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If you have a website and need more exposure but don’t have a lot of expendable cash, you can still submit your site to search engines without paying money.
The best way to submit your site to a search engine without having to pay a Search Engine Optimization Company (SEO) is to do it yourself manually. This takes time and patience but this leaves you in control and the knowledge that your site was successfully submitted.
Simply go to each search engine you want to submit to and perform the submission process. You can find links to all of the popular search engines by simply doing your own search. Some will have an e-mail verification process so this will take time but if you do a few each day you’ll have your site submitted in no time at all. The best thing is that you do not have to pay to do this. While Search Engine Optimization companies do the work for you, it can take weeks to see results and it costs money to utilize their services. To do this yourself can take just as much time but at no charge.
Manual submissions also allow you to get insight on the tricks and tips of Search Engine Optimization. You’ll learn about keywords, meta tags, HTML errors, body tags, title descriptions and browser compatibility. All of this information will help you mold your site into a more search engine friendly website.
Be sure to read the privacy policy of each search engine and look out for any special rules or requirements. Some of the major search engines are Google, Bing, Alta Vista, Yahoo, and MSN but there are thousands available. You can even find free sites that submit your site to a few sites at once in order to save you time.
