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You may have been under the impression that submitting your website to hundreds of search engines could boost your organic traffic, and improve your rankings in the long run. Then again, you know that it would take hours to submit your site to hundreds of search engines, and anything other than manual submission is out of the question. When search engines like Google, Yahoo, and MSN are dominating the search engine market because of their ability to automatically index new websites, you might wonder what the point of suggesting a url is anyways.

The biggest search engines of them all, Google, along with Yahoo and MSN are constantly searching the web for new websites and pages to index. LookLinkLove was actually indexed days after it’s creation because of links pointed towards it from popular websites. The common misconception of most people have is that suggesting a url will help get your site listed sooner. On the contrary though, suggesting a url just puts that website in a queue to be indexed behind thousands of other websites. That’s why sites like Google say that it make take up to 6 weeks for a site to be reviewed and indexed.

It’s easiest for you to just allow your site to be indexed naturally. If you were to link to a new site in your signature at a popular forum like Digitalpoint, then google’s spiders would follow the links back to your site and index it pronto. Basically, there is no need for you to suggest a url to your website, unless it was formerly blacklisted by google and the content has since changed.

Listed Downsides:

• Puts your site in the back of a six week queue
• Wastes your time
• A lot more complicated than just putting a link in your forum signatures
• Completely pointless?

Sorry for this short post, just consider it a quick tip sort of thing. Now you’re aware that submitting your site to search engines is probably one of the most pointless SEO tactics.

Let me Cut to the Chase:

This post is all in good fun, I don’t actually think old people are dunce because they don’t use IE, and I don’t think people that use IE in general are stupid. The post was written in a rather offensive writing style, but please be aware that I’m just joking around. So, with that in mind, everything thing I say can and will be held against me, but I don’t mean most of it.

There are currently two browsers that dominate the internet, one of which sucks, and one that everybody loves. Of course everyone already knows that these two browsers are Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer. What you might not know is that Internet Explorer users are either afraid of change, senile, or they don’t use the computer much. When people don’t use their computer very much, it obviously wouldn’t matter if they used internet explorer or Mozilla Firefox, partially because they had no idea either one of them existed.

Many people just refer to their internet explorer, as Internet. If they found out of another way to connect to the internet then they would probably explode and spurt guts of stupidity all over their bedroom. Nipping the bud from the very beginning is the best thing someone could do. I would find it humorous, and a great justice if the default homepage for new microsoft computers was mozilla.com instead of msn.

Think about it though, if someone pointed a finger at you and asked you which program you wanted to use to surf the internet, before you knew anything about either program, which you would use? I’m guessing most of you would’ve answered firefox. Despite your answer being plenty biased already… I would’ve chosen it because Mozilla Firefox sounds way cooler than Internet Explorer.Then again, if it was my first time on the computer, and someone sat me down, and told me to choose between firefox or Internet Explorer then I doubt I would notice that Firefox was better.

You have to be tech savvy to really enjoy the wonders of Firefox, their marketing scheme, and the pretty colors in their logo. Maybe, if you were a natural to the internet, then you could sit down and decide that Firefox was better than IE7 without batting an eyelid.

Despite Internet Explorer User’s lack of intelligence, many of them can vouch for their precious IE7. For example (not a very good one), I tried switching my dads computer from IE7 to Firefox. I thought I was doing him the biggest favor by switching his browsers. He ended up yelling at me and forcing me to switch it back. I don’t know whether this is because he missed his bookmarks, or because genuinely liked IE7 better than Firefox. I know one thing for certain though; being senile definitely had something to do with it.

I feel distanced from all Internet Explorer users, probably because they have different interests than me. Seriously the only people that use it are the people that are to stupid to change it, don’t see any point in changing it, or don’t have the time to change it. I’ve had to change the browser to FF for both of my parents, so obviously old people are dunce when it comes to internet browsing software. To be honest though, as long as you don’t plan on spending a lot of time on the internet, and enjoying a feature rich experience isn’t in your best interest, than it really doesn’t matter which browser you use.

My feelings towards internet explorer users are left alone in the outside world though. My computer class had to use internet explorer because that’s what comes installed on the computer. Being built in to the computer seems to make the program more trustable… The truth is, I haven’t used IE7 on my computer since I used it to find firefox and download it. When I’ve turned on my Internet Explorer to check how a web page looks in that browser, I get some random popup and for some reason a bunch of toolbars are hovering over the content.

If you want a good internet browsing experience, then go with Firefox… If not for any of the reason above, then get it because of the cool addons. If everyone was as educated as you now are about the two leading internet browsers, the lead dev and his mom would be the only people using Internet Explorer 7.

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In a perfect world, only the websites people like would be at the top of the search engine results. In a perfect world, webmasters would focus only on building up their content so that people wanted to read it. In a perfect world, Search Engine Optimization Does. Not. Exist. Google is trying harder and harder to stop webmasters from gaming their websites to the top of the search engines. I’m assuming that they’ll never be able to completely end webmaster’s ability to purchase success.

A friend brought this to my attention when he told me that most webmaster’s were spammers. Buying, selling, and trading links are all against google’s wishes. Though Google is not the law of the internet, they’re plenty powerful to make it seem so. As far as I’m concerned, Google is right to deem the actions of certain webmasters’ wrong, or right.

Think about it, if the websites with the best content were at the top of all your search results, you and everyone else would get the information they really wanted. Unfortunately for your search for greater knowledge, depending on a webmaster’s ability to get people to link to him, he’s able to put any site he wants at the top of the search results. To me, it’s spam when you put a link on your site just because you were paid to.

Don’t get me wrong though, I have no problem profiting from people advertising on my website. Google does it with their contextual advertising company, Text-Link-Ads does it, Kontera does it, John Chow Does it, and so do many other websites. I feel so redundant right now I think I should end this post, but I’m ending it knowing you’ll see SEO in a new light. If you see the flaws of your old disgusting SEO habits, then repent, and try social networking. Since only the good stuff really gets popular, it’s not as spammy as Search Engine Optimization.