There are a discussion about if it is really necessary to submit your url or website to the search engines. The answer is yes or no. If you have a good site that search engines visit very often like at daily basis, you can put a link to your url at that site. When search engines visit that site, it will pick up your url. So there is no need to submit to search engine. However, this is under the assumption that all search engines visit the site very often. This is generally not true. There might be some search engines visit the site very often but not all search engines visit it often. In order to get your url into all search engines as quickly as possible, you need to submit it to search engines directly.

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