Free Web Submission
Our favourite place on the Web for free Web site submission. If you need to announce your site to numerous search engines and directories, both manually and automatically, this is the place to do it. If you're submitting manually, all the highest-rated engines and directories are included here, along with their relevant "submission" pages. As mentioned, you can also submit automatically and have the results e-mailed to you. This is a great free service and ideal for those with new Web sites.
> New Web site authors will find the FAQ page here particularly useful. If you are new to Web site promotion, be sure to read this!
> This site also features a meta tag generator, link popularity checker, Web page analyser and keyword popularity checker.
HowIPromoteMyWebsite.com
An invaluable free resource for Webmasters wishing to increase Web site traffic levels. HowIPromoteMyWebsite.com includes numerous interesting articles, which cover issues such as optimising your pages for search engines, building in-bound links, writing press releases, viral marketing, along with more advanced strategies. A free e-zine is also available to subscribe to.
SocialTwist Tell-a-Friend
Here's another excellent free tell-a-friend service. If you want to allow visitors to instantly broadcast your Web site's URL to their e-mail, messenger and social networking contacts, be sure to give this service a go. Once registered, you can easily integrate a button on your pages, which not only looks great, it means visitors never have to leave your site to share your Web address.
Free Tell A Friend
This free service for Webmasters enables you to add a small, "tell a friend" button to your Web site's pages. Word of mouth is particularly powerful and this service allows visitors to broadcast your name to their contact lists - or even individual recipients. To add the button, you simply need to copy and paste a small snippet of HTML code into your pages.
SelfPromotion.com
Offers over 300 links to search engine submission pages. Spending some time submitting your site to all of them is well worth it! Self Promotion.com is very detailed and provides the best information on the Web. They also give tested tips on getting listed in the popular directory, Yahoo! It's a free service where you pay only if you're satisfied.
LinkBox.ws
This well-presented site provides a free text link exchange service where participating Web sites can display links in exchange for credits. These credits are then converted into traffic from other sites displaying the LinkBox. The exchange ratio here is 1:1, meaning for every person who clicks on a link you display, somebody will be sent to your pages from another member site.
A Promotion Guide
Includes plenty of useful information about Web site promotion, particularly search engine optimisation and submitting to directories. However, at A Promotion Guide, you'll also find details about how to promote your site using other methods, such as banner advertising, reciprocal linking and Usenet advertising. It's both well-written and very informative.
Search Engine Forums
A large community of search engine enthusiasts, top rank "wannabees" and Web marketing experts. The forums at "JimWorld" are very busy and have hundreds of posts, plus plenty of experienced Webmasters aiming to swap their ideas and knowledge. All major search engines are covered, plus help forums and specific regional directories.
Submit Express
Amongst other commercial products, Submit Express offers free Web site URL submission to 40 of the the Internet's major search engines. They also provide a completely free online meta tag generator that will help you to increase your rank and have various e-mail news subscriptions that visitors can subscribe to. We've found this to be a very helpful promotion site.