How often should I submit my website to search engines?

Learn how to use sitemaps. I created a simple blog and had it listed on yahoo and google in under 72 hours. Sitemaps are simple files that liste every page on the site and let yahoo and google know when you update them. http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/ http://www.google.com/webmasters/

I submitted to google once, and i'm listed. if you start bombarding them, they will probably delete you completely. it takes about a year for your page to start getting recognized and for your site to get regualr and substantail hits. if you build it they will come....

You won't get traffic just from submitting, you need to have sites linking to yours. If you are going to submit it you should only do it once but it may take weeks before you get indexed. I would suggest you post a free ad on craigslist linking to your site. You will get indexed in a day or two and if you post in a major city you will get some traffic.