If you have published a new blog or website (which has already been search engine optimized) and want to start driving traffic to your site, building back links, and increasing your search engine positioning and prominence, you must absolutely register your url with as many search engines and directories as possible. You should then be extra diligent and register all of your sites with these resources no less than once monthly. This is something for you to be doing constantly.
For your convenience, following is a list of some of the best search engine registration sites as of the time of this printing of this article. Free services come and go, so I'll publish and post periodic updates to this file. Additionally, be prepared for "free" services that register you with a limited list of sites (10 to 20 sites), and ofter you a "paid version that promises to submit your url to a much broader list of sites. My feeling about the matter is take what these sites offer for free, and then go on to the next service. Yes there will be some overlap from service to service, but ultimately it won't adversely affect your site ranking and rating one iota.
Here's the list:
FREE WEB SUBMISSION
http://freewebsubmission.com/
Note: You must manually submit to each of the 50 top-rated search engines, but excellent list. Also features an "automatic submission" program, but it only submits to 20 search engines.
SUBMIT EXPRESS
http://www.submitexpress.com/free-submission.html
Note: Quick, easy submission to 50 middle-ranked to better-ranked search engines.
ADD ME
http://www.addme.com/
Note: One-step submission to 20 search engines of varying rank. Be prepared with meta tags and keywords for your submission.
ADD PRO
http://www.addpro.com/submit30.htm
Note: Quick, easy one-step submission to 18 search engines of varying rank.
I NEED HITS
http://www.ineedhits.com/free-tools/submit-free.aspx
Note: Quick, easy, one-step submission to 20 search engines of middle-ranked to highly-ranked search engines, with a different assortment of engines (including DMOZ) than the redundant packages offered by the other sites.
While there are a number of other services, these cover the field fairly well, and will provide you with some exposure. And more exposure is generally better (but remember to apply sunscreen).
Douglas E. Castle
for The Blogging Tips, Tricks And Tools Blog, and... for
CFI - CrowdFunding Incubator LLC.
