where do you submit your site?

where to do advertisement?

how do you get customers?

You almost never pay to submit.

Search Engines will eventually find your site through their spiders.
To Acellerate this process, make sure you get linked to by a site already indexed.

You need to submit your site to search engines such as Google.
Pay for submission can be useful.
If you really aren't sure read up on search engines etc., on sites like searchenginewatch.com

Get your site on dmoz.org and you should be picked up by a lot of the major search engines.

Get your site on dmoz.org and you should be picked up by a lot of the major search engines.

Hand submissions will always yield better results than a paid bulk service.

www.AddMe.com, i used htem, are they no good?

(free service, btw)

addme's only decent engine that they add to would be google and like Matt said, it's best to submit manually. A lot of engines will ignore ones that have been done through a buck service.

I know Yahoo is a paid directory now and is it worth it? Well, Alexa ranks it as the number one site, so it obviously gets the traffic, but they pick up their results from google anyway in addition to their own database, so I don't think the cost is worth it.

Originally posted by Coach
I know Yahoo is a paid directory now and is it worth it? Well, Alexa ranks it as the number one site, so it obviously gets the traffic, but they pick up their results from google anyway in addition to their own database, so I don't think the cost is worth it. Yahoo decreased a lot of their own value when they changed the way the present results, putting the Google results first. It used to be that you saw the Yahoo directory results first, and the Google results would start on the second page. Now the Google results are first and you have to click the "Directory" tab to see the paid Yahoo listings. Of course, that probably increased their usefulness as a search destination, but it made it less worthwhile to pay the $299/year.

One possible additional value, though, depending on your category, is that the listing will get spidered by Google and contribute to your PageRank, and so may indirectly help your rankings in Google.You almost never pay to submit. You need to submit your site to search engines such as Google. Hmm... a little difference of opinion? ;)

If you have links to your site from other Google-indexed sites, they'll find you and list you (even one site that gets regularly spidered by Google will do it). If you don't have any such links, they won't list you even if you do submit to them.

Generally these days it's not necessary to submit to any of the major search engines; they all spider and will eventually find a well-linked site. Still, because there are so few search engines today anyway, I'd take the ten minutes to submit because it might help speed things along... and if it doesn't it's no big loss. And, as others said, start out with a submission to dmoz. It can be frustrating and can take a long time, but it's a very valuable free listing.

Don't forget regional/specialist directories