Getting on the search engines

[dashmo37]

I need help finding info on how to get your website to come up in a search. How do you get listed? Do you pay? Not afraid to read here but I just keep finding the same old info. TIA

[Trae]

When I first built my site, I listed it with www.dmoz.org, which will help you get listed on most of the major search engines. It takes about 6 months but worth it. I also listed thru www.add-me.com and that helped as well. Some people don't agree with it, but I also joined a lot of link swaps. It really does help. I did most of the swapping thru www.linkpartners.com. Besides alol that, just make sure your meta tags for your site list everything you can think of so when people use a certain keyword to search for your products, they will come up. Hope that gives you a starting point.

Trae

[weirdstuffinmydesk]

Check with

Traci at The Creative Concept

http://www.thecreativeconcept.com/

site design, graphics, ads, pr, marketing strategies

She rocks at this type of work and it looks as if she has a special running right now.

Tell her Rachel sent ya!

[RobinInOR]

Alan I think is a reviewer for the candle section of dmoz.

Also, the easiest 2 things you can do to advance your normal search engine status are CONTENT and LINKS.

Most search engines really look at the content of your page. Make sure you use the words that you want people to look for. Test search engines - search using the words you'd want people to look for, and see what sites come up. Look at them to figure out why.

And links - the more people link to your site, the higher your ranking too. They see links to your site as "popularity"

[StacysScentsations(DH)]

pm me with your site addy and I will take care of it for you. At least to get it listed then if you want you can follow up with some of the others suggestions.

Doug