Search engine submission is an act of supplying or adding a URL to a search engine in an attempt to make a search engine aware of a site or web page. Search engine sometimes asks for additional information about web pages like title, keywords, description etc.

There are two basic reasons to submit a web page or web site to a search engine. The first reason is to update website in search engine and secondly to add it in search engine as web master don’t want to wait for a search engine to discover the site.

Search engine submission is only necessary if the major search engines are not able to found the site. Most major search sites frequently revisit already indexed sites to ensure that their search results reflect current content.

The better optimized the page is, the higher a ranking it will achieve in search engine result listings. This is one of the most important parts because most people who use search engines only look at the first page or two of the search results, so it would be best if site is listed in first two pages of search engine.

Manual search engine submission may be more time consuming than automated search engine submission, but a fair amount of search engine optimization (SEO) specialists stick with the old fashioned way.

Reason is submitting site manually is a way of staying on the good side of the search engine, automated submission using software’s is considered as a SPAM technique to promote website or business. Even some popular search engines like AltaVista discourage automatic submission and may ban website permanently also to be indexed in their search engines.