1. Submit your website major search engines
Submitting your site to a search engines like Google, Yahoo, MSN etc... By doing this you alert the search engine to your website's presence and are added to a list of sites to be crawled.
Here are links to submit your site to Google, Yahoo and MSN:
2. Verify your site with Google Webmaster Tools and submit a sitemap
Please see Google Webmaster Tutorial for instructions on verifying your site and submitting a sitemap.
3. Submit your site to Google Local Business Center
If you have a business you can submit your site to Google's Local Business Center Submitting your site to Google's Local Business Center is FREE! When potential customers search Maps for local information, they'll find your business. Here is a link to learn more about Google Local Business Center.
4. Submit your site to website directories
There are numerous directories on the Internet that accept paid and un-paid website submissions. You’ll be able to give your listing a title, short description and link to your website. Don’t ever pay someone to “submit your website to 200 directories,” this is not looked highly upon by search engines.
A few web directories to get you started:
5. Get involved in social networking
A great way to develop a following for your website is to get involved in the social networking arena. Becoming active on social networking sites will bring traffic to your site as well as develop back links. The goal of this is to get social with others on the web while promoting your site at the same time.
A few hot social networking sites right now: