Submitting to Search Engines

I've just completed on-page optimization for a section of my site. How do I get Yahoo!, MSN, or Google to recognize the page for my target keyword? Do I need to submit the page individually to each search engine? If so, any recommendations on the best way to do that?

Thanks,

Most of the time submitting the site to individual search engines is second only to useless. These lists are read form time to time, but they are really not taken that seriously.

To get the SE bot's to yoru site you need to get links from other sites to yours. There's a huge array of ways to do this, so I won't go into it here, but that is essentially the answer.

The more links in you have, the more spiders will find your site.

It's true that it doesn't achieve much submitting your sites to the major search engines but in all fairness it doesn't hurt to do it either. Download the free copy of WebCEO this will help you submit your site to all major search engines and a lot of others too. It has a heap of other handy SEO tools too. Also head on over to SEO Chat you'll get a lot of good info there.

thank you very much!

hi

i dont think webceo is fruitful. nothing is fruitful than a human brain. yes if you want a deep knowledge then you should go to Seo Chat.

if you have completed your on the page optimization of your site then you should then you should submit your site in

http://www.google.com/addurl.html (for Google, Yahoo, and AOL)
http://www.altavista.com/addurl (for AltaVista)
http://www.alltheweb.com/add_url.php (for Lycos/Fast)
http://www.wisenut.com/submitsite.html (for WiseNut, LookSmart (assumed eventually) page taken down 24/6/2002)
http://submit.search.yahoo.com/free/request (Yahoo Search/Inktomi)
http://ask.ineedhits.com/ (AskJeeves, Teoma)

Directory Submission Pages:
http://dmoz.org/add.html (for DMOZ, Google, AOL, Others)
http://docs.yahoo.com/info/suggest/ (for Yahoo Directory)
http://listings.looksmart.com/?synd=none&chan=lshomeft (For MSN, LookSmart, Altavista)
http://www.zeal.com (Free way into LookSmart for non-commercial sites)
http://www.goguides.org
http://www.joeant.com/
http://vlib.org/ (mostly educational sites)
http://www.wannalearn.com/ (educational sites)
http://libraryspot.com (primarily reference sites)

you are so sweet! thanks!

I don't know if that's entirely true. Search engines have been known to rank sites they find themselves higher, because they have incoming links from other sites.

No you need not submit each page to the search engines and actually shouldn't. Doing so may hurt your rankings. Get some quality links to that page and it will get indexed fast.

you dont need to submit your site to a search engine, the search engine will find you all you need is a good back links. Link your site to a high pr site and your site will crawl automatically.