Search Engine Submissions

You get listed in their Small Business Directory (those incoming links are valuable to Google), you get to see the MSN search terms that brought people to your site or similar sites, you get automated tools to spider your site and test for optimization. Other sites like WPromote offer a guarantee to get you listed in the major search engines in 48 hours, for a cost of $50 per month. They use specialized techiniques for website submission, including genuine search engine submission, sponsored listings and paid inclusion, and then submit your site, using our superior proprietary submission software, to every other search engine and re-submit every 30 days thereafter.

Search Engine Submissions Companies

AddMe is "a leading resource for webmasters and small-business owners specialized in website submission and promotion in the search engines". They also have a free site submission form that submits your website to 14 search engines, and a paid professional version that will submit your site once a month to over 100 engines for a year, with included keyword tools, ranking reports, popularity link reports, etc.

Check out SearchEngineWatch.com as well - they have an entire section devoted to the essential of search engine submission - intro to search engine submissions, submitting to directories, submitting to crawlers, submitting to paid listings, etc.

Please read our other articles for information on:
Search Engine Placement Tips
Search Engines Tricks
Getting Web Traffic
HTML Meta Tags