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When you initially create your site, you are performing the SEO and formulating your site so that search engines can find you-but only if you are submitted to them to appear on their index. So if you haven't submitted your site, you did your SEO for half the purpose and you can't be seeing the benefits of your efforts. There are several search engines to choose from, but you generally want to stick with those that have the most popularity. The concept is simple, as your target audience jumps online, they are searching through a search engine to find the information or products they need. So which search engines are they searching?

    * Google
    * Yahoo
    * Bing
    * MSN

There are many other search engines, such as Live, Ask, and other small ones, but there are none as popular and commonly used as Google, Yahoo, Bing, and MSN. These are usually the default search engines for most internet browsers, so if your target audience rarely uses their computer, they are searching through one of these, most likely Google or Yahoo. Google has actually ranked #1 in search engines for quite a while and is getting clear competition from the new Bing that is showing to be just as effective at finding the right things as Google, possibly more effective.

So, now you know what the popular search engines are, you are able to get online and submit to the right ones. You definitely don't have to submit to just one search engine, as you want to cover your bases, but if you aren't sure how to submit at all, you could easily and quickly use the Search Engine Submission package to help you submit your site to the various search engines without having to get lost in a bunch of computer process that may make no sense to you at all.

You have your site and the appropriate SEO, so why skip the most important step, ignoring the search engine submittal that is quite critical to your site's visibility. Basically, if you aren't submitted to a search engine, your site is ignored, so while you may be getting hits, you aren't getting the hits you could be getting. If you have many hits each day, just think of your potential once your site has been submitted to the most popular search engines.