Search Engine Optimisation (SEO)

You need to add a lot of extra code through out your website to help improve your ranking, such as ALT TAGs, META keywords and META description etc. Search on Google for more information about META TAGs and ALT TAG's.

Overture is another Search Engine and they have designed a system to help you check how many times keywords and phrases are searched for on their website.

A small number such as 500 is bad, a larger number such as 2000 is good but too large such as 500000 is again bad. http://inventory.overture.com/d/searchinventory/suggestion/

Other things that can help rankings are;
• having links to your website from other peoples websites
• the more people that visit your website the better ranking you can get
• make sure all your web pages have TITLES
• adding ALT tags to all your images
• using the keywords you picked for the META keywords throughout your website

If you search the web for tips on improving search engine rankings or SEO or Search Engine Optimisation you should find some more info on the above points.

Once you have added META tags you will then need to submit your website to the search engines which is sometimes free but a lot of the time you have to pay for it.

Google is free however - http://www.google.co.uk/addurl/?continue=/addurl

Although please be aware, even when your code is improved you still aren't guaranteed a place.

The most affective way to get top is to pay for it, which can sometime be expensive. There are a lot of companies who you can employ to do the SEO for you but please be careful, it is very hard to get high rankings and SEO companies will very often promise things that they cannot achieve.

Take a look at Google Ads by using this link. They can be useful - https://adwords.google.com/select/

How do I register my site with search engines?
In order for your site to be listed within search engines you must register it with them. The search engine will then send a 'bot' to visit your site and index it. The whole process can take up to a month or more.

You can add your site to a number of search engines for free but sometimes you will have to pay to be listed.
One of the best alternatives is DMOZ www.dmoz.org - put your site into the best fitting category using the menus at the top. This will also list your site into many other search engines.

There are also many marketing techniques used to achieve search engine inclusion. Please see a specialist site such as searchenginewatch.com for tutorials and information on how this works.