I bet you've seen the google submit URL form? Well, don't waste your time with it. I can't begin to tell you how much people believe that doing this will benefit them. It's a complete waste of time, so don't do it.
If you're not familiar about how a search engine works, I'll briefly explain it for you. A search engine works by a spider (software that searchers through a website) searching through a website. Now, when this spider finds links on a website, it will follow it to the next website or webpage. This is where your website comes in, you'll need a link on an already established website for the spider to follow back to your site.
So the next question you're probably going to ask is, how do I get my links out there. Well, the best and cheapest way would be by submitting your article to an article directory. Oh, and by cheapest I mean completely free. So what you need to do is, write an article that is based around your website. For instance if your site is about Cat Care Products. Then you'd write an article or review that is based around Cat Care Products. When you go to submit your article to an article directory, there will be an Author Resource Box, this is where you insert a link back to your site.
please note: you will have to include the http:// tags, otherwise the search engine spider will not follow your link and you would of just wasted your time.
The more links that you have pointing towards your website, the faster you'll be index. So write more articles that are based around the theme of your site. Also, for an added bonus, you'll have people read your article and click on your link. Which means you'll receive natural traffic to your site complete free.
If you're not sure with article directory to submit to, I recommend:
ezine articles
article dashboard
goarticle
alternatively you could always google article directories for a list of article directories.
