Link popularity

Submitting your site to search engines alone is not enough. You also need to work on building link popularity of your site. This factor has grown in importance in the last years. For example, Google is hesitant to list a site that doesn't have at least one link from other domain indicating that the site is worth listing in its index. In addition, if your link popularity isn't high enough, you'll never achieve top rankings on many keywords.

The best thing you can do is to submit your site to the major directories: Yahoo! and Open Directory. Links from them are the most "credentializing"…