So you’ve got your brand spanking new website uploaded to your web host and you sit back and say, “Now what?” Actually, the work has just begun. Now comes the hard part, getting your site noticed and ranked in the search engines. It’s not rocket science, but it does entail some work. Fortunately, this work can be outsourced if you need to. Here are 10 great ways to get your site into the search engines.

1. Submit Your Site — Some search engines are beneficial to submit to, these being Yahoo and MSN(Bing). There are forms on each site that enable you to submit your site for inclusion. Google prefers to find your site organically, though they also have a form to submit.

2. RSS Feeds — Submitting your site’s RSS feed to the RSS aggregators will get you spidered and indexed very quickly, especially with Google. They spider the RSS sites several times a day, and you will be found.

3. Blog About It — If you have an active blog, devote a blog post to your new creation, and then ping your post.

4. Utilize Web 2.0 Sites — There are many Web 2.0 sites out there that get a great deal of love from the search engines, meaning that the search engines are always trolling their sites looking for great content. Some of these sites include places like Squidoo, HubPages, Weebly, MySpace, Facebook, YouTube, Tumblr, Tripod and others. It’s very easy to set up a page on these properties to drop a link to your new site.

5. Article Directories – Write an article about the subject or content of your site (not an ad for it!) and submit it to several of the top article directories. They will allow you to put links to your site in the article resource box at the end of your article. Several of the top ones that get a lot of traffic include Ezine Articles, GoArticles, ArticlesBase, and Buzzle.

6. Links — Getting a few relevant links from sites preferably in your niche or market will help get your sited noticed and ranked. Try and go for sites that allow “follow” links, as opposed to “no-follow”, as it does make a difference.

7. Blog Comments — Leave comments on blogs with a link to your site. Make sure to post useful, sincere comments, or you will likely find that your comment along with your link will be deleted.

8. Forum, Group and Email Signatures — If you belong to any forums or groups that allow you to attach a signature, you need to take advantage of that by adding your site there.

9. Google Maps — If your business has a physical location that customers can come to, you need to submit your site to Google Maps for inclusion. This is an easy way to get a page 1 ranking in the Google Maps listing for local search.

10. Videos — If you have videos about your business, it is a very simple thing to put a link to your site in the video description. Then make sure you submit the video to various video sites like YouTube, Viddler, DailyMotion, MetaCafe, and others. These sites are visited often by the search engines, and they love video.

Using any combination of the 10 methods will very likely result in getting your site first noticed, then indexed and then ranked.