Stage 3 in SEO – Search Engine Submission
The search engines need to know your site exists, so they can index it and rank it in the search results. Most search engines have an online form you can use to do this (here is Google’s, Live Search (formally MSN) and Yahoo’s – you have to sign up for a free free Yahoo account).
However, there are many, many more search engines out there so an automatic submission tool is a real help. You can use specialised SEO submission software or websites like www.freewebsubmission.com. It is a good idea to have a separate email account/address for search engine submission so all the replies, confirmations and newsletters (some may think it spam!) don’t get mixed in with your normal email.
Search engine submission was once very important and you could pay a lot of money to have your site submitted. But you really only need to do it once, if at all, since the search engines should find your site anyway by following links from other websites. In fact, some experts think search engines ‘prefer’ (i.e. rank more highly) sites found in this way.
Posted: November 11th, 2006 under Basic SEO, Search Engine Submission.
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Comment from SirCommy
Time: December 13, 2007, 12:42 pm
Indeed, most search engines find your site automatically, most at least or those that have an engine installed which automatically starts indexing websites.
But there are many websites out there that subscribe your URL to many free search engines (for free), no longer the hassle we were going through some while back, where it was taking days or weeks to have our websites submitted in search engines and/or directories. And of course, as minor or as unknown some search engines are, they’re still valuable for your site’s popularity. And one must never forget, applying the basic SEO is always best and still the strongest way of getting your site ranked better in keywords and content. Well, I won’t get in too many details about SEO, this isn’t the proper category 
Cheers
Comment from dan
Time: December 13, 2007, 2:30 pm
Yes, the big search engines (Google, Yahoo!, MS Live) find sites through following links.
But, as you say, there are many smaller search engines and directories out there. They are worth submitting to because it takes little effort and you never know, it may result in some traffic or higher rankings.
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