Many folks believe that adding your website to major search engines is a time consuming process. It’s not! In fact, many entrepreneurs play off this assumption and offer services to submit your site to thousands of search engines for a low fee. First of all, there is no need to submit your site to thousands of search engines. The overwhelming majority of searches done online are on Google, Yahoo, and MSN. It’s that simple. Why pay to submit your site to thousands of other sites no one else is using? Secondly, there is no need to pay at all. It’s easy enough that a well trained monkey could do it. In fact, I just took five minutes to submit my site to all the major engines.

Here’s what you want to do. Go to your favorite search engine and type in “Google Suggest A Site”, then do the same for Yahoo and MSN. You’ll get a very simple form that will allow you to submit your URL. It’s also a good idea to go to DMOZ.org and submit your site there.

Furthermore, against popular belief, there is no benefit to submitting your site every month to the search engines, in fact, it may hurt you. They may interpret the act as spam. Once your site is listed, be happy, and spend your time working on improving your rankings. More articles on how to do that can be found on this site.