It wasn't always this way, but the importance of search engine optimization well recognized today. Most people understand that this is a process necessary for increasing a company's online visibility and pushing relevant traffic to brand websites. Fewer realize that inclusion in the results pages only happens thanks to the complex algorithms that Google, Yahoo and Bing use to crawl, index and set value to websites.

It is because so many lack a fundamental understanding of SEO processes that advertisements offering to "submit websites to 10,000 search engines" for some outrageously low price actually work. The cold hard truth is that these promotions are complete bullshit and a total scam. (Keep in mind that there aren't even 10K search engines in existence, let alone important ones.)

Even though the aforementioned search engine platforms are far from the only ones available online, the only ones that you need to worry about are the top three. Not only do they dominate approximately 98% of the Internet, the vast majority of smaller search engines actually pull their results from these primary players. So in plain English: if you get listed on Google, Bing and Yahoo, you'll essentially cover the entire web.

Links to submit your website for indexing on the top search engines are listed below.

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Bing
Yahoo