This may be good advice. However, I believe that you should submit manually to MSN for the following reason: this is the number two website on the internet. It gets an enormous amount of traffic, and the traffic that this site brings you can help you with both your rankings, as well as being found by searchers.
ComScore Networworks reports that 48 percent of MSN searchers are more likely to buy, whereas Google searchers are 42 percent likely to buy. Yahoo users are 41 percent more likely to buy. Although these statistics were released in 2005, you can get more information from this site on demographic buying habits of searchers: http://www.comscore.com/
Now, you can use the link below to submit directly to the MSN spider:
http://beta.search.msn.com/docs/submit.aspx
A word of caution here: when submitting to MSN, make sure that you understand the characters in the verification image on this page. You must type them exactly as you see them, or your site won't get submitted.
If your submission is successful, you will see a message that tells you your submission is successful and will ask you if you want to submit another site.
Once you have MSN crawling your site, you shouldn't have to resubmit.
If you follow these steps carefully, you should have no trouble getting your site accepted. Create great content, build links back to your site, and target the correct keywords, and you can get very high rankings.
Article comments
1 - Holly
If you are linking all day to relvant content what determines which site MSN, Yahoo or Google indexes your site? Whats the key when trying to focus on a particular search engine? Anyone know?