Can I submit my site to a search engine for free? If so, what search engine and how.?

I want my site to be recognized.

You can do but it is a waste of time, no professional webmaster has done so for years.

Search engines 'spider' the web looking for new sites/pages and it is best if they find sites/pages naturally in this way.

Although you should not submit your url to the search engines you must have some inbound links that the spiders can follow http://www.seo-blog.com/inbound-links.php

You can hand submit to appropriate directories http://www.seo-blog.com/directory-links.php to obtain your initial inbound links.

http://www.siteowner.com/sifree.cfm

http://www.uswebsites.com/submit/

http://submitit.bcentral.com/msnsubmit.htm

http://www.submitplus.com/freesubmit.php

http://freewebsubmission.com/link.html

Note: I would make a new e-mail address through yahoo or gmail or whatever to use as your submit email addy....because sometimes they like to send lots of spam.

another program that drives traffic to my site is http://www.changinglinks.com . you have to just put that link somewhere on your page, but it does generate browsers that are surfing changing links.

You don't need to submit your site to search engines in 2007. This is something of the past. My websites get top rankings, and I don't submit them to search engines.

You need to add your URL to a site which is already trusted and spidered bu Google.

Here is what you need to do:

1) Go to ezinearticles.com
2) Register
3) Choose a topic
4) Write an article
5) Add a resource box (with a link to your site)
6) You are done.

Google, and then other search engines will find your website easily.

Here is one of my articles as an example:
http://ezinearticles.com/?5-Proven-Secrets-To-Become-Striking-Rich-On-The-Internet!id=575406

The most effective way to advertise on the Internet is to first set up a website and publish its domain name on major search directories such as Google.com, Yahoo.com [at http://www.google.com/addurl/?continue=/addurl] and MSN.com since 85% of Internet shoppers rely on these search directories to provide them with goods and services. In a sense, these search directories are a very large Internet Yellow Pages.

You may want to consider some simple algorithms which, when observed and committed in designing of a website with placement of various critical metatags that can surely achieve a high search engine presence and increase Internet traffic to your website. These metatag strategies work well with published webpages at Google and Yahoo.

Design: Should you create an extensive Flash-based website, make sure to fill-in the property entries such as the Title, Description and Keywords. Failing to do so, leaves no hard HTML or ALT resource that can be readily indexed by search robots.

A non-Flash-based website which relies on hard text, is far easier to be indexed by search robots. Limit the use of stylized text saved as .gifs since as a graphic, they are not indexable by search robots.

Avoid use of frames since any number of search robots are unable to properly classify textual material.

Placement of Metatags:

A ranking or search order does take place with Google and Yahoo and it begins with the Title metag which should consist of no more than 65 characters separated by commas. The Title should describe in generic terms, the goods and services, followed by a location from which the resource is located, i.e., city, state. The placement of a domain name which is not generic within the Title is not appropriate, unless your domain name is a major recognizable brand name.

The second metatag is the Description which is usually 25-30 words to form a complete sentence which best describes one's goods and services.

And the very last category - Keywords are also somewhat limited to 15-16 words which can be plural and compound in nature. Again, avoid multiple entries which could be mistaken as spamdexed entries which is defined as the loading, and submission of repetitive words into a particular metatag category. Spamdexing when discovered on a webpage and reported to Google's spamreport.com can result in the elimination of your website from their search directory.

Here's an example of a very highly-placed website on Yahoo.com: Begin with the search query pizza downtown los angeles. It will bring up some 1.4 million+ websites as results. Check out where Pizza Next Door is ranked. It's in the Top Five! Again, Pizza Next Door's high web presence was achieved by proper web design and placement of relevant metatags according to Yahoo's publication guidelines.

Good luck!

You should manually submit to Google and Yahoo websites, the rest are more hard, I have published a complete list of submit locations for the various search engines and directories here --- http://www.seowebsiteadvice.com/search-engine-submit-locations/

The Best Way to submit you website to most important Search Engines is here:

http://www.submitexpress.com/submit.html

They submit very fast.

I use the connections I've made at Direct Matches to enhance my website on search engines. I joined for free and met other net-workers who were able to help build my business.

You have the option to stay as a free member so take advantage of this opportunity. The option is all up to you.
I learn how to increase traffic to my website, exchange links and obtain free lead capture pages from the inter net.
Another website is www.squidoo.com you can create blogs for your site for free.This helps push your website to the front of search engines.

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