RE: [PHP] Search Engines

A) It is better for google to find your site via a link (or thousands) to your site. B) You want to get into DMOZ.Com. It feeds almost every "search engine". C) Don't pay someone to target your site unless they're in the top 10 at Google for your theme. D) If you are going to pay for Search Engine submission, do it at inktomi. E) Focus on the directories, providing real/contextual content, and establishing a theme. F) After google, target AllTheWeb.Com and Fast. G) Some Search Engines will "bonk" you for using mass-submission tools. Do it all by hand. ... ... ... Z) Pray :) Everything in the search engine game is trial and error. Spend time reading search engine forums and web developer articles. Find out what other people are doing and how successful they are. The engines obviously don't publish their algorithms but if you are observant enough you might grasp about 30% of it. J -----Original Message----- From: Heidi Belal [mailto:hmbelal@yahoo.com] Subject: [PHP] Search Engines Hi All, this may be a bit off topic, but i need/advise on where and how i can register a site in the top search engines. I know there are all these sites where you can do it but do you have recommendations? My other question is, why do we have to pay for this, or what does paying provide from those where you don't have to pay do? I thought there were robots that go around linking from page to page and indexing the webpages..so that when a search is run the pages relevant are found, so what does paying do? thanks! Heidi