Search Engine Priming, How to Get Found:
It is absolutely essential for every web site to have a way to be found amongst the literally millions of web sites out their today. No longer can you just hope that your site is unique enough or has a catchy enough name to make it rise above the rest in "findability." The primary way is by being found easily (preferentially) by search engines.
The following sites are either dedicated to getting you listed "preferentially" in a variety of search engines for a variety of costs (including free), or they specialize in strategies on how to break into the top ten of the search results.

Links to the Top 30 Search Engines you should be on
Check out this list for the most important, most used search engines on the web.

"There's a pervasive myth among Web site managers that submitting your Web site to hundreds of search engines will result in thousands of new visitors. That's just not true. An award winning new product by FirstPlace Software called WebPosition Gold™ offers proof that submitting alone is not enough. "

Software

"Swiss Army App for Webmasters (Windows 95/98/NT and Mac-Win Emulators).  The name says it all.  Finally, here is an application that automates all of the habits of highly successful websites.  Watch your bottom line and your traffic soar.  Imagine what you will do with all of the free time and extra profit this application will create for you...  Just take a look at this awesome feature list and compare it to the "competition."   As you see, the choice is clear.  Swiss Army App for Webmasters is the ultimate must have tool for anyone serious about their website."

Software

"SelfPromotion.com is the net's first and only URL Registration ShareService. Using this site, you can automatically register your website with all the important search engines and indexes, get tips on proper website promotion techniques, improve your HTML, and much more. You will be able to do a better job of promoting your website, and do it faster and more easily as well."

Shareware site

"This site includes articles, opinions and links to other points of interest on the web. It will contribute to your knowledge of marketing from a real-world perspective.
It doesn't matter if you are selling a product or service, promoting an MLM, or promoting a consulting business; it's easy to make enormous profits online if you know how to do it."

Free+ advice

"In the three years I worked on HotBot, I read thousands of email messages and handled dozens of phone calls from people trying to get better placement for their sites in HotBot's search results. There is actually an entire consulting industry based on tweaking Web pages to get them to the top of search-engine results in the hope of capturing more traffic. The specialists call it search-engine optimization, but search-engine workers just label it spam because it usually involves some sort o trickery. "

Free, article

"A lot of folks trying to get into business on the Web these days have the best of intentions. They hire a competent developer to create their site, they've used jus enough graphics to jazz up the site, but not so much that the site loads too slow. They've presented their information in an informative, entertaining manner, and the viewer can navigate from one subject to the next with ease. All in all, a perfect Web site. And yet, they make no sales, no return on their investment. What could have gone wrong? They took the advice of the best books in creating the site, and everyone who sees it agrees that it's top quality and easy to use. ."

Free, article

"Search Engine Submission Tips: This area covers search engine registration and submission tips, such as using meta tags, improving placement and how to submit URLs. Formerly called "A Webmaster's Guide To Search Engines"

Web Searching Tips: Learn how to search better and how the major search engines work from a searcher's perspective. Also see how people search and other fun stuff."

Free site

"Search engines spider and list sites using different techniques. Some search engines may list sites more frequently. The result of this means that no search engine posts exactly the same information at any given time. Running a search on Excite for "sports" will give the user a list of sites to go to while running the same search on Lycos may result in a completely different list of sites. Meta tags are a useful and powerful tool but may not be the "secret to success". Search engines such as HotBot, Infoseek and Alta Vista do give a slight boost to pages with keywords in their meta tags but keep in mind that search engines such as Excite do not use META tags and other indexes such as Yahoo are viewed "hands on by an individual which may see thousands of pages daily thus placing a higher rating to those sites with more relevant content and design."

Free site

"The purpose of this document is to provide you with background information on search engine technology and some Tips on how to get your Web site to appear on the result pages of search engines and directories. We are by no means promising any miracles. However, this information will help you better understand search engines and directories and will hopefully serve to put you in a better position than you currently are in now."

Free site

" Top-10 Promotions is the leading provider for high quality web site promotion services and software. Since our conception in November 1997, we've set new standards in developing powerful web site promotion software and providing thousands of free visibility reports, daily, for web-based businesses around the globe. If you are concerned about how your web site ranks, request a free report now. "

Pay site

"With over 300 million web pages on the Internet, how is anyone going to find yours? Listing your pages on the worlds Search Engines and Directories can dramatically increase your web site traffic, but this will take weeks of your time to do manually. SubmitWolf has a database of over 2500 sites where you can promote your URL, and can automatically submit to over 1500 international Search Engines and Directories in just a few minutes. "

PC software

"www.SitePromoter software allows you to promote your web site to hundreds ofsearch engines, directories, and indices. www.SitePromoter knows the rules andguidelines for each search engine, ensuring that when you submit your web site, you'll get excellent positioning and boost your site toward the top of the list! "

Mac and PC software