SEO stand for Search Engine Optimization. It’s a fancy term that means a website is user friendly to search engines bots. When you use SEO on a site you fix the site’s meta tags, title, discription, and even the body of the index page, among other things to give the bots the best possible idea what your page is about and how relevant the content is to everything else on the page.
Most search engines have a submission form making it easy to get you listed from a few days to a week and often a site with SEO techniques on it won’t matter at all for them. You won’t be at the top of the rankings, but that’s the price you’ll pay for doing it for free and with a 2nd tier or lower search engine. Even Yahoo has submission forms, and now multiple of them depending on the purpose of the site. Google however, has surpassed Yahoo in usage, making it the current #1 search engine in the world, so it’s really them you want to be listed in.
Google’s search engine bot is automated. There are no more manual submissions put into the Google index anymore. It’s been said using their submission form could take a week to years to...