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.

To prove my point, I researched client’s chosen phrases using Wordtracker keyword software and then did comparison research using more logical phrases above. The results were crystal clear: logical, simplified phrases were many times more popular than "jargonized" ones. Once I demonstrated this to client, they were more than happy for us to conduct more thorough keyword research and start their search engine optimization campaign with a clean slate.

When selecting keywords and phrases for your site, remember to select search terms that describe your products and services in most logical, simple and specific way. By doing so you’ll not only increase search engine traffic to your site, but you’ll ensure your visitors are highly qualified to buy your products and services when they arrive.