Here is why. First, all search engine and directory submissions have lead times . What this means is that your website or web page is submitted to the search engine, the site has been recorded by the search engine spider, but it will take some time before your web page is added to the search engine catalog. For a directory, your site must be reviewed first, accepted into the directory, and then added to the catalog. The time between submission and addition to the catalog is called the lead time .
Lead times vary from a few days to a few months.
In fact, most web pages are not added to a search engine catalog for at least 2 weeks following submission, barring any technical difficulties. Now, we've noticed that the spam mail usually comes after a Yahoo submission, but we're sure other promotion companies have found similar trends. If you have a new website and if your site was recently submitted into the search engines and Yahoo, when you get an email stating that your site is nowhere to be found in the search engines, delete that email. Your site has not had enough time to be added to the catalogs, and these scam artists are trying to take advantage of peoples' ignorance about lead times. If you hired a good search engine optimization specialist, your site will show up eventually, just not immediately.