Search Engine submission costs $$$?

[Jumpman]

I'm trying to submit a real estate website (which is a commerical site) to Yahoo!, Lyocs, etc... and I keep on getting a message that I have to pay money to get special consideration for a commerical site. Is there any way to get around this because I thought that search engine submission could be free. Thank you.

[QuackHead]

Search engine submission can be done for free.. but, you get what you pay for (nothing)

Now, I wouldn't go as far as saying, the more you pay, the better the submission, but I garuntee you that if you pay a professional company to submit your site to the top SEs, you'll get a much better result than one of the free places...

~Quack

[allida77]

Search google for tips and tricks on ranking your web site with search engines. The one thing I learned is to have patience. It took about 3 months before a site I worked on got well ranked on search engines. I would not call myself an expert but I know that I would not pay for something when there are plenty of resources out there to help.

[WA]

There are free search engine submission services out there. One of the better ones is http://www.jimtools.com Only flaw is that your email address is automatically added to their newsletter, so keep that in mind when inputting it.