Submit your main page (index or home page) to as many Search Engines as you can. Every time you browse the Web and come upon a new Search Engine, use it. The best results are if you do it yourself, by hand. It will take time, but it is the only sure way. Even many Web marketing firms will, as part of their service, offer you a submission by hand. Submit only one URL a day (no more than five). Force-feeding your URL's will only get them not listed or even banned. Do not use services of unknown submission Web sites that will offer you automatic submissions to "hundreds" of Search Engines. Their "service" will most likely get your pages banned and it is most often a scam.

Submission to Direcories Tips
Submit your main page (index or home page) to as many Web Directories as you can. Every time you browse the Web and come upon a new Directory, use it. The best results are if you do it yourself. It will take time, but it is the only sure way. Even many Web marketing firms will, as part of their service, offer you a submission by hand.

Many Web Directories will keep your page listed only for some time. From time to time, every six months, resubmit your page. At that time change the Title and Description of your page. Try a new catchier phrases and you may get much better results. You will be surprised at how much difference a new phrase can make in attracting visitors to your site.

When submitting to directories you don't necessarily have to submit your main page. If you have a page with more catchier title like "Free Tips" or "Win a free gift", use it.

Submitting your url to directories is alwasy a good idea, but i read somewhere that getting links pointing to your internal pages helps to boost your PR and Rankings on Search Engines.
Search Engine Optimization & Promotion Consultant
The best way is to submit to Good ranking directories along with submitting interal links to some other directories

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raj

Why not? Don't they work?

I don't think Search engine submission helps. Search engine should be able to find you. The main thing is to build quality backlinks. Backlinks helps you to het search engine attention and high position in search results.

What will really help you is a XML sitemap. There are several plugins you can use for most softwares like phpbb, Wordpress etc. You can even create your own site map at http://xml-sitemap.com if you only have static pages.

Sitemaps will help Google and Yahoo to find all of your pages much faster.

/Andreas