The Internet is a world wide market place with millions of people shopping online 24 hours, 7 days per week. For your website to be successful you need some of these millions of online shoppers to come visit your website. The first and one of the best things you can do to get people to come to your website is to get listed in the search engines. First make sure your website is complete and search engine optimized then you are ready to submit your web site to the search engines.
You can visit each search engine individually and submit your URL to each. There are hundreds of search engines you can submit your URL to. You should start by submitting your website to the major search engine which are Google, Yahoo, Ask, AllTheWeb, AOL Search, HotBot, AltaVista, Gigablast, Live Search, LookSmart, Lycos, Netscape Search, and Open Directory. You can also use a submission service such as Search Engine Blaster which will quickly and easily submit your URL to many search engines and other websites at once.