Free Submission As with all other major search engines, building links to your site is best way to go if you want to get listed for free.

Paid Submission Inktomi's search engine has an extensive network of Web search partners, including MSN, About, HotBot, Overture. It refreshes your site every 48 hours, to keep your content up to date in index. Submit your homepage Your site will be listed in 2 days and will be regularly revisited up to one year. Price $39.00/year. Each URL thereafter costs $25.00/year. Guarantee: Your pages may be dropped if you don't renew your subscription.

6. Teoma - provides results for popular web site Ask Jeeves (http://ask.ineedhits.com) Ask Jeeves owns Teoma search engine. Teoma partners include: Ask.com, Teoma.com, Metacrawler, Excite, iLor, MySearch.com, MyWay.com, Ixquick, Mamma.com, Hotbot.com, Search123.com.

Free Submission Like other major search engines, get links from other web sites to point to yours and search engines will eventually find you though their linking structure.

Paid Submission Ask Jeeves Site Submit (http://ask.ineedhits.com) Submit your homepage Your site will be listed within one week. 1st URL $30.00 2 - 1000 URLs $18.00 each Guarantee: Your pages may be dropped if you don't renew your subscription.

Tips 1. Just submitting your web site to major search engines is not sufficient to get a good ranking. Make sure your web site is correctly optimized before you do your submissions. Read "How to Use Keywords to Optimize Your Site for Search Engines (http://www.isitebuild.com/keywords)

2. Getting massive amounts of traffic doesn't guarantee sales. Your web site copy must pull your visitors through page for them to take action. Get others to read your copy and ask for their opinions.

3. To achieve higher rankings (and therefore more traffic) in search engines, you need to continually refine your web site. Monitor your web site rankings and if necessary, adjust keywords in your meta tags and web site copy.

4. Search engines should be only one of your marketing strategies. One week you could be at top of a search engine, next week your site may disappear. Therefore don't just rely on traffic from search engines, but use other methods to drive traffic to your site.

Now go and submit your site to these major search engines. When you succeed in getting a top listing, as a result of taking action on this article, drop me a thank you note - I'll be cheering for you!

Part 2 of this article will explain how to get listed in Major Directories.