When I design a basic personal website, what do I need to do to have it pop up in a search result?
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The more "key words" you use in your page, the more likely it will come up in a search. If you look, sometimes you'll see sites that have what appear to be random words grouped together somewhere on the page, that's why they do it. Also, for a small fee, you can pay to have your site be hit a minimum times per day.
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Hi Stephen,\n\nWhen you publish your site with Yahoo!, we automatically submit your site to Yahoo! Search, but unfortunately this doesn't always mean that your site will beat out other sites in the search results -- there's a lot of competition out there, and many sites jockeying for the same top spots.\n\nThere are several things you can do to make your site easier to find, from adding keywords to your pages and sending out email newsletters to signing up for a "pay-for-placement" service like Yahoo! Sponsored Search, which is aimed at small businesses and can be very affordable. Visit the Promote tab of your Web Hosting Control Panel for a look at some available services, or check out our help center for more ideas!\n\nPromotion tools: http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/webhosting/promote/ \nSearch engine overview: http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/sbiz/searchengine/\n\nGood luck!\n\nJen\nYahoo! Web Hosting team
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I can help you there.\n\nKeep your website colorful -- Easy on the eyes.\n\nLayout your content to it's convenient to the visitor\n\nMake sure any page can be visited from the main page of the site within 3 clicks.  Remember to always consider the 3-click rule\n\nMake sure your site takes no longer than 10 seconds to load.  Odds are if you have a page that takes any longer to load, the visitor will go off and look somewhere else.\n\nHave unique content\n\nKeep your website organized\n\nMake sure to have your website <title> on your pages
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in HTML or just using a package like Frontpage?\n\nif you want the HTML code, read this:\nhttp://www.htmlgoodies.com/primers/html/article.php/3478171\n\nif you want to know how to do it in frontpage, read this:\nhttp://webdesign.about.com/cs/frontpage/ht/htfphyperlink.htm\n(you can use the same steps do to it in other packages\nlike dreamweaver too)\n\nhope this helps\n\nmahurshi akilla
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Word of mouth is your best bet. Also, you can find in yahoo and google and such a way to put your site into their search engine. This takes some time because they send these page crawlers through your site to a) check if it is legal and b) look for key words that will cause your site to load when someone is searching for something.
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carefully  -- what are you using to update it.\n"\nhome page\nYour home page is the main page of your web site, the page your site visitors will see when they go to your web address or domain, such as http://www.geocities.com/widgetdesigns or http://www.widgetdesigns.com. The file that generates this default web page (often called the index page) when you create your site with GeoCities is called "index.html." A site visitor can see your home page when he enters either your site's web address (http://www.widgetdesigns.com) or your web address plus /index.html (http://www.widgetdesigns.com/index.html) in the address bar of his web browser. \n\n\nWhen you build your own web site or page using a Yahoo! tool, your home page will be named "index.html" automatically. Be sure you do not change the name of this file, or your new home page will not display at your domain. If you create your home page using a third-party tool, be sure to name your main page "index.html." Learn more.\n"
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To submit your site to Yahoo search:\nhttp://search.yahoo.com/info/submit.html\n\nand for google:\nhttp://www.google.com/intl/en/submit_content.html
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Get a graphic designer to design the page. It looks a little to much like a homepage right now.\n\nOne of your biggest tools will probably be the search engines. Get your developers to lose the frames. They really dont help with your search engine rankings / placement. The same seperated menu / content style can be achieved without frames.\n\nOverall, throw a little money at it and get it a little more professional looking. Your biggest move right now is to get a good design company onto it.
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Do a simple web search.
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If you're looking for a totally free site, check out yahoo, geocities, angelfire, or my space. If you are looking for something a little more polished, there are lots of great tools out there that are helpful, including sites that offer templates and help you get started. I have been impressed with the tools and service of GoDaddy (www.godaddy.com). If you'd like to learn more about the process, consider buying this book, which outlines the process, step-by-step: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0764507206/103-8389304-7234204?v=glance&n=283155\n\nHere's some tips from http://website-design.mcdar.net/:\n\nSo you want to build a website here I will explain some simple but also key aspects that are commonly taken in to consideration when a website developer creates a website.\n\n1) Website Design - The website design must be neat meaning that everything looks like where it is meant to be (nothing out of place or out of proportion). Also your sites design is related to the topic of your website e.g. your site is about flowers then your design must have flowers.\n\n2) Site Navigation - Visitors must be able to get where they want to go without going through a maze a good way of putting it if you can get there in 3 clicks it should be fine. Also it helps when search engine spiders go through your site since it makes it easy for the spiders to index the site.\n\n3) Domain Name - Domain name is important since it is one of the first thing that your visitors will see. Your domain should relate to your site topic or business name. Length of the domain usually 6-8 characters is a good length and easy for visitors to type.\n\n4) Scroll Bars - don't make your website pages too long so your visitors have to scroll for hours it is also a good option to just create another page and don't make people scroll side to side.\n5) Returning Visitors - make your visitors return to your site by adding one or all to your site:\n\n- Email Newsletter (Ezine)\n- Community Forums\n- Online Tools\n- Online Games\n- Useful Content\n- Competitions and Prizes\n- and so on\n\n5) Website Logo - Make your logo unique and brandable so that people will remember your logo and then will remember your site and products.\n\nThese are some simple points that you may take into consideration when you build your website if you need some further assistance have a look at your competitors website and see what they have done. Remember what you put in is what you get out of your website and on that note GOOD LUCK and enjoy the whole process of building your very own virtual property.\n\n\nAll that said, if you'd like something simple and quick, here's the company that made my website, and they charged me less than $300. I knew nothing about doing it, but it came out great and they guided me every step of the way: www.wordtechs.com.\n\n\nGood luck with your new venture!\n~Tia~
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I am afraid that your two part question has an easy answer and a hard one.\n\nIn order to set up a web page you need three things:\n\n- HTML coding to determine what information is on your webpage and what it looks like.\n- A "Web Host" to take those files and place them on a "web server" that is accessable to the internet.\n- A URL to tell the world how to get to your newly set up server.\n\nThe HTML coding piece can be done many different ways.  You can choose to purchase or download a free editing application that will let you design your own page from scratch or from some pre-designed templates that come with the software.  Some of the more popular examples of these programs are Microsoft FrontPage and Macromedia (now Adobe) Dreamweaver.  Using these tools does take some learning curve, but as a rule they are not difficult to master.\n\nAn alternative to using software is to utilize a service like Yahoo or NetFirms who offer "Fill in the blank" web design.  These providers allow you to pick a look and feel and simply fill in the boxes as to what information you want to provide.  Often the come bundled with a hosting package and URL which we are about to discuss.\n\nThe second step is to select a webhost.  A Google or Yahoo search on web host will yield hundred of results.  It is best to look for a provider that has been around for some time, has a recognizable brand name and easy access to quality customer support.  A web host will typically charge you a monthly fee ranging anywhere from $8-$800 dollars a month for your site based on complexity and number of visitors (bandwidth) you use up.\n\nFinally you need to obtain a URL (Uniform Resource Locator).  A URL is your address on the internet and tells people how to find you.  Typcially you can purchase a custom URL for use (ie - Mywonderfullwebsite.com) or you can use a longer name with your hosting provider (ie - www.webhostingcompany.com/mywonderfullwebsite).  If you want people to visit your site you should try to pick a URL that is short and easy to remember.\n\nMany web providers bundle all the above items into a single package and remove the complexity from the process for you.\n\nFinally you ask how to get people to look at it ?  That comes down to marketing.  Get the word out by contact webmasters of simmilar sites and asking them to link to your site, visit the major search engines and find the "submit" link where you can enter in your new URL for their review, or start reading up on any of the many many books / websites dedicated to search engines and internet marketing.\n\nGood Luck !
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wow...believe me is not easy and it all depends on your budget.\nThe first listing on all the major search engines are usually sponsor ads or CPC (colst per click) and they can get very expensive.\nAnother way to get you web site withing the first page on search engines is to have good keywords placed on your page. Not just in your meta tags but in other area also!\nI use a program called web position gold and it help alot during the creation of my site..which isnow listed Number 5 under yahoo for specific key words.
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The easiest way is to use the Google Coop program where you can create sites that display Google search results. You can even configure the results so you can have pre-searched items.\n\nFor example, if your site focuses on small business, you can have keywords on business plan, entrepreneurship, financing, etc. and clicking on these terms can show you the Google search results for these terms\n\nGo to Google Coop program http://www.google.com/coop/ -- it's a fantastic new way of using Google search results on your site.\n\nThe site you showed in your example is using scraper software to put together links. Some sites are totally worthless as they simply show scraper links, but the site you gave at least has some content. Here are some scraper software \nhttp://www.freedownloadscenter.com/Best/spiders-scraper.html
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If you use dreamweaver, or frontpage to design your site, you have to create a table inside your page, and then click inside the coding section of the design tool, insert the code inside here instead of like text directly into the table.\nPlease post more info on what you are using to design your site!!!\nPersonally I use adbrite, and you can see an example of this on my sites\nChocokettle.com has it down the sides. Whilst phx has it inside the forum.
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My best bet is that not everone put in the same search criteria... small differences can make quite a large impact on search results...\n\nWell there could be spyware on your comp that makes it so your more targeted to advertising websites
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My dear friend, search engine hits don't come overnight. It takes a lot of time for a website to feature on great seach engines like Yahoo and Google. I own a website that I created at about the end of January this year, and only last week I found it listed at number 29 only after all my keywords have been searched for at once! You have to be patient!\n\nWhen search engines build their powerful databases, they perform what is called indexing. This is done by special software called "bots". They start at the most popular sites on the net, and then follow every possible link on those pages, then all the next possible links, etc. They spider almost the whole web like this.\n\nFor those reasons, Yahoo might not know about you if you don't have a listed website that is linking to you. I would suggest you go and surf for other websites of your kind and add your page to their list of links. (Search engines also judge the popularity of your site by how many other sites are linking to you.)\n\nWhile you are waiting, there are some things you can do to make your website feature quicker. I don't know how familiar you are with HTML meta tags and the search-engine friendliness of your page, but I'll explain it anyway.\n\nMeta tags is ordinary HTML tags that you place inside your website code. They serve the primary purpose of giving information about your website. Some of them give the keywords that you would like your site to be searched for, others provide a short description of your site which will be shown on your listing if you feature on Yahoo. There are countless other meta tags which I have yet to explore, but they make your site a great deal more search-engine friendly.\n\nI have some really good software that helps me make my site more search-engine friendly. It is easy-to-use and completely virus-free (trust me). Best of all, it is free! It contains a complete explanation of meta tags, and also provides tips on selecting the right keywords for your page. It also has a feature that can check your pages for any errors or other things that would make search engines not like you. You can obtain it at http://www.webceo.com/\n\nHope my advice helped...
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there is a meta html tag to describe your page.\n\nthere are entire forums on improving your rankings on search engines.\n\non google you can do a search for a specific site     \napples site:myname.com\n\nand see if show any results.\n\nhttp://www.measuring-up.com/seo-tutorial/seo-tutorial.html\nsearch under seo search engine optimization for much, much more info.