How do I get the subject of my website come up 1st in the search listings like all others rather than the URL?
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You need to put the description in your meta tags. Whoever designed your website should have done that- speak to them about it. If you yourself did it, make sure the first thing in your meta tags is a website description. Also, when you submit your website to website engines, just make sure when they ask about the website, that you put your description in aswell as your web address.\n\nAlso, dont use here to advertise your site ;)
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type it in a search engine
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Google automatically spiders the web for sites, so you don't have to bother with that one, though it may take a week or two.  Maybe even a month depending on how fast Google finds it.  There are scads of search engines that do it that way.\n\nYou'll need to submit your site to Yahoo: http://search.yahoo.com/info/submit.html
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Submit your site to search engines:\nhttp://www.jimmyr.com/webmasters.php\n\nfind people to link\nhttp://www.jimmyr.com/howtoincreasehits.php
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Most the big search engines have a submit your site option and many hosting providers offer a tool to submit your site to multiple engines. In order to get a good position near the beginning requires a lot of good content emphasizing your chosen keywords and links from other sites that have similar content.
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Not really but there's something close...\nGoogle Directory  @ http://www.google.com/dirhp?hl=en\n\nIt divides each website in its database by subject and when you drill down to the topic you want,  it will list the websites in alphabetical order.\n\nHope this helps
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The reason is quite simple.  It is because you do not have any sites linking to you. Just obtain a few inbound links and the search engine spiders will follow them to your site and index it. A good way to get the first few inbound links is from directories http://www.seo-blog.com/directory-links.php
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It sounds like maybe your site is new. You would want to have lots of significant content on the site so that the web "spiders" can find your site and index its significance. Once that's done, your browser likely will work in the manner you want it to. That's a function of the browser working together with your preferred search engine.
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Actually what I make out of your question, what you are talking about is improving the page rank of the web page so that it comes up higher in the google search.. if that is the question then here is the explanation: let us assume that 10 different websites have link to your kitten website then the google crawler takes it as 10 votes and depending upon the importance and popularity and content of those 10 websites, the page rank of your web page would be decided automatically.. \n\none way of doing that was through blogs but google has started overlooking blogs sites.. one famous example is of "Miserable Failure" which leads you to the biography of george bush...
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You need to look for sites that are of similar subject to your site, and link from them.\n\nA lot of search engines rate you by links coming in.  They will also rate you on the quality of those sites.
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Maybe never. There are many factors involved in getting your site to come up on search engines. You need to research meta tags, keywords, the placement of links on your site, just to name a few. The fastest way is to pay the search engines to put your site in sponsored links, you can also use pay-per-click to get your site closer to the top. Just submitting your site has very little impact on search results.
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type in azlyrics on yahoo search and go 2 the 1st item that comes up
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No, you are not automatically in the yahoo engine. Even though sites get added from web trawls, this can take a while.\n\nYahoo has been notorious in the past for taking anything between 6 and 12 months to actually list a site and that has been submitting to the engine through their own signup.\n\nType "site:yoururl.com" in the yahoo engine.\n\nThis will return results that have anything to do with that url.
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It depends allot who your Registrar is.The domain i have through Register.com and has a option called advanced URL forwarding that lets me type in the domain or sub-domain names and then point it to any URL seamlessly so everything looks in-house
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there is no set time, all major search engines are constantly combing the net for updated sites, it can take from hours to days.  Best practice is to use search tags that are unique to you (if possible) try not to put your tags within frames in the main page (search engines like plain html on the main page) and if you are desperate for listings consider paying fro them, for a business this could be worthwhile (but remember only certain key words can be listed).  Hope this helps :)
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Include a robots.txt file on your site.\nGo here for further instructions:\nhttp://www.robotstxt.org/wc/exclusion-admin.html\n\nYou could also include the following on the top of specific pages that you don't want indexed:\n<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW">\nonly a few search bots use this so far.
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I presume you have your website on Geocities. Well anyway search engines take time to INDEX your site, i.e the list your site in their database to put them on the search results. Be patient, and you ll be seeing your site in the search results, but in the first page will require some serious time and money to optimize your site for search engines. They call this Search Engine Optimization ( SEO ).\n\nAnd regarding Adwords, you site will not be listed in natural results, rather it will be under "Sponsored Results". Its position depends on the value of your bid.\n\nMy 2 cents..