5 : Submit your URL's - Have you ever seen someone run a marathon with out training?

If you have followed steps one through four you are now ready for what most people attempt as step one.

Submit you URL(s) to these search engines and directories. Try to avoid sites that claim to submit your site to thousands and thousands of search engines. After all this hard work you do not want to have your site banned for spamming the search engine server.

These are just a few important Search Engines and Directories to submit to. You will find that once you get listed in the big eight that other search engines list you too. There are many more of these, but be careful of sites that promise the world and have flashing banners and too much eye candy.

Crawlers:  
Inktomi http://www.inktomi.com/products/web_search/submit.html
Google http://www.google.com/addurl.html
Alta Vista http://addurl.altavista.com/
Teoma http://ask.ineedhits.com/ [Costs $30]
   
Directories:  
Yahoo http://add.yahoo.com/fast/add?+Business [Cost $299]
DEMOZ http://www.dmoz.org/add.html
LookSmart http://www.zeal.com/users/become_a_zealot.jhtml