On the other hand, you can use one of several free software submission services available on the Internet, or use a product such as Search Engine Commando. Most web site owners find the process of submitting to search engines to be far more complex and frustrating than they had thought. The criteria with which sites are analyzed and listed are based on very specific algorithms that take into account keywords, text, and other elements of the site. Designing a well-formulated index page will go a long way towards a top search engine ranking. Free is highly over-rated.
Nobody listens, of course.
They know that the internet is the fabled El Dorado where the rivers run gold and cash is common as dust-bunnies. Leap before you look, quoth the lemming. It's okay to work in your underwear in your partially remodeled basement as long as everyone thinks you're in a suit in a high-rise on Success Avenue. It's NOT okay to broadcast your slovenly habits to the world at large via ill-formatted email, poor spelling, sloppy grammar and inept punctuation. Most of you have been disabused of the myth that all you have to do is put up a Web site and the world with beat a path to your door.