Website promotion is a sticky business, many methods of getting more hits are either risky - or cost money, however in this tutorial i will delve into the idea of getting more hits via search engines.

First lets take a look at the "Big 3", Google, Yahoo, and MSN are the three most used search engines in the world. If you can get a listing in one or all of these, you are well on the way to massively increasing your hits.

So the first step is to get submitted to the search engines, there are two main methods for this.

1) Wait for google to find your site its self.

Its likely that search engines will find your site its self, as long as  you have links to your site from sites that google has already indexed, the more sites your link is on - the faster you will be indexed.

2) Using a search engine submission service

Using another website to submit your site to search engines is one of the most commonly used techniques, a good free website that does this would be addme.com , however this site requires much sign up which can be a hassle.

Now that the search engines have listed you , you are feeling quite happy - until you realize that nobody will see a site that is listed on page 300 of google, so you realize that your next task will be to climb up the list and try and make it to the first page, or if you are feeling really adventurous maybe even the first result!