Avoid free website submission services

If you are looking for a free search engine submission service, you will find many scams.  In fact, there is no real reason anymore to use a free site submit service to get your web site listed in the major search engines. And submission to the smaller search engines will hardly bring you any traffic. Further more, site submission to Free For All link pages can get your site banned from some major search engines. So, my advice is to avoid free web site submission services and certainly never pay for such general search engine submission services.

How to get your site listed in search engines.

The first rule on effective search engine submission is to get your site listed in Google. Although you can manually submit your site to Google, the best way to get listed is to let the search engine find you. To achieve this you need to get links from other web sites and the easiest way to do that is to exchange links. Just find some similar web sites and email their web master to request a link exchange. If this is your first link, don't go for the big established web sites. They'll just ignore you. Find other small web sites and you may get lucky and get your first links.

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When you have a number of links pointing at your web site, most of the other search engines will now also find your web site and start listing you as well. Mind you, it may take several weeks before you will get the fist visitors from these search engines. but you can use that time to learn about search engine optimisation (SEO).

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If after a month of two your site is still not listed at the other major search engines, you can submit your web site manually to them as well.  Here is the free site submit page for MSN, which gets your site listed in Inktomi. Many other search engines, such as Yahoo, Lycos and Hotbot, use Inktomi for their search results.

After your site is listed, you should not submit your site again and you do certainly not have to use a web site submission service again.