These articles, tutorials and how-to guides will teach you how to submit your Web site and Web pages to search engines and directories.

List Your Web Site in Less Than an Hour
From About Web Search: There's no magic to getting your site listed and well-represented at major search sites, it just takes some time and effort. And unless your livelihood depends on the results, you can get the job done with surprisingly little time and effort. Follow this guided tour and you'll be done in next to no time.

SelfPromotion.com Best of the Net
This personable and entertaining site contains a lot of solid material for creating search-friendly Web sites and submitting them to engines and directories: tutorials, articles, submission and analysis tools. Most of the site is free, with some of the tools offered on a pay-what-you-think-its-worth basis.

Getting Listed: Doing It Right
From ClickZ, Jan.10 2001: Search engine professional Paul Bruemmer offers good advice for submitting your site to search engines and directories. He focuses on doing the process manually for best results, and following up to be sure the job is done well.

Getting Your Framed Site Listed With Search Engines
From RankWrite Roundtable, May 16 2001: Jill Whalen gives a clear introduction to framed page design with search engine optimization in mind: how to make sure the engines can see your content, and how to avoid orphaned pages in search engine results.

Pay-Per-Click Search Engine Optimization
From Spider Food: Should you use PPC? A basic overview of pay-per-click search engines: how they work; how, why, and whether to use them as part of a traffic-building and search-positioning strategy.

Search Engine Submission and Resubmission Guidelines
From Search Engine Guide, Jul.6 2001: Optimization expert Robin Nobles lays out the current law on when and how often to submit your pages to major search engines. With the help of Position Pro's Jim Stob, she gives general guidelines, plus specifics for AltaVista, Google, Excite, HotBot/Inktomi, Lycos/FAST and Northern Light.

SEO Grab Bag
From ClickZ, May 16 2001: This commentary offers suggestions about the most important sites to concentrate your optimization efforts on, the top engines and directories for 2001, submission software, and positioning service pricing models.

Submitting to Directories
Jill Whalen of RankWrite Roundtable gives basic guidelines and tips for submitting effectively to human-edited directories such as Yahoo!, Open Directory Project, and LookSmart: how to pick the right category, how to write titles and descriptions that meet editorial guidelines.

The Four Search Engines to be Listed in and Why
Make sure you are listed well in the Yahoo! and LookSmart directories, plus the AltaVista and Excite search engines. These four services generate the most traffic, and being listed here will gain you the greatest exposure.

The1000.com
This directory of thousands of search engines and directories you can submit to is organized into categories: general, geographically-specific, specialized content. It also has links to other submission directories and resources. Part of JimWorld.

Top 5 Search Engine Marketing Mistakes
From SearchNewz, Jul.18 2001: Advice - don't buy into these myths. (1) SE optimization no longer works (2) bulk submitting works (3) meta tags will solve all your problems (4) doorway pages will get my site banned (5) you should submit your new site right away.

Top 5 Search Engine Marketing Tips
From SearchNewz, Jul.25 2001: A recap of some basic principles - (1) target the right keywords (2) submit properly to the major directories (3) optimize your page content (4) increase your link popularity (5) track your progress.

What Ever Happened to Free Search Listings?
From Search Engine Guide, June 6 2002: A handy summary of the dwindling roster of major search sites that offer a free listing option, with tips and links to simplify the process.