LifeinAsia - 4:24 pm on Sep 11, 2009 (gmt 0)

So, if everyone could get to the top of the list by just paying $99, don't you think most everyone would already be doing it? And if most everyone was already doing it, how do you fit almost everyone at the top of the list?

Sure, you can pay someone $99 to "submit" your site to search engines. But why pay someone $99 for something you can do yourself for free? Other than G, Y, &M, few other search engines would be worth spending the time to submit to. And the Big 3 probably won't give you any weight for just submitting the site to them- they still look for the important stuff: content, inbound links, etc.

Sorry, but there is no shortcut (except, of course, for the guy hawking the $99 submission deal).