Search engine submission, love it or hate it, is an integral part of any on-line business. Organic search traffic should account for a fairly large volume of your business. If it doesn't you are missing an extremely critical part of your on-line marketing plan.
The main way to achieve this goal is to make sure your sites are properly submitted to the search engines. If you search for 'free search engine tools' you should find plenty of web sites with tools that will help you optimize your page for the engines.
Make sure you don't skip this step as on site optimization is an important process to learn. As you learn it and develop your pages in the future you will build them with the optimization tips in mind. This means less time redoing pages later in your company's history. The old adage "Anything word doing right, is worth doing right the first time" makes perfect sense here.
Once you have your pages ready to be submitted to the search engines you need to do the actual submission. There are so many ways to handle this it isn't even funny. Companies try to overwhelm you nowadays with a plethora of options but an increasing portion of them involve payment of some sort. You may find some paid services that offer free sample submissions - to say the top 5 search engines.
Just like anything else on-line you need to do your research. You'll quickly realize that there are just a small hand full of search engines that will truly send you any steady and worthwhile traffic. You can spend less than 15 minutes submitting your new sites to them manually. To give you a rough idea
* Google
* Yahoo
* MSN
* Ask
By submitting to these four search engines you will actually be submitting to thousands of search engines. There are a ton of sites that say 'Search Driven By Google' or whichever search engine they may use. These sites are mostly smaller and this is how the sites that claim "Submit your site to 300,000 + search engines" are able to sell their product without it being considered false advertising. Keep this in mind as well when considering using paid services.
