By Robin Nobles Contributing Writer Over the last few months, search engine submissions have changed dramatically. Now is the time to analyze the way we’re submitting our Web pages and to rethink our submission strategies. Regretfully, I still see people paying big bucks to search engine submission services who will submit their pages to thousands of search engines for one “low price.” What they aren’t told is that the act of “submitting” their pages has nothing to do with top search...

Properly optimized web sites can achieve top rankings in web search results. But when search engines change, should you follow suit? Even the experts disagree. A special report from the Search Engine Strategies conference, August 8-11, 2005, San Jose, CA. Search engine marketing is based on algorithms—those unpublished formulas by which search engines determine how to rank websites. Most search marketers spend a fair bit of time contemplating algorithms—how they work, what they’re looking for, ...