There are many types of search engines and directories where you can submit your website. Before doing any submission, you'll want to make sure you have your website complete and functional online. For best results, you also want to be certain your site has meta tags setup and is optimized properly for the search engines.

Free Submission
Some search engines and directories are still allowing free submissions. Most are displaying the "sponsored listings" in their top postions, but you may still be able to achieve a decent ranking through the free submission process. We've listed below the free submissions you should consider for your site, in order of importance (in our opinion).

DMOZ - The Open Directory Project
Feeds search results to AOL and many other engines!
http://www.dmoz.com

Google
http://www.google.com

Alexa
http://pages.alexa.com/help/webmasters/

Yahoo Free Submit
(also All the Web & Alta Vista)
http://submit.search.yahoo.com/free/request

Lycos - Must create an InSite Account
http://www.lycos.com

MSN Free Submit
http://free.submit-it.com

ExactSeek
http://www.exactseek.com

True Search
http://www.truesearch.com

Aeiwi
http://www.aeiwi.com

Scrub the Web
http://www.srubtheweb.com

Splat Search
http://www.splatsearch.com

InfoTiger
http://www.infotiger.com

National Directory
http://www.nationaldirectory.com

Pay-per-Click and Pay for Inclusion
Most search engines are now displaying "Sponsored Listings" in their top results, making it nearly impossible for your site to reach a #1 ranking without participating in a Pay-per-Click or Pay for Inclusion program.

The search engines listed below make up the "big boys" of the per-per-click and pay for inclusion world. We have listed them in order of importance (in our opinion) for your site rankings.

Ah-Ha.com
http://www.ah-ha.com

Inktomi - Pay for Inclusion
Owned by Yahoo
http://www.inktomi.com

Google - Google Ad Words : Pay-per-Click
http://www.google.com

Overture - Pay-per-Click
Owned by Yahoo
http://www.overture.com

LookSmart - Pay for Inclusion & Pay-per-Click
Feeds results to MSN, among others ...
http://www.looksmart.com

Teoma
Powers Ask Jeeves
http://www.teoma.com

Mamma.com
http://www.mamma.com

Kanoodle - Pay-per-Click
http://www.kanoodle.com

DogPile - Pay for Inclusion
http://www.dogpile.com

Ah-Ha.com - Pay for Inclusion & Pay-per-Click
http://www.ah-ha.com

ePilot - Pay-per-Click
http://www.epilot.com

WhatUSeek - Pay for Inclusion
http://www.whatuseek.com

Yahoo! - Pay-per-Click & Pay for Inclusion
Yahoo recently acquired Overture.com and feeds their Web search results from the Overture.com pay-per-click engine. Directory results are still fed from the Yahoo directory, however.
http://www.yahoo.com

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