Q. Which search engines and directories do you submit to?

A. Click here to see our current submission list.

Q. What is the best resubmission frequency? Why would I want the quarterly or annual resubmission schedule when I can get 12 submissions per year from the monthly schedule? 

A. Website submission is not your goal. Website submission is only a vehicle to help you achieve your true goal, which is to get high-quality targeted traffic coming to your website from people searching for your product, service, or information. The purpose of resubmitting your site is to get your website changes properly indexed in the search engines. Therefore, you should select the resubmission frequency based on how often you make changes to your website. If you update pages and add new pages all the time, then monthly resubmission is appropriate for your site. If you rarely make any changes at all, then annual resubmission will be plenty fine to ensure that the search engines don't forget about you. For sites with only minor ongoing changes, quarterly resubmission is probably the best choice.

Q. How long does it take to be listed?

A. Search engines will take as little as a few days to as much as 2 months or more to index your site. After we submit your web site, your URL is stored in each search engine's "temporary" database. At some point, depending on volume, each engine will send a "robot" or "spider" to visit your site and determine whether to index your pages or not. Directories, on the other hand, do not use automated robots. Directories use real people to review your website and decide whether or not to accept your submission.

Note: there is no guarantee that your website will be indexed by a search engine, even after the "robot" or "spider" has visited your site. To maximize your inclusion success rate, be sure to optimize your website content. See our Submission Tips for suggestions to improve your results.

Q. What do you do with my email address and other personal information?

A. We ask for contact information in two sections of our form The first section is information that you choose to share with the search engines and directories. Your name and email address are required. Your mailing address and phone numbers are optional. Some search engines and directories may make all or some of these fields publicly accessible, so in this section, you should only submit information that you are willing to make public.

The next section that requests personal information is your contact information with TrueSubmissions.com. The information you provide here is 100% private and will never be sold, rented, traded, or given to any 3rd party. We will communicate with you on an as-needed basis, using the email address you provide in this section.

Q. How safe is it to submit credit card information on your website?

A. Our website uses high-grade 256-bit Secure Sockets Layer encryption to ensure that all information submitted to us, including credit card information, is safe from prying eyes (or software) during the transmission process. The secure certificate is provided and verified by Starfield Technologies, Inc.

Q. Do you guarantee that my website will be listed on all of the listed search engines and directories?

A. We can not guarantee placement on any search engine or directory because we do not own or control any of the search engines or directories. In exchange for your payment (Basic, Deluxe, or Premium plans) or return link (Free plan), we will submit your site to the engines and directories listed on our Submission Site List page (per selected plan). Each search engine and directory will then follow its own procedures to review or not review your site and to list or not list your site. Your site submission will receive the same consideration as if you submitted your site on your own, except that we save you the countless hours that it would take for you to manually submit your information to hundreds of search engines and directories.

Q. After I submit my sites, am I done or is there more that I need to do?

A. Site submission is just the first step in your overall traffic generation strategy. Once you are listed, what are you going to do to optimize your ranking in the search engine results? There are many factors that each search engine and directory will consider and each has its own proprietary method to determine the position that your site gets for any given search term. Not only is it different from one search engine to the next, each search engine is continually modifying their methods to obtain their own objectives. Nonetheless, there are some cornerstone concepts that will always be relevant for all search engines and directories, such as providing in-depth and well-written content, the number of websites that link back to you (unpaid and non-reciprocal preferred), having relevant and complete meta tag information in your HTML code, keyword density, and a whole lot more. Please read through our Submission Tips for a better understanding of what you can do to improve your ranking in the search engine results.

Q. I have additional questions that are not answered here.

A. Please submit your question via our Contact Form and we will reply back to you as quickly as we can.