Submit Multiple Pages to Search Engines

Something that a lot of people I talk to about search engine submissions get quite bothered about is exactly which pages of their websites will be submitted to search engines. How many pages will you submit for the price. If I add new pages, will you submit them for me as well?

In a previous article I mentioned that I virually never submit anything to Google, but as for other search engines I generally will only submit the home page of your site through the Add URL submission box.

In the case of search engines, they all use a crawler to index the rest of your site. Allowing them to do this allows the search engine to establish the hierarchy of your site, the importance of pages that have the most internal links etc. If you keep starting off the crawler from a different location than the home page you are in danger of downgrading some of the important pages, or at least knocking the hierarchy of information on the site into a skewed perspective.

In the case of human edited directories, your home page is all they need to know about. If your title and description is written well you will have covered the main subject of your site and it will bring visitors based on that text. The editors do not need to receive multiple submissions for each section. If you press ahead with multiple submissions you are more likely to get the entire site dropped from that directory.

So in general, submitting all of your pages to each search engine is a pointless task and should be avoided. Worse, it can actually harm your listings so my advice is to avoid whenever possible.