AOL and Lycos URL submission

**frofi** · 12-13-2006, 08:03 PM

I can't figure out how to submit my URL to AOL and Lycos. Does anybody here know how to do it?

**vangogh** · 12-13-2006, 09:30 PM

I've never bothered to look. Submitting your site to search engines is a rather pointless pursuit. It's not going to do anything to help. The best thing to do is get links pointing to your site as I'm sure you already have and let them find you.

Sorry I don't know where to submit on their sites, but it's really not worth the time submitting to them or trying to find out where to submit to them.

**chrishirst** · 12-14-2006, 04:26 AM

AOL results come from Google (Organic and Adwords)

Lycos results come from ASK and Google Adwords

**ablaye** · 12-14-2006, 02:49 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by vangogh

I've never bothered to look. Submitting your site to search engines is a rather pointless pursuit. It's not going to do anything to help. The best thing to do is get links pointing to your site as I'm sure you already have and let them find you.

Sorry I don't know where to submit on their sites, but it's really not worth the time submitting to them or trying to find out where to submit to them.

Yep. Well said. Don't waste your time submitting to search engines. Any good and decent search engines will find you if you link to good sites. Your time is better spend on working on link building.

**hhheng** · 12-15-2006, 05:02 AM

Read Popular Search Engines, there are submit url for most search engines. But if you have backlinks. you don't need to manually submit to SEs.

**dave777** · 11-24-2007, 07:29 PM

Newbie help. Do forum signatures count as backlinks? ie. i've posted over 1000 posts in a particular (public) forum and i'm pretty sure if I add my URL to my signature there, it will show up on all my backposts aswell. Or would that count as only one backlink?

**chrishirst** · 11-24-2007, 08:10 PM

Who knows?

Forum signatures shouldn't be treated as a method of gaining backlinks, it can be useful for gaining visitors, provided your posts are useful and informative.

**JeremyJGreen** · 06-22-2008, 11:18 AM

So what do these companies do that guarantee "You will be on Google within xx days"? Nothing more than back-link generation and going through the same public methods that everyone has at their disposal?

**chrishirst** · 06-24-2008, 06:11 AM

Yep, that's about it

**jyale** · 06-26-2008, 12:46 AM

glad i didt waste my time trying..

**harris** · 07-24-2008, 05:52 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by chrishirst

Who knows?

Forum signatures shouldn't be treated as a method of gaining backlinks, it can be useful for gaining visitors, provided your posts are useful and informative.

Yes you are right...Forum signature are not useless but not very helpful. Yes it is true, you can increase the traffic on your website through forum.

**johnlloyd** · 07-24-2008, 08:29 AM

yep your all right. that forum signatures has a small weight to rank in SERP but has a possibility to more gain traffic!

**pigskinusa** · 08:57 AM

Other then posting my link on forums and submitting my site to the major search engines what other options do I have.

< apart from this one of course >

**Himalayan** · 08-11-2008, 04:10 AM

Target Google that is the only search engine which help you in online market.

**rpmind** · 05-31-2009, 09:54 AM

Anyone that tells you, your wasting your time submitting to Google is an idiot. We submit sites to Google all the time. They get indexed way faster than waiting on googlebot crawler to find you site linked up on some other site.

For example, we submitted a site on May 25th, this past Monday. The site was indexed and crawled by Thursday morning.

The site already places 3rd in the index under "poker run events". The site is NextPokerRun.com.

So quite telling people they are wasting their time submitting to Google the "old-fashioned" way.

**vangogh** · 06-02-2009, 01:59 PM

Considering the search engines themselves say you don't need to submit sites to them I'd say you don't really need to submit sites to them. I don't submit sites and generally get crawled in less time than it took with your submission.

Also do not call anyone on this site an idiot. You can disagree all you want, but show respect for the people here.

**beever** · 08:38 PM

Hi everybody,
I actually found this topic and forum because I went looking for a way to submit to AOL; but now you tell me that is a waste of time. I am not an expert by any means so any advice would be appreciated. The site I have just built (or am still building because it never ends, does it?) is actually for my sister and her partner. I have run the home page through WebCEO a couple of times and it tells me that it is important to register with DMOZ; which I have done, but of course that can take forever to show up. If submission is not important, are you referring to DMOZ as well? And I notice you say that using the link as a signature can be of assistance (albeit very little) which makes me curious. Aren't forums run by database script; and, if so, doesn't that mean that the link will not really show up in the html being read by search engines? Again, let me say, I am no expert so sorry if these are silly questions.
And can anyone give me a few hints on how to get good links? I have been visiting every relative site I can find and sending them emails. Is that good or bad? Oh, and just in case you are right about the signature, I will add it here.
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