practice. But to charge money to submit a site is just plain wrong.
Isn't it counter-productive to both sides? I want my site listed
on search engines and what is a search engine without an extensive
listings of websites.
This behaviour is one thing from the small
underfunded and/or niche search engines, but it is inexplicable
from the big players.
And guess who were the worst offenders that
i came across. Yep, that would be Yahoo and Microsoft. Surprisingly
AOL allowed for
free submissions through the Open
Directory Project. Microsoft
charge $149 big ones and takes up to eight weeks to catalogue
your website, or will do it in two days for $299. Yahoo
charges an annual fee of $299 to have your site in their listings.
Jerks, jerks, jerks! Greedy mutha@#$%ing bastards. Yeah right,
see you chumps way later.
Google
was the only search engine who made the submitting proces easy,
requiring only the URL and not having extraneous information requirments
or inundating you with junk and schemes to get better rankings
and asking for money and all that kind of stuff that cheeses up
the internet, making it some sort of extension of the irritating
infomercial scam.
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Gimme
your two bits worth.
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