Search engine submission is the process of notifying search engines of the existance of website content so that they include the site in their index and search results. They are one of the most important ways to get traffic to your website. Search engines receive more hits than you or I could ever imagine.

Search engine submission is only necessary if the a website has not been found by the major search engines. Most major search sites frequently re-visit websites that have already been indexed, to make sure their search results reflect current content.

Most of the major search engines follow links from one website to another to find new content and to evaluate their importance, based on how many other sites link to them. If your website has links from other sites that have already been indexed, chances are good that it will eventually be listed. Typically this is method is much faster than free submission, which can take months. Some of the major search engines like Google, Yahoo and MSN offer paid submission services that can reduce the time it usually takes to include your website.