Thank You! As a newbie at SEO you've given me direction and I appreciate it!

I do have a question though. Concerning submitting to search engines. At one time I read that it wasn't a good idea to submit to google because google likes to find on its own links to your site. But now Google is beta-testing their new Sitemaps submission protocol. SENew as of 2005. Is this the way to go or is this old news and out of date.

Thanks for the help - if this is posted in the wrong place just let me know and I'll repost.