A service which charges a fee to submit your site to the search engines for you. Using these services is no longer necessary as it is free to submit to the search engines and submitting to five engines can get your site listed in the main engines. Submission services can be useful in getting listed in the minor engines.
A service that submits a website to the search engines. There are ethical and unethical submission services.
There are different types of submission services available.Submissions to search engines, directories, classified ad sites and newsgroups are done through submission service providers. The benefit of a submission service is the time saving aspect and the broad scope of targets available.
Many web design and hosting firms will submit your site to "hundreds" of search engines. Not very important today and actually banned by many search engines.
A service which charges a fee to submit your site to the search engines for you. Using these will usually be unnecessary as it is free to submit to the search engines and you only need to submit to five separate engines to be listing in every one of the top ten.
Quite a few companies specialize in submitting your website to the search engines, in the hopes that the search engine will quickly index your website. Unfortunately, many of these companies have made too many promises and delivered too little. The way these services work is that typically you pay them a setup fee and provide basic information about your site. These companies then feed your information into an automated script that submits your URL to a large number of search engines. There are several reasons why you should NOT pay for this service: There are only a few major search engines that really matter, and you can submit your URLs yourself for free. There's no need to resubmit your site, once it has been submitted. The search engine will re-spider your site on its own sweet time. Search engines may actually penalize your site for excessive submissions. This practice is known as "Spamming the Index" and is highly frowned upon by the search engines. Submission should be made and tracked by hand, so that each submission can be precisely targeted.
Services exist where the user can have pages submitted to multiple search engines for a fee. The fee is normally very low, but usually not as low as the quality of the submission.
Any agent, which submits your site to many search engines and directories.
A company that will submit your site to multiple engines and directories. Be careful! Many of these services are automatic and run from web sites -- some engines do not accept automated submissions.
A service that will automatically submit your page or website to many search engines at once. These were once popular, but many search engines now ban these types of services.