Search engines offer a
wealth of traffic, in fact my experience has been that nearly half of my site traffic will
come from free listings in search engines. Several things to note about search
engines:
The top search engines make up nearly 90% of all search engine traffic. Concentrate on
theses top sites, they will yield the most hits for your effort.
Search engines like Alta Vista, Lycos, Hot Bot, Web Crawler and Yahoo (not a search
engine but a directory, never the less it works in much the same manner) have millions and
million of sites listed. It is important to list each and every page in your site and
design each page to rank highly when certain key word searches are performed. This takes
time and energy as well as an idea of how search engines work before you begin to
create your web site pages.
Make Sure You Site Is Listed in These Search Engines!
There are several different avenues to learn about how search engines work and operate.
I suggest downloading Web Position (free trail version) which is an excellent piece of
software as well as great learning tool.