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It goes without saying that having your site spidered and indexed by the Major Search Engines ... Like Google, Yahoo, and MSN Search ... is essential to gaining free exposure for your web site.

I'm not going to go into the SE optimization it takes to rank highly for specific keywords in this post ... I'm simply going to offer a few tips to make sure your site gets indexed. ;)

Google - http://www.google.com/

Google free submission URL - http://www.google.com/addurl.html

Important Google Submission Facts - http://www.google.com/webmasters/

Yahoo Search - http://search.yahoo.com/

Yahoo Search free submission URL - http://submit.search.yahoo.com/free/request

Important Yahoo Search submission facts - http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/ysearch/indexing/index.html

MSN Search (Beta) - http://search.msn.com/

MSN Search free submission URL - http://search.msn.com/docs/submit.aspx?FORM=WSDD2

Important MSN Search submission facts - http://search.msn.com/docs/siteowner.aspx?FORM=WMSU

Many SEO Experts argue that it's best you let the search engine spiders find your site ... as opposed to submitting, which is why it's important that you have a robot.txt file for the spiders to follow.

Here's a great robot.txt tutorial - http://www.searchengineworld.com/robots/robots_tutorial.htm

Looking for a great course on Search Engine Optimization?

I recommend Brad Fallon and Andy Jenkin's Stomping The Search Engines.

Much success,

Mike