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Date: 5 Oct 2006 20:02:56 -0700
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> SS4 wrote:
>
> > This is going to be my very first time of search engine submission. My web
> > site is not ready to show, lets suppose that my url is www.myweb.com. I
> > mainly want people visit www.myweb.com/cat and www.myweb.com/dog.
> >
> > Should I submit www.myweb.com/cat and www.myweb.com/dog to search engines
> > separately? Will they penalize me for this?
> >
> > Should I just submit only my main url www.myweb.com?
>
> Yes, submit ONLY your home page to search engines.  Your home page
> should link directly to both www.myweb.com/cat and www.myweb.com/dog.
>
> The ONLY search engines that you need submit to are:  Google, Yahoo,
> and MSN.
>
> If your site is really big you can submit sitemaps to both Google and
> Yahoo, in text format or whatever.

Of course, don't submit your site until it is ready to be seen.

The urls for submission are:
http://www.google.com/addurl/?continue=/addurl
https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/submit
http://search.msn.com/docs/submit.aspx?FORM=WSDD2

The reason you submit your site to a search engine is because you want
it to be found by the public.  So, it is always best to submit it
directly to a search engine in order to speed up the process.  It is a
long process to build up to a high page rank.  Google has what has been
called the Google Sandbox, where new sites are intentionally listed
very slowly.  So, the sooner you submit the better.

Who says so?  I do.