Once you have your website completed it is important submit it to the primary search engines and directories. While there are software options and websites that will provide for this, it is considered best to manually submit your website to ensure that you have followed the submission guidelines and that your submission listing gets accepted.
When submitting, read the submission guidelines first. Some will request the full URL while others will ask for just the suffix. Many of the directories will require that you also provide the business name and the business description; others will require that you select from their directory categories.
Once your site has been submitted you do not need to resubmit it in most cases — some search engines / directories will lower a site’s ranking if over submitted. In this regard it is best to do a name search for your business on a search engine or directory before you submit. If your ranking is low you will want to ensure that you do have the proper Meta-tags in place.
