Overuse of Search Engine Submission
Search engine submission is perhaps the strangest, most useless SEO tactic I can think of. The term itself only mentions submitting a site to the search engines. I recently moved to a new location. One of the first things I did was to ’submit’ my address change to the post office, but I only did it once. It never occured to me to repeatedly submit this information on where I could be found.
This is not to say that submission does not have it’s place. I could see where submitting my info to the postal service once would ensure that I have the best possible chance of my mail (traffic) getting to me in a hurry. But lets face it, if I’m not an interesting person and I have bad manners, I’m not going to get a lot of fan mail (visitors).
Instead of constantly informing the post office of where I live in an attempt to gain fan mail, I’d imagine that I would have to improve who I was, how many people I knew, and the quality of people I knew in order to increase my fan mail. Of course we all know that you can get tons of mail from applying for credit cards or entering to win a new car with that little box by the supermarket door, but loads of junkmail doesn’t help my need for quality fan mail.
If it’s fan mail that I want I could even find a pen-pal service and get connected to many others who are looking for someone to write back and forth. This gives much better quality than the junkmail, but reciprocal links … umm, writing… takes quite a bit of effort and a whole lot of background checking or you’ll wind up writing to people who will get you in trouble! Next thing you know, I’m being investigated for consorting with known felons and two beats of the heart later, my mailing address is banned and I can never receive mail at that address again… not good.
Nope, the best way to get loads of high quality fan mail specifically addressed to me is to become an optimized website… umm, a better person. Add new qualities and pursue interests that appeal to the people I want to write me. Providing community service may give me a chance to get my picture in the spotlight and stir up some interest in who I am. Before you know it, I have friends coming out all over and powerful opportunities start opening up for me. Meanwhile, the guy down the block keeps checking an empty mailbox, stomping his feet, and paying someone else a fortune to fill out the submission form for the local post office. Maybe someone should tell him to wash his hair and wear clean clothes. nah, there’s someone now offering to fill out 20,000 forms for the post office… ooh, and they’ll do it every month…. must be worth it. Good luck, buddy.