After your website is designed, built, loaded to your web hosting company, tested, and ready for the world to see, the next step is to tell the search engines about it. Below, we've listed search engine tip links, search engine submission links, directory submission links, and if you're really into figuring out how search engines work, useful search engine forum and blog sites.

Tips for Website Submission

Microsoft - http://www.submit-it.com/subopt.htm

MSN - http://beta/search.msn.com/docs/siteowner.aspx?FORM=WMWM

Yahoo - http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/ysearch/ranking/ranking-02.html

Google - http://www.google.com/intl/en/webmasters/guidelines.html

Open Directory Advice - http://dmoz.org/add.html

Submit to Major Search Engines

Google – http://www.google.com/addurl/?continue=/addurl

MSN - http://beta.search.msn.com/docs/submit.aspx?

Keyword Research Tools

DigitalPoint Keyword Tracker - http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/keywords/

Google Keyword - https://adwords.google.com/select/main?cmd=KeywordSandbox

Google Suggest -http://www.google.com/webhp?complete=1&hl=en

Local Search Engines

Google Local - http://local.google.com/

MSN Local - - http://local.msn.com/

Ask Jeeves Local - http://local.ask.com

AOL Local - http://localsearch.aol.com/main.adp

Phone Listing Directories

City Search - http://www.citysearch.com

Switch Board - http://www.switchboard.com

Smart Pages - http://www.smartpages.com/

Super Pages - http://www.superpages.com/

Yellow Pages - http://www.yellowpages.com/Index.aspx

Other Directories

Open Directory Project - http://www.dmoz.org

GoGuides - http://www.goguides.org

SEO Blogs and Forums

Search Engine Watch - http://blog.searchenginewatch.com/blog

Search Guild - http://www.searchguild.com

Search Engine Watch Forum - http://forums.searchenginewatch.com

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