In order to get maximum exposure to your Web page, you need to manually visit each search engine that you want to find you and tell it where your page is. There are some search engines that claim they automatically "spider" the Web and index pages as they find them, but after six months I could not find any that had found this site.
The best way to ensure your site gets indexed is to go to the appropriate search engine page and add your URL to it. Some of them may take two to three weeks to include you in their indexes, while others are instantaneous.
The following are the most popular search engines in use (in alphabetical order). Feel free to visit as many of them as you'd like. The more you include, the greater your Web exposure.
Alta Vista (requires you to use Meta Tags)
http://altavista.digital.com/av/content/addurl.htm
AOL NetFind
http://www.aol.com/netfind/info/addurl.html
Excite / WebCrawler
http://www.excite.com/Info/add_url.html
HOTBOT
http://www.hotbot.com/addurl.html
InfoSeek
http://www.infoseek.com/AddUrl?pg=DCaddurl.html&sv=N5
LookSmart
Go to: http://www.looksmart.com/r?l&e51700
Then, scroll to the page bottom and click on "Submit or change a site in this category"
Lycos
http://www.lycos.com/addasite.html
Magellan
http://www.mckinley.com/magellan/Info/addsite.html
NorthernLight
http://www.northernlight.com/docs/regurl_help.html
Open Text
http://index.opentext.net/main/submitURL.html
Yahoo!
Go to: http://www.yahoo.com/Society_and_Culture/Environment_and_Nature/Sustainable_Development/
Then, click on the button at the page top called "Add URL"
The Mining Company has a nice summary of tips for submitting pages to all of these search engines:
http://html.miningco.com/msubpromote.htm
The Brick lists another set of search engine sites, and offers tips:
http://207.217.39.6/thebrick/tips.htm
These are the most popular search engines. However, there are hundreds of
other engines out there. For a pretty comprehensive listing, see:
http://www.iglou.com/zamboni/search.html