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Trying to submit a website to search engines on my own. Anyone know of free ones?

I have a website that markets work at home job and provides hundreds of ideas, resources, ect. I am trying to get it submitted to search engines AND increase my hits. Anyone have any suggestions on how I can do it on my own, without paying any money to companies that do it?

Public Comments

1. You can submit your website address to Google, Yahoo and other big search engines by simply going to their website and clicking on a link that says "submit a web address" and it takes a few days for them to add it to their database. Keep in mind, simply doing this will not increase your traffic. You need to promote your website on any and all marketing materials you have. Also, you can use Google Analytics to help you track your traffic and once you see where its coming from you can spend more time focusing on that source of traffic.
2. Hi. You can submit your site to addme.com and submitexpress.com in addition to doing what the previous poster replied. Hope this helps! Please visit my blog at www.garyfarnam.org for technology tips and articles.
3. I think that it's totally useless to submit the websites to the search engines: this feature has been disabled for spam reasons. The only way you can get indexed in Google is when you implement a good link building campaign as explained in this seo resource http://www.seo-guru.net/link-building-techniques.html/practices-seo-link-building.html
4. This is a better way and save you time: For a small charge you can have a “Permanent” website advertisement placed in an index such as this in a choice of around 750 categories to target your business trade. This will raise your website profile and increase its chances of extra sales because this site is indexed by the search engines placing your site within public searches. The advantage of a site like this is that you don’t have to update your listing again. For a permanent ongoing promotion: http://www.search-the-world.com/form/listing
5. i don't know who misinformed you that by submitting your site to search engine you will get traffic. actually if you ask the expert all of them don't encourage you to submit your site. it is just a waste of time. you need to learn SEO. you will came across with a lot of conflicting opinions on SEO. the reason is because nobody knows for sure what is the search engine algorithm to rank site. it is all their speculation based on their research and test. i will tell you know it requires a lot of knowledge and work to gain traffic thru the search engine. if you don't like to compete i don't think you would get any traffic from search engine. there are million of website so only the better one will be shown on the search engine result page. so if you want to compete in online biz and want to learn seo go to my site and check out website building section. there you will know what is SEO.
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