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What's the best way to get on search engines? We wish we had a magic formula for this one. At this point the only thing that seems to work is spending a lot of time going to each search engine and submit your site "add URL". Paying homage to the search engine gods may provide some help as well.

• Learn Some Particulars.

There are many resources about ways to get listed in an accurate category. Learn a little about META tags. They are very helpful. Here is a great resource for learning more about search engines and what you can do to get listed. Honestly, the resources are almost endless. Our advice? Do a search on one of the search engines to learn about it on your own.

• Create META Tags.

META tags tell the search engine robots what your site is about. You can use META tags to describe your site with a small paragraph as well as keywords. Remember, spamming META tags is a no no.

If you google search for META TAG GENERATOR you should be able to find sites that will create all the code for you so all you have to do is copy and paste it into your design program. Or you can just click here for the results.

• Doing Submissions.

Each search engine has its own criteria. We recently read that Google reviews all submissions. Some submissions are reviewed with the delete-key. They simply can not review each and every submission so they delete masses when they get behind. So, if you are not yet listed, submit it again.

Some "search engines" are actually search indexes, like Yahoo. Yahoo charges for any business listings, so you may have to pony up to get listed with them. Be sure to check out any site before you pay to get listed with them, and make sure that the listing is worth the cost.

Here are some search sites to get you started. Google, Yahoo, Netscape, MSN