Hello,

Here is a great list of search engine URL's where you can submit your own website. Included are some short descriptions that might help you. If anyone has any questions or possible additions to the list, feel free to post.

Google
By far the most important search engine. Google powers Yahoo!, AOL, Netscape, and several others. Add your URL here:
http://www.google.com/addurl.html
It's highly recommended that you read this:
http://www.google.com/webmasters/seo.html

Yahoo!
Non-commercial sites may be submitted for consideration for free. Commercial sites require an annual payment of $299 to be considered for inclusion.
http://docs.yahoo.com/info/suggest/

Inktomi
Inktomi provides SERPs to many high profile portals, including MSN. Add your URL here:
http://ink.ineedhits.com/

Dmoz
Directions on how to add your site to the Open Directory are here:
http://dmoz.org/add.html
You will need to find the most appropriate category in the directory, and click on the "Add URL" button in the upper right hand corner.
If you try to stuff the description with keywords an editor may leave your site in unreview, or delete it. Try to describe your site in a balanced manner.

Overture
The Overture SE is a pay per click search engine. Minimum click cost is 5 cents. Overture has a very wide distribution including MSN Search, Yahoo!, Lycos, AltaVista, and InfoSpace.
http://www.overture.com/d/USm/about/advertisers/

AltaVista
In December, 30.1 million unique users performed 505m queries on AltaVista.
Submit for free here:
http://addurl.altavista.com/addurl/new

LookSmart
The LookSmart Web Directory provides some SERPs for MSN Search. LookSmart uses a pay per click format, charging 15 cents per click. Submit here:
http://listings.looksmart.com/submit/
LookSmart also uses, and owns, Zeal web directory listings. Only non-commercial sites can submit to Zeal. Go to:
http://zeal.com/

Fast/ AllTheWeb
The FAST search engine provides SERPs in several high traffic portals, including Lycos. Submit your URL for free here:
www.alltheweb.com/add_url.php

Teoma/ Ask Jeeves
Popular search engine Ask Jeeves requires $30 per URL to guarantee inclusion. Submit here:
http://ask.ineedhits.com/

WebCrawler
https://secure.ah-ha.com/guaranteed_inclusion/teaser.aspx

JoeAnt
JoeAnt allows you to add your own site if you first become an editor. The application process is very easy and this directory is supported by a community of editors that will welcome you in warmly.
http://www.joeant.com/suggest.html

GoGuides
Also free to submit:
http://www.goguides.org/info/addurl.htm

Visit http://www.foundfirst.com/show.php for a larger list of manual submission sites.

beware of the pop-ups at that link also i got 11

These are the only SE's most people should submit to. When you get emails saying, "Hey let us submit you to 300,000 search engines" - don't do it. It's just a waste of money.
Those search engines listed there have 99% of all searches done on the Internet.

I've heard Yahoo wants $300 US to speed up consideration, but hadn't heard they want that yearly from commercial sites. Anyone have more info on that? What is considered commercial, really? I've had problems using some content because we're considered a commercial site because we have ads on our site.

Is Yahoo becoming   about this? I've submitted several sites over the years to Yahoo and have never been listed. We desperately need this site listed if we hope to get the traffic to buy content.

LOL, I actually think I got a hit to my site from there. That's funny

If you join Zeal to become a zealot at www.zeal.com, you will be able to submit your own site (if it is noncommercial) for free.  I submitted my site this way and was included in Looksmart (Zeal's parent company), MSN, and several other search sites within days.  I have tried for month's to get into Google, but have not had any luck.

Another good option for getting included into search engines is to submit to Inktomi's Search Submit program.  They have three options through PositionTech, and I paid just $39 for one year (this gives you 48 hour refreshes).  Just go to www.inktomi.com and follow the links to check out Search Submit.  I did the paid submission finally because I thought it would help me out rankings wise.  Strangely enough, I am ranged higher from my zeal free site submission than for the paid submission.  Go figure...

Thank you, Coon, about the nice comment concerning my website.

As for Google submission. I submitted my site to them twice (once in late May, then again in early July).  I have searched many different keyword terms on Google, and they do not list me at all.  As it is, I am happy after 3 monthes of trying to get search directories to list my site that some of them finally did.  Zeal and MSN rank me very well, so I imagine that the zeal submission really helped me.  On MSN, I am ranked as the first site for best garden, and the first preview site for Iowa gardening (since only six sites at most can be seen when using IE preview and those are picked by MSN's editors, this was really great for them to do).  At this point, I am no longer as concerned with Google and their listing or not listing me.  If they do, good for them and for me.  If they don't, I won't worry about it.  I will still try the DMOZ submission since it sounds like a good idea.  Thanks for suggesting it, and thanks again for the advice.