After you finished making your homepage, you may want other people to view it, and the world know its existence. The fast way is to submit it to search engines, directories, and add it to some free link pages, and join some banner exchange program.
The most effective way to promote it is through search engine. To submit your page to major search engine by yourself, but sometimes it is very time consuming, so you might want submit your page automatically. One thing you should remember is that they only submit your site through some kind of form and usually did not tailor for specific search engine or directory, so the results are not as good as if you do it yourself, but it is fast. You can use these services submit your sites to some free listings, award sites, and others not so important as the major search engine and directories.
There are a lot of places to promote, and this page only gives you some of them, which do not cost you a penny to make your page well know.