Around the same time (early 2000’s) that I started Submission-Spider, I cranked out Yip! Submit (YipSubmit.com).

It was basically a multi-site search engine submission software for Windows written in Visual Basic. Submission-Spider would submit one site at a time, but with Yip! Submit you could submit as many sites as you wanted, all at once. It would also spider your web site, find all the links to all your pages, and then individually submit each page to the search engines automatically.

People really wanted that feature because back then the search engines weren’t as sophisticated about spidering all the links on a web site, so submitting them all could help get your site indexed more completely.

It was obviously geared towards webmasters and people who had multiple web sites.

I could have built that feature into the Submission-Spider, but I figured it would be more profitable to crank it out into a whole new piece of software, change the name to something goofy, and market it as a whole new product.

That way I could market it to my current list of Submission-Spider customers.

Backend…it’s all about the backend.

The software was moderately successful though nowhere as successful as the Submission-Spider, but that’s understandable since I was essentially marketing it to past Spider customers. So you’d only expect a fraction of those customers to purchase the software.

Plus I held the price up at around $99, since I was marketing it as a “professional” tool. After cranking out a hundred bucks for Submission-Spider, you wouldn’t expect the majority of people to turn around and spend another hundred right away on Yip… so i marketed it to past customers gradually over time.

Like the Submission-Spider, when the search engine industry consolidated into basically just Google and a distant Bing/Yahoo, there was no longer a need for software such as this. The website is still there, but it no longer accepts orders.