Add Web

[dvduval]

I haven't made my mind up yet on this one. I'm working with another webmaster, who is trying to promote a site at the request of one of his customers. I emphasized the importance of incoming links and he recommended we use AddWeb:
http://www.addweb.com/products/addweb/
I spoke with the people from AddWeb and they assured me that we could be very selective on who we choose to trade links with.

I've always been a fan of hand submission and for my biggest site, I have as good a PageRank as AddWeb does. I would love to here from supporters as well as Naysayers to help me advise the other webmaster.

One final point: The other webmaster feels that the customer won't be willing to pay for the time involved in hand submission.

I'm going to email a copy of this thread to Bob so he can observe your answers.

[ihelpyou]

That's just another automated submitter thing that thinks it's an optimizer as well. The link thing is automated too and I would Not recommend it at all.

Notice it submits to "thousands" of search engines? LOL

[WebSavvy]

David, not tooting my own horn, but why don't you just use a submission company like mine? Doug has used it and can tell you it's legit. Mel, and BigBlock have used it too.

[dvduval]

OK, I will look into it, but I can't seem to get through to your site right now. I assume you are saying you have product that helps find other legitimate sites that will link to yours.

[ihelpyou]

Yes, Deb uses legit engines and not a bunch of ffa and classified ad sites like addweb uses.

I would not recommend auto submission to the major engines however. Actually, I don't recommend EVER submitting to the major crawler engines. I never have to anyway.

[WebSavvy]

No, David, I have a submission company that submits to niche-market SE's and some majors. So the link is in a category that's on topic for your clients products.

Right now my webhost (cyberwings.com) is suffering a bandwidth issue and is looking for another NOC to co-locate. I am hoping they will get this resolved real soo.

[dvduval]

Yes, I've checked a few times in the last couple of days to no avail, but I'll be sure to keep checking. Thanks for the update.

[WebSavvy]

They found a new NOC in Virginia. The date for live is Saturday/with Sunday at the latest.

I will be very happy to get the sites back up again!

[Dan0]

Deborah:

Do you handle foreign search engines? I got a customer who's looking for help with European SEs, and I'm "less than fully informed" on the subject.

Dan

[WebSavvy]

Hi Dan0,

Yes, I do handle foreign search engine submission. Right now the submissions go through about 221 countries.

The SE's that are used are foreign but in English. There are a few that are in their native language of Spanish, German, French, and Japanese.