A good automatic submission program is quite
undetectable if you do it right. So what constitutes a
"good" submitter? To qualify, the program must:
- Convey the correct referral (submission) URL.
- Transmit all required data (e.g. email address, where
required).
- Use the engine's specific correct submission syntax (by
no means a given - this requires extensive and regular
updates).
- Allow for customizable submission limits (e.g. 5 pages
per domain and day).
- Apply realistic time delays when submitting multiple
pages (this would typically mimic manual submission
speed).
- Check submission pages for availability (else, it will
generate an error message, wasting the search engines'
system resources and bandwidth).
- Offer extensive submission reports including snapshots
of search engine error message pages to remediate faulty
submission processes and/or schedule resubmissions if
required.
- Implement scheduled submission requiring no human
monitoring.
- Support as many bona fide search engines (including
their international web properties) as feasible.
(Submitting to hundreds if not thousands of purported
"search engines", most of which being, in reality, mere
FFA link farms, won't do you any good whatsoever - on the
contrary, it will only serve to provoke a flood of spam
mail.)
For a very affordable (registration is only $15) but
powerful client based application I would recommend
TraficStudio's excellent dumpTruck:
< http://www.trafficstudio.com/dumptruck/ >
For a more professional server based solution, check out
our own fantomas subFrog PRO(TM) which allows for
unlimited URL submissions and cron job scheduling (Unix
systems only):
< http://fantomaster.com/fasubfrog0.html >
About the Author
Ralph Tegtmeier is the co-founder and principal of
fantomaster.com Ltd. (UK) and fantomaster.com GmbH
(Belgium), < http://fantomaster.com/ > a company
specializing in webmasters software development,
industrial-strength cloaking and search engine
positioning services. You can contact him at
mailto:fneditor@fantomaster.com