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Search engines can be an incredible form of FREE advertising. Get your site listed high on a major search engine and your hits can zoom to 2,000 visitors a day. Sales will soar overnight!

Unfortunately you, me, and many others have had a hard time getting that elusive search engine listing. You may have tweaked your site for what search engine spiders are looking for, then carefully registered your site with dozens of engines, then waited weeks while nothing happened.

Let me give you some surprising reasons why your listing isn't getting seen. I'll also let you in on some insider ways to easily get in the back door of key search engines.

**Uh Oh! We lost your listing.** Last fall Alta Vista, which had just bumped past Yahoo in popularity, suddenly dumped millions of listings from their database. Reports say they accidentally reformatted a few key hard drives. OOPS!

Meanwhile, several major search engines where taking your URL submission and would promise to index your site. We now know they were unceremoniously dumping those submissions in the trash. If you went back and tried to find your listing and it wasn't there, you probably were not listed.

And Yahoo is another story. While they attract a full 55% of search engine users, their directory is notoriously hard to get listed on.

**Check your listing.** Take a moment to see if you are currently listed in major search engines. Expert say there are really only three that you need to be concerned with.

"Type your web address into Yahoo, Alta Vista, and Excite. Those three account for 88% of all search engine traffic. If your site comes up, you're listed.

-- Editor's Note -- You can submit your site to the major search engines Free (including Alta Vista and Excite) at: Submit Plus

I checked to see if my Sav-Alot-Travel.com was listed. Because I registered with all of them last month, I figured I would pass with flying colors. Wrong. Alta Vista had us listed fine, Excite didn't have us listed but offered me wallpaper with my domain printed on it, and Yahoo came up with a site I discontinued two years ago.

You can EASILY get listed on several major search engines by going through the back door. Yahoo and several others get their listings from the Inktomi database. Get listed on that database by submitting your site to Canada.com. They will have you up in three days or less. By default, Yahoo will have you listed, too.

Also hop over to dmoz.org. This is the Open Directory Project begun by several key players from Netscape. It's a snap to get listed and their database is the one Lycos and Hotbot use.

By all means RE-register with Alta Vista--three or four times. Alta Vista has several databases they rotate (which explains why your site is listed high one minute and not the next). Submit your URL every week for four weeks to cover the entire system.

While you are at Alta Vista, check their short tutorial on how to write Meta Tags for your pages. Find it on the "add url" page Several engines use Meta Tags to list your site.

Take time to write an appealing description for your site to go in your Meta Tags. This is the description that appears next to your link on search engines. Even if you aren't ranked tops, a good description will draw plenty of traffic.

Make sure the words people use to search for you are listed in your page Title and again in your page's copy. If a search word appears in the title but NOT the copy, the engine will ignore it.

Keep up on the latest developments with search engines right here. By all means, check out our excellent web submission service which takes the effort out of gettting and staying listed on over 13,000 search engines. Cost on search engine submission for 6 months: you pay Only $50 at Verica