If you’re tired of waiting weeks for your websites to be crawled and listed in search engines, you don’t need more patience…you just need a better search engine submission method.

Chances are that one or both of the following items appear on your website post-launch checklist:

• Submitting your URL to Google/Yahoo/MSN via a URL submission form
• Submitting an XML site map to Google

Take those steps, and the search engines will find you…eventually.

But if you’d prefer being indexed in days, even hours, try this instead: submit your site to Digg (or another high-profile social bookmarking site).  Since the whole purpose of Digg is to allow users to find and share popular new destinations on the web, search engines are constantly crawling its pages in an effort to serve up relevant results to searchers.  And since your Digg submission will contain a link to your website, the search engine crawler will find its way to your site, too.

Anecdotally, I’ve seen this technique prove most effective with Google, with sites ranking for phrases within hours.

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