When you complete your website you will need to submit it to all the search engines to get the website listed in the search engine results.

You only need to submit your website ONCE, if you submit it more than once there is a chance your site may marked as a spamming website and you website may even be banned from the search engines.

You can submit your website to all of the major search engines and many other directories. It should not cost anything to do this as you can submit your website yourself. You can pay somebody else to submit your website to search engines and directories if you want to.

The Main Search Engines

Submit your website to Google - This is said to be the mother of all the search engines and is probably the most popular one out there, everybody knows Google and you should submit your website to Google first of all. Submit your website to Google here.

Submit your website to Yahoo - This is the main rival to Google so this is your stop to submit your website. You may have to register with Yahoo. Submit your website to Yahoo here.

Submit your website to MSN - Now uses Bing, This is third in the search engine popularity league and is still worth submitting your website. The results provided by MSN may actually be provided by the Yahoo, so submitting your to Yahoo may be enough to get your listed in MSN. If you want take no chance then submit your website to MSN here.

Ask and Teoma - The Teoma index powers both the popular Ask.com website and its sister site Teoma.com. You can only get into this index through being found by the Teoma Crawler, you submit your website but you have to pay it. All is not lost, Ask will eventually find your website naturally but may take a little time.

The next step is to start a campaign to submit your website to web directories. This is build up web links to your website which will ultimately help with your search engine rankings.