One great way to share links is to contact similar businesses. If you run a pet grooming site, how about linking with a kennel or dog food distributor or cat magazine, etc. These sites all have something in common and basically they "feed off" each other and shared links can only help each site.

Another super way to be linked is to actually link yourself. Yes, you can link your own site to other sites Free! through FFA sites or free classifieds. If you place your ad on free for all link sites or place free classifieds at sites, you will be linked in eyes of search engines. The more classifieds or FFA links you submit, more links to your page. E.G.: more status on Search Engines.

Try it. Not only will you be placing more emphasis on your search engine rankings, you will actually be advertising at same time. You just may be next Amazon or Ebay!

Netscape http://home.netscape.com/escapes/search/addsite.html

Northern Light http://www.northernlight.com/docs/regurl_help.html

Open Directory Project (DMOZ) http://dmoz.org/add.html

Scrub The Web http://www.scrubtheweb.com/addurl.html

Yahoo! http://docs.yahoo.com/info/suggest/

Note: many of above sites have regional versions that may well be more appropriate for your site.

=> THEN MONITOR RESULTS!

Only resubmit your website to search engines if it has not been added to specific search engine or directory. So how do you know if your site has been added? Well, you can visit each site above and search for your URL (e.g. do a search for www.yourwebsitename.com).

Or you could use following position checking tools, and see how your site ranks for keyword of 'www.yourwebsitename.com'

- http://www.jimtools.com/position2.html

- http://www.sethi.org ools/eyespy/

- http://www.did-it.com/detective.htm

Any results not in top 50 suggest your site has not yet been added to search engine's database yet.

=> EVEN DO IT YOURSELF!

For programmers out there, you might like to create your own site submission and position checking tools. The best place to find such resources is http://www.cgi-resources.com

=> READ MORE...

You can find out a great deal more about search engine submission from following excellent resources. Just do a search for "search engine submission" and off you go! (You can also find out more about paid search engine submissions here too.)

http://www.promotionbase.com http://www.iboost.com http://www.dmoz.org

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Search engines are a great way of getting traffic to your site. More and more search engines are now charging to be listed, though, so it makes it more important than ever that you create great content and choose keywords, meta tags etc. carefully.