Does anyone know a web host that lists you on search engines and such?

You dont need that, go with any host!

Manually submit your site to google

and then in the html add this

<meta name="keywords" content="scouts,camping,tents,hiking,cooking,food,hammocks,bsa" />

but use your keywords, its one of the best ways of getting high rankings, thats how google searches for sites and gives them the top ranks

Hello Labman.

Well, I own a web hosting and development company, eVentureBiz.

If you host with us I'd be more than happy to list your site on search engines and help you optimize your website for search engines. All you'd have to do is either contact me through my blog's contact me page or post in our community forum.

If you visit our site, you'll see we look totally different from other hosting companies. All the same great tools, more informative and interactive website.

If you're interested, let me know.

John

ceo and founder of eVentureBiz

http://www.eventurebiz.com/

Dear friend, it is possible that you add your website to google and yahoo manually, but you are not able to find all major search engines and do it to get more traffic!

The only web hosting service which fulfills this requirement is BlueHost which adds your website to tens of major search engines for Free!

You can go there through the address below:

http://bluehost-features.atspace.com/

Here I have copied and pasted its features from their website to view:

- Free Domain Forever

- 1500 Gigabyte Hosting Space

- 15000 GIGS of Transfer

- Host UNLIMITED Domains (Support All Domain Names)

- 2,500 POP/Imap Email Accounts

- SSH (Secure Shell), SSL, FTP, Stats

- CGI, Ruby (RoR), Perl, PHP, MySQL

- 2000/2002 Front Page Extensions

- Free Site Builder

- 24/7 Superb/Responsive Sales/Support

- Free Search Engine Submission

They offer an installing service called "Fantastico". By using this service, you can easily create your forum, blog, photo gallery, shopping carts etc. They also offer "Free Site Builder" that helps you build your web pages without difficulty if you are not skilled in using any creating website programs.

******IMPORTANT*******

* This service was awarded as the best Web Host 2008.

* If you sign up for this service you will have $100 credits to advertise your website with the google & yahoo search engines for free!

* If you don't exactly know what technical features you need for setting up your website, I recommend BlueHost as a full-featured service which fulfills all your requirements.

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Good Luck!

You don't need to pay to get yourself listed. The search engine spiders will crawl your pages automatically. Check out the latest web hosting deals to save $$$:

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http://www.flowinternet.net/ is a very low cost host, but their hosting control panel has a free search engine submission that submits your domains to the top search engines etc.

They also do more professional search submissions as extras which cost a little more, but I never found the use in those.

They're the cheapest / best way to go about it IMO if you don't want to do it all manually.

You do not need to pay anybody to get your website listed in google, just submit it yourself, godaddy web hosting sucks, I moved to another web hosting provider http://aplis.net/ you can also give them a try.