Search engines do not immediately crawl newly created sites. Therefore searching for a new site may not produce any result in the search engine result page (SERP) even if you type the full URL of the site. It takes some time for such to happen. Frequent hits on your site, and back-links (referrals) can also help your site to be crawled faster. Therefore, besides search engine optimisation of your site, you should submit your site to search engines for the search engine spiders to begin the process of crawling your site.
Submitting your site to major site engines like Google, Yahoo, Ask Jeeves, AltaVista, are free. However, it is instructive to note that frequent multiple submission of the same site to a search engine may be considered as spamming. Your site can be banned by one of more search engines should it be considered to be spamming the submission process. For users of blogger.com (blogspot.com) blog template, your chances of having a high page rank in Google are very high. This is because, the site blogger.com (blogspot.com) belongs to Google, and there is an option to submit site to Google search engine at the time of creation. Hence, the crawling process of blogs and pages on the sites are faster with Google search engine spiders.
I recently learned this the hard way when I searched for my new blog in Yahoo. I was surprised that while my site has a substantially high page rank in Google, and Ask Jeeves, it was not found listed in Yahoo search result page even though I used the URL in the search field. I tried to remedy that by submitting my site’s to yahoo search engine. Nevertheless, beyond submitting sites to search engines, quality content, and links to your site by several sites is a good indicator of the importance of your site. The more referrals you have from associate and affiliates sites the better your chances of being ranked higher in search engine result, and better the quality of traffic your get. More traffic also reinforce your site popularity and hence your ranks in searches.
Here are the URLs where you can submit your site.
Google
Yahoo Search Engine
Alta Vista
Dmoz
Digg
delicious
After submitting your site, check the result for at least 3 to 6 months before attempting a resubmission.
