If you have a healthcare Web site, you better be sure that your Web site is listed on the major internet search engines. Most people use internet search engines to find information, products and services on the WWW.

When your Web site is fully optimized for search engines, one should actively submit their Web site to internet search engines, human directories, internet portals. It is no easy task promoting your Web site on the internet as the search submission process is time intensive and search engines themselves constantly change their search formulas and submission requirements.

Some search engines still allow free search engine submission. Free submissions to a search engine can be successful; however, please realize that some search engines - like HotBot or human directories like Yahoo, will penalize a free submission and ignore your Web site URL. Free search listings generally take two to four months before a Web site appears in the search engine database results.