> Nowadays you really don't have to do anything as the big search
engines will
> find it on their own.
> You can submit to Google here:  http://www.google.com/addurl.html
> There is never a need to spend any money to do this, if you're willing
to
> spend a little time on it. Many a dollar has been wasted on these
multiple
> submit schemes.
> My personal guru is at:  http://www.highrankings.com/  where you can
learn
> all you need to know.

You could do all that several years ago too.  But, don't they use 'meta
tags' anymore?  It's a lot easier than submitting to individual search
engines, and much faster.  That's what I used back then, and it got my
site into the first 10 listed in all the search engines, and only took a
few minutes to write the code.  It's simply a matter of listing key
words for the engines, in HTML code they recognize, that draws their
attention to those key words.  (You use the words that are most
applicable to your site - the words you think people would use to do
searches.)  I don't know how it is now, because I dropped my site a few
years ago, but it used to be that, search engines would look at meta
tags first to find the words a searcher was looking for.  They only
scanned the first 'x' number of words on the site otherwise, so, if you
didn't use meta tags, the key search words could be missed, and people
wouldn't find you....or you'd be way down the line in search results.
For all I know, the search engines now look at ALL the words on a site,
since computers keep getting faster.  I'd be interested to know if it
still works the way it used to, though, if anyone has more current
information.  (When I did my site, I simply went to the library and got
some books on HTML and wrote all the code myself.  I don't think they
even had programs to do websites then.  That's how I learned about meta
tags.  You could probably do the same thing now and get more current
information.)
Carol Hanson

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