Before you even start submitting your pages to search engines and other places make sure your meta tags are good. You need to have a great title tag, descriptive keywords and a descriptions that tells people and search engines what they will find on your page. If you need help deciding which meta tags are appropriate for your page you can use a meta tag generator. If you just want to check the meta tags you already have you can do a meta tag analysis. Traffic Zap has many tools that can help you make sure your meta tags and keywords are right for your page.
Using auto-submitting software is alright if you want to get your name out there on the Net, but if you want to be listed in the top search engines you should do it yourself. While you're submitting your pages to search engines make sure you also manually submit your pages to The Open Directory Project and Yahoo!.
Keep a Log
Read each search engines rules before submitting to make sure you're doing it right because the rules for each are different. Write down some of the important points that you will need to remember. For some of them you may be allowed to submit your pages monthly while other's only allow you to submit your pages quarterly. If you submit a page more than once your page may be disqualified for submission altogether.
If you had to sign up before you could submit your pages then you will want to keep track of the user name and password you used to sign up with so you can get back in there again later. If you keep this information in a text document on your computer then you can copy and paste the URL's of each search engine submission page that you use to submit your pages. You can also keep track of which pages on your site you have already submitted and to which search engines you submitted them.
Page 1: How and Why's Of Promoting
Page 2: Submitting To Search Engines
Page 3: Newsletters and Link Exchange
Page 4: Other Things You Can Do
