Paid Inclusion & Register with Search Engines

Some directories, such as Yahoo, require that you pay for a
listing. However, when you pay, the listing is usually
‘guaranteed’. Depending on your SEO budget, you may or
may not choose to use paid directory listing services. Before
paying for any listing, make sure the directory is reputable
and is ranked high in the search engines.

Take the time to submit your URL to all search engines. Do
this yourself. The submission services that promise to
submit your sites to hundreds of major search engines are
bogus. There aren’t hundreds of major search engines.
Submitting your site does not guarantee a listing, and it
certainly doesn’t give you a high ranking, but it’s one of the
first steps in any SEO program. Manually submitting your
site to the search engines is the most effective way.