Submitting Your Site to Search Engines

Great, the hard part is done. The next step is to submit your web site to the
search engines. You have three options:

Visit each search engine and submit your site manually (this takes a lot of time, but I've found that I get better results.) To add your site, look at the bottom of the search engines main page for a link to Add URL or similar text. I submit my site once a month to keep it listed with the search engines. Here are some links to help you get started:

Google: http://www.google.com/addurl.html - Great Engine!
Open Directory: http://dmoz.org/add.html - This directory is used by a lot of other engines, so be sure to get listed here.
Yahoo-How to suggest a site: https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/submit
Search Engine Listing: http://personalweb.about.com/cs/searchengines/
Yahoo's List of Search Engines - Topic specific search engines.
You may opt to use some of the free submission services on the web. If you use mass submission services, do not use your regular email address, use a free Hotmail or Yahoo email address.
Search Engine Registration: http://www.selfpromotion.com
About.com's Get Linked to Search Engines

When you are a rich and famous web designer, I would recommend purchasing the Site Submission software packages (You can register with 1,000s of engines at one time.)
Wizard Software: http://www.exploit.com/wizard/index.html

Additional Resources
Read this article on site promotion at Jim World
http://jimworld.com/
Additional promotion tips from CNet's Builder.com
All About Meta Data
HotWired Webmonkey META tips
http://www.hotwired.com/webmonkey/html/96/51/index2a.html
Search Engine Watch - Learn a lot about search engines!
http://www.searchenginewatch.com
How to Use META tags
http://www.searchenginewatch.com/webmasters/article.php/2167931 A MUST READ!!!!!
Virtual Promote - Awesome site!
http://www.virtualpromote.com/
Search Engine Tactics - The is a free e-book
http://www.jayde.com/set/searchen.html
Search Engine Features Char:
http://www.searchenginewatch.com/webmasters/article.php/2167891 Great info
on Engines!! Their main site http://searchenginewatch.com is a wonderful
resource! I think I've already mentioned this!
Search Engine Tutorial for Web Designers - Great!
http://www.northernwebs.com/set/index.html
An Extensive list of META resources - Good info, but needs to be updated.
http://www3.extension.umn.edu/people/fhoefer/internet/metatags.htm
MetaSpy
http://www.metaspy.com/ Top search phrases
Promotion World
http://www.promotionworld.com/
After you have submitted your site to the various engines, you can use a web position analyzer program to check the status of your site. (Note: It may take a couple of weeks for your site to be indexed on the search engine.)
WebPosition Analyzer: http://www.promotion-software.com/webposition/ Be sure to check the rest of their site.

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