You had a plan for a business, you need a website, now the website is done. What next?

How do you inform search engines that your website existed and inform them to index your website?

When i started working on Search Engine Optimization ( SEO ) for 3 ecommerce sites in 2006, this was the first question i had in mind.

Following are the ways of getting your website indexed by search engines -

• Submit site to dmoz -
  Go to dmoz - open directory project and submit site to dmoz , search engines (like google, yahoo etc.) get the data from dmoz - open directory and they crawl the websites.
• Submit site to google -
  Go to google search and submit site to google search engine, this will inform google to crawl your website.
• Submit site to yahoo -
  Go to yahoo search and submit site to yahoo search, this will inform yahoo to crawl your website
• Submit site to live -
  Go to live search and submit site to live search, this will inform live search to crawl your website
• Create sitemap and ping search engines
• Mention the sitemap path in robots.txt