Website indexing on Google, Yahoo! and Bing is the first action a webmaster do by instinct when launching his new website or blog. Manual vs. Automatic, Fast vs. Effective, when come the time to submit your website to search engines and directories, do you manually submit your URL or use an automated website submission software?

Website submission to search engine and directory used to be very time consuming, going through all search engines one by one and manually write your website information without even knowing when your website will ever be included… Many webmaster will just use an automatic service or software to quickly do the submission duties… Is this the good way to submit your website in 2010, SEO wise?

To maximize your chance of ranking high on search engine and building relevant backlinks? An automatic submission software will make you save precious time, however, in 2010, SEO expert prefer manual submission to related niche and high pagerank directories.

To begin with your first submission, the three main search engines to focus on are Google, Yahoo! and Bing, which will send the majority of your visitors. Make sure each pages are optimized for search engine and ready to compete against chosen keywords. Try to avoid submitting your website to hundreds of low traffic and low rated search engine and directories. These sites usually promote online spam instead of your website.

Avoid free and automated submission website that immediately ask for your email and name. In most case, they try to convince you and pretend they will submit your website to thousands of search engines and directories; still, the majority of these fake services never get your site indexed nor submitted to search engine and directory. Anyway, you should avoid website that offer free massive backlink to your website. These links are irrelevant to your site and is barely a factor on your website SERP.

The same apply to online free tool to get high rankings in major search engines. This is totally false and impossible to do using a free hosted tool or service. This process has nothing to do with “SEO” & “SEM”. Some of them may even try to sell you a service, claiming they will have your entire site indexed in only one day, but the fact is that you can do this yourself only by submitting a sitemap to Google, submit URL to Google here and bookmark your website on social bookmarking websites and get some quick link to your new website from forums and blog commenting.

Despite all the facts stated above, I am successfully using Web CEO to submit website and article online. It’s free and very user friendly.