Yep pretty much, that's my understanding. brianj is the resident SEO expert though, so I'll defer to him ;)

Yes and no. There are other ways of getting immediate attention, check out stumbleupon.com, I have an associate that listed his site and got 1000 unique visitors the next day! A brand new site.

or if your site is news worthy and techy, try sites like Digg. Tapping into a user community can be a powerful way to get the word out and its free!

Try blogs and other forums that are related to your site contents. Please do not jump in there and be spammy with your postings. Only post if it's relavent content. You're going to get the best traffic if your posting is on a relavent site anyway!

ok... you can try free community event calendars(I don't know what the web site is about though) or contact your local newspaper online blog editor... I could give you more specific ideas if I knew what the site was about, if you have a specific site in mind ;)

There are other ideas. again, having a specific site it's easier to recommend ideas that have a better chance of succeeding!

Search Engine Optimization Link Inclusion
 

Most of the website owners ask this question regarding inclusing within google and yahoo.

However the truth is that, you dont necessarily need to submit your website to search engines. All different websites like web directories ( free/paid), blogs, forums and several other website are regularly crawled by both Google and Yahoo.

If you submit your website to these directories, search engines will automatically pick up your url.

Search Engine Submit
 

Here are the links to submit your site or blog:

Goo gle:
http://www.google.com/addurl/?continue=/addurl

Yahoo:
https://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/submit

MSN Live:
http://search.live.com/docs/submit.aspx

Good luck!

Hi,
anyone informed to me, the best way adding Search Engine.

You must go for google home page and just click on about google link. there is a link where you can add your blog or site whatever you want to add.

Here are the submit links:

Google - http://www.google.com/addurl.html

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

Hophunt.com - http://www.hophunt.com/addurl.html

Yahoo - http://search.yahoo.com/info/submit.html

I wasn't aware that hophunt.com is on par with Google, MSN and Yahoo. It's ranked 257,000 in Alexa, so it's not exactly relevant.