Manual Vs Automated Submission! Which one is the best?
By: ASIF IQBAL | Posted: 13th April 2006
We all know how important link popularity is for better rankings in top search engine like google, yahoo and msn! In this article you'll come to know the linking types and brief comparisons of manual submission and automated submissions.
Comparisons of Automated and Manual Submissions:
Automated Submissions
1. Can't recognize PR of the Search Engine/Directories/Sites
2. Can't recognize Type of the links
3. Will leave few input fields empty or wrong filled
4. Will fail to recognize necessaries fields
5. Can't recognize Title, Description Limits
6. Can't recognize which format keywords should be supplied, either with commas or with spaces
7. It's Fast
8. Unreliable
9. Can't make multiple compositions according to situations
10. Can't read text over images, these days search engine and directories have started putting a image with text to filter automated and manual submissions
11. Majority of the search engines and directories in their database is not validated and checked
12. They are limit to their database, they normally don't have search criteria defined to update their database
13. They can't reply to the validated mail and can't validate the submissions
14. Wrong data input to fields, sometimes company names or contact person are supplied to title
Manual Submissions
1. Manually You can observe real PR of the Search Engine/Directories/Sites
2. Links Type is easily recognizable
3. Will never leave any required field empty
4. Will easily recognize necessaries fields
5. Manually Title and Description Limits can be seen and can be utilized those limits very well
6. Can easily read either in which format keywords are required to supply
7. It's slow but very correct
8. It's 99.99% reliable
9. Manually you can compose multiple titles and descriptions to maximize the benefits of submissions
10. Text over images at the time of submission can be easily seen in manual submission and successfully proceeded to submission
11. Manually you can update the search engines and directories and can have record as well
12. Manually you have no limit, the more you search the more you'll come know about search engines
13. Manually you can validate your mail sent at the time of submission from search engine or directories
14. Manually you have very less chances of wrongly filled data in required fields at the time of submissions
After looking at the comparisons, you can easily know why manual submissions are considered to be good and recommended by professional SEOs. Don't look at the shortcomings and a little ease in automated submission, these shortcomings and little comfort can be a nightmare. Submissions are a very important part of link building campaigns, and if your submissions are made correctly they can play huge rule in link building. Try to submit manually so that you can get the maximum benefits out of it.
More links VS More Valuable Links?
Effective manual submissions can be very useful increasing link value, automated submission can create only more incoming links but effective manual submissions can give those links more value.
A professional submitter should always take care of few things, which can give his/her submissions more value.
Take Care of These Elements When Submitting…
1. Should know the type of the link, going to be visible after submission
2. Should know the limits of title and description
3. Should create multiple titles and descriptions according to limits
4. Should check and re-check those submitted links periodically
5. Always keep passwords and ids save for future updates
About The Author
Asif Iqbal is a Researcher, Analyst, SEO, Trainer, Speaker and Author, specializes in search engine optimization, branding and promotion, and has trained dozens of quality SEOs. He can be reached at asif@asif-iqbal.com, Website Design Services, SEO Outsourcing, SEO Training and Consultancy Services
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