Many services available to submit your website to hundreds of search engines are a waste of time. This is due to the fact that unless your website has been optimized, at least with the most basic optimization tags (title, meta keyword, meta description), then submission to any search engine is going to rank extremely poorly.

Further, if your website cannot be crawled (viewed) properly by a search engine, then submission to a search engine is not going to help at all. In fact a search engine may take a look at the website, see that there is nothing there (or at least think that there is nothing there due to poor layout/coding), and take note never to come back again.

Search engine submission is one of the last steps to Search Engine Optimization (SEO). First, the website must be optimized so that a search engine can navigate it correctly, recognize what keyword phrases are most important, amongst many other aspects.

So when you see an advert for mass submission to search engines (as that below), tread wisely, because if your site has technical problems, submitting it to search engines will not help you one iota – if anything it may even harm your visibility! At the least it is a waste of money if your site has not been optimised first.

 Search Engine Submission
Submit your website to over 400
search engines from just $39.95/yr

In fact, if your website is already optimized (or at the least built optimally), it should in fact not need search engine submission at all (exect for directories such as Yahoo Directory), as once it is picked up in the larger search engines such as Yahoo or Google or MSN/LIVE, then other smaller less important search engines will also index your site.