Unfortunately, life isn't quite so simple. With over one billion pages currently published on the internet, the odds of someone bumping into yours is rather remote, unless it is well promoted. Web page promotion entails registering your URL with one or more search engines. There are literally hundreds of search engines in existence today. Although it is free to add your URL to most search engines, the registration effort does take time.
Search engines can be national, international, of subject specific.
There are, however, only a few very large search engines which are used by most internet users on a regular basis. You should certainly register your site with each of them. Depending on your objectives, you may also want to register with some of the national, regional or subject based search engines. Add URL to AltaVista Add URL to Yahoo Add URL to Excite Add URL to WebCrawler Add URL to Lycos Add URL to Google Add URL to DirectHit Add URL to Open Directory Add URL to HotBot Add URL to Looksmart Alternatively, you can use our free URL submission service to register your site with up to 18 search engines at once. Search engines differ from one another to some degree but in general, indexing occurs based on the number of times that specific words or combination of words are found in the title, section headings and body of the page.