The search engines listed here provide 99% of all searches done on the Internet. Make sure you add your stite to DMOZ many search sites including Google uses DMOZ as a source

Google
By far the most important search engine. Google powers Yahoo!, AOL, Netscape, and several others. Add your URL here:
http://www.google.com/addurl.html
It's highly recommended that you read this:
http://www.google.com/webmasters/seo.html

Dmoz
Directions on how to add your site to the Open Directory are here:
http://dmoz.org/add.html
You will need to find the most appropriate category in the directory, and click on the "Add URL" button in the upper right hand corner.
If you try to stuff the description with keywords an editor may leave your site in unreview, or delete it. Try to describe your site in a balanced manner.

Yahoo!
Non-commercial sites may be submitted for consideration for free. Commercial sites require an annual payment of $299 to be considered for inclusion.
http://docs.yahoo.com/info/suggest/

Inktomi
Inktomi provides SERPs to many high profile portals. Add your URL here:
http://ink.ineedhits.com/

Overture
The Overture SE is a pay per click search engine. Minimum click cost is 5 cents. Overture has a very wide distribution including MSN Search, Yahoo!, Lycos, AltaVista, and InfoSpace.
http://www.overture.com/d/USm/about/advertisers/

AltaVista
In December, 30.1 million unique users performed 505m queries on AltaVista.
Submit for free here:
http://addurl.altavista.com/addurl/new

LookSmart
LookSmart uses a pay per click format, charging 15 cents per click. Submit here:
http://listings.looksmart.com/submit/
LookSmart also uses, and owns, Zeal web directory listings. Only non-commercial sites can submit to Zeal. Go to:
http://zeal.com/

Fast/ AllTheWeb
The FAST search engine provides SERPs in several high traffic portals, including Lycos. Submit your URL for free here:
www.alltheweb.com/add_url.php

WebCrawler
https://secure.ah-ha.com/guaranteed_inclusion/teaser.aspx

JoeAnt
JoeAnt allows you to add your own site if you first become an editor. The application process is very easy and this directory is supported by a community of editors that will welcome you in warmly.
http://www.joeant.com/suggest.html

GoGuides No longer free $69.95
Also free to submit:
http://www.goguides.org/info/addurl.htm

Don't Forget Lilengine

Also don't forget to submit your Data Feeds to Froogle if you sell on auction sites or have your own ecommrce site.

Hi Quilts, How does one go about finding those to submit?? Sorry, probably sounds like a dumb question, but I'm fairly new to this.

Here is a link to help you with Froogle
http://www.google.com/support/froogle

You basicly have to create your own datafeed in a csv file.

I thought you had to submit a datafeed in a .txt format to get on Froogle? I created one in excell and then tried to save it at a text file, but it took away all the tabs and totally messed up my "one item per line" requirement.

Any ideas why my text file is doing this?

In Excel you will need to save it has "Text (Tab delimited) (*.txt)"

GoGuides says they charge a fee of $69.95. Is that correct? Or did I miss something?

They must of change there policy I will update the list

Just a note....have any of you heard of SearchOrama? Just thought you'ld like to know it's up for sale.....

I can appreciate the time it took to find and post all of the submit links for all of those search engines but it must be remembered that some search engines will rank you higher if they find you organically.

As for onpage optimization, make correct use of heading tags (H1 through H6), title tags, emphasis tags, anchor text etc. Also remember that onpage SEO is a small part of the SEO equasion, the most important is off-page SEO. How many and which sites link to your page. I may go into this more deeply in it's own topic but it depends on my time constraints.

Just curious. How do we submit our website or feeds to MSN? Thanks!

One thing I do for each site I launch whether it is mine or one I have created for someone else.

I use a free tool called GSiteCrawler. It can be found here and will help create a sitemap for Google and also an URL List for Yahoo.
http://gsitecrawler.com/

Then I submit the Google Sitemap by following the directions there at:
http://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/

You can submit your Yahoo URL List here under Submit Site Feed:
https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/submit

Both work quite well at getting pages on your site indexed, Yahoo is quicker at getting this done. It can take up to 9 months for ost of your pages to get indexed. You will see both site crawling immediately and on a regular basis without seeing pages showing up in their indexes... this is normal.

_{Thanks everyone for all the useful site subission info.
It has been a great help!!}

Wow, thanks for the info.