I spent some money today on a web site submission service. There are lots of these services out there. What they do is submit your website address and a description of your site to search engines all over the planet.

Has anyone had any success with this type of advertising before?

I've never tried one but would be very interested in your results.

I started the service today. I also found Retouch Pro today, so it is hard for me to tell what the increase of traffic to my site is from. But i have gotten a big spike in traffic.

Of course the real measurement is done in sales.

Are you refering to software that submits your site to numerous search engines? I used Wolf Pro but I don't think that really paid off much.
DJ

No, I am talking about paying some one that has software to do it for me.

I signed up with the below link.

http://www.trafficmagnet.com

I used one for my first personal website, an Angelfire vanity monstrosity, a few years ago. It worked to a certain extent, but the place I used apparently gave/sold its information to (ahem) "adult" listing services, too. I had some extremely bizarre search engine referrals after I did it.

Suffice it to say that "animal-lover" in my meta keywords information appealed to a particular set of people in a way I never intended.

Not a very pretty story. I can only hope that it wont happen to me. The company I am using apears to be reputable.... but one never knows.