This has changed however.. with more and more sites on net you have to do something that will attract people. I have found some things that have worked.

Look at all largest sites on Internet. Yahoo, Altavista, Lycos, and Jayde you will see something very similar with them. There is hardly any advanced graphics or Javascripts on these sites. It is very straight forward with simple text based menu with simple compressed graphics.

I will use Yahoo as a example. It is Largest site on Internet in terms of traffic. The site layout is VERY straightforward with no moving graphics or Javascript. This is something that people should note when designing a site. GRAPHICS TAKE TIME TO DOWNLOAD!

This tutorial will not promise you a top search engine position. It will also not reveal how to get your site into thousands of search engines.

Instead, you will discover exact locations where you can submit your website for free and few "paid submissions" that are actually worth price.

Yes, there ARE still places where you can submit your website for free. There are actually seven extremely busy search engines that have not (not yet anyway) migrated to requiring payment for listings.

Here's a listing of these engines along with URLs where you can add your site(s) for free:

1. Lycos Add URL: http://home.lycos.com/addasite.html

2. Google Add URL: http://www.google.com/addurl.html

3. HotBot Add URL: http://hotbot.lycos.com/addurl.asp

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

5. DMOZ - The Open Directory Project Add URL: http://dmoz.org/add.html

6. Direct Hit - An Ask Jeeves Service Add URL: http://www.directhit.com/util/addurl.html

7. Fast - (Formerly "All Web") http://www.alltheweb.com/add_url.php3

Those seven search engines above have been responsible for sending literally thousands of visitors to my website over past year. And they will send thousands more. And perhaps best part is that I didn't have to pay them a dime.