Is it wise to buy backlinks and submit to search engines? How do people usually start off promoting there site with a low budget?
That's how most people start (buying isn't always what people start doing), you'll also want to submit to directories, create mediocre articles related to your site, and submit them to a few good article directories with keyword anchor text links (in the resource box) pointing back to your site, start building up a few different social profiles on sites like digg.com, propeller, reddit etc.. (one day they'll come in handy ), build a couple squidoo and hubpages pages with great content and put a couple nice links back to your site for credit, start a blog and publish, publish, publish, and finally, find 5 or so blogs that are related to your website and become a member of their community - be a loyal reader and commenter. I have a blog rating service so that you determine which blogs you should use. Oh yeah, install Google Analytics yesterday - have fun!
If you are constraint (limitation or restriction) of budget, better submit your blog to RSS Directories, Blog Directories etc., and increase search engine links. At the same time Post Introduction of your blog on free sites like freewebs.com. Post comments on other blog/website with your blog/site's name instead of your name. This will drastically increase your search links. Best of luck
First, don't buy backlinks. Google will drop the PR of sites that are selling the links to you. Start by submitting your site to the major directories. Then, just start entering content on other blogs, forums, etc. with your link info in it. Also, check out the other sections about linkbuilding. It will give you great advise.
It can take a few hours to get in the search engines (not ranking mind) - I usually get indexed by adding a sig link on here lol.
Yeah adding a sig link on any major forum or in an article submitted to any of the major article directories will get you site crawled ASAP.
Don't buy links. Go the more organic way. Post in relevant forums, comment in relevant blogs, get links from relevant bloggers, join social media like Twitter and Stumbleupon... build original and keyword-rich content and submit your sitemap via Google webmaster tools. That should set you on the way...