"I've built quite a nice business not worrying about whether the latest Google spider finds me. I've never submitted to search engines, and think of anything that comes from a search engine as gravy.
So, what's my secret?
Old Fashioned Marketing. I have a few well placed online ads, print ads for my target audience, and I attend and exhibit at trade shows where people can meet me and see the site.
You can spend all your time optimizing a web site for Google, only to have Google miss you one month. I've read too many horror stories from people here who have relied solely on search engines. " txbakers