If you know of any tried and tested methods, please feel free to contact me to have them added. For now here's a few points to get you started. Remember while employing these methods will help you, it does not guarantee you a #1 listing. Perseverence is the key! Before you begin pick 3-5 central keywords you want to rank for. Try not to pick anything to specific, as you'll be facing a lot of competition. Invite people to link to your website, using those three keywords in the anchor text.

There are a couple of things you must do to prepare your Web site before submitting them to Search Engines. First, you need to insert Meta Tags on each of your pages. Meta Tags include a title, short description, and common keywords about the contents of your web page. These tags inform the Search Engines what your page is about and will tell them how to search for it. Select "Meta Tags" from the File menu in EZ-PageBuilder to create your Meta Tags. Click here for detailed instructions.

In order for your web site to achieve a top position in Google, Yahoo, and other search engines, popular keywords must be used as META-tags in your site’s code and more importantly must be strategically positioned within the copy and structure of your web site This will ensure greater visibility to search engine “robots” that roam the web in search of sites that match keyword inputs.

You should update your listings in the major Search Engines and Directories (Yahoo, Lycos, Altavista, HotBot, Excite, etc.) if you have made any significant changes to your web site such as: changing your domain name, changing file or directory names, moving pages to different directories, adding or deleting files, or making significant changes to the text on a page for which you want your listing updated quickly.

We always include coding in the web pages to enable them to be seen by search engine "crawlers". And the layout of a web page has some effect on how easily it can be found, so we design to maximize this. And, we can submit your site to Google and other major search engines. So your site will start appearing within a short time of completion. For maximum exposure, we recommend a targeted, paid optimization plan, through Google Adwords, Overture or other specialists.

There are two main ways to get listed at the top of the search engines; through Optimization and through Pay-Per-Click where you can “buy your way to the top” within many of the well known search engines.

Search engine optimization needs to be maintained. Each search engine shifts and changes on a daily basis. A good SEO will stay on top of the changes at search engines and make sure that your web site keeps up with new tactics and practices.

Once your site has been submitted to the top Search Engines they may take several weeks, or even months to actually spider and list your web site in their directory. How fast your site is listed depends on each individual Search Engines database update schedule. Watch your server traffic logs for visiting spiders.

Our suggestion is that you can submit your web site up to 1 time per month to the major search engines, and then up to 1 time per day to the FFA's and smaller directories. If you submit your site to the entire database at least 1 time per month, you will keep your site active with the search engines and increase or maintain your engine positions. How often is the database updated? The database is maintained and updated 1 time per month.

Though we do not recommend submitting to 1500 engines. The truth is that other search engine robots receive their results from the primary ones we submit to. On your request, we can submit your web site to up to 1500 search engines, directories and linked lists at no extra cost to you.

The secret to good search engine performance is having a site with a focus on a specific niche. Your site can be set up with all the right tags and content to help you achieve this. Remember too that your site is a great tool to convert a measurable percentage of visitors into leads - therefore using PAY PER CLICK strategies can prove very effective.

Once your web site is on-line, you will want visitors (to help increase sales, and exposure). To do this, you will want to make sure your web site is setup properly for search engines to easily 'rate and index' your site. The methods that each search engine use are varied, and change often (to help make sure content is fresh and new that they rate high on their search results). Here are a couple of good links that can help you get started