Every time some one uses submission form provided by the search engines to submit a site, a thank you note comes up and a statement that it may take more than few weeks for your website to be listed with that particular search engine. If this is the only method you use to promote your website it is very likely to take more than few weeks for your site to appear in the search engines.
If you would like your website to be listed in the major search engines like Google, Yahoo or MSN, it is much better if they discover your website on their own. One way they can find your website is to have and incoming high quality link from another website to your own website. High quality does not necessarily mean high rank, it simply means a link to your website on the website that is being frequently indexed by search engines. You can achieve in several different ways:
Find a blog that is closely related to the content of your website. If you can post comments on that blog, take this opportunity, but do not post senseless and unrelated comments, otherwise your comments may be deleted.
Many people have reported that their sites got indexed if they have shared the content of their website on the sites like www.digg.com and www.bluedot.us. These two sites are highly trafficked sites, and on top of being indexed frequently by the search engines may send your way many visitors.
Finally use on line article distribution websites. Many web-masters are constantly looking for a good quality content to include in their website or a newsletter. When submitting an article remember to include a link back to your website. This can be done by either inserting the link in the content of your article or in the reference space provided just for that purpose. You should read the terms of service first, since some of the sites will not allow you to have a link in the first paragraph of your article and you may be limited to a certain number of links your article can contain.
Web-masters that have used above methods to promote their website report that their websites were indexed by the search engines as quickly as 48 hours from the time they submitted articles and content to other high trafficked web-sites.
