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<div align=justify>Many people are looking for something online. When they are doing so, they go to a '''search engine''' first. Unless of course they know the exact site they want to go to and type the needed domain name into the browser address bar.

'''To have successful''' Internet business''' or simply share your site with others, '''you want Internet users''' that don't know about it yet '''to be able to find you'''. '''The best way''' to make sure that they will find you '''is to add the site to  search engines'''. If the search engines aren't aware of your site, or even if they do know about it but its not well optimized for SE, then you miss a lot of potential traffic.


'''What is a search engine exactly?'''

It is is any software '''program that searches for sites based on the key words''' entered by a user looking for something on the net. They use so-called '''''spiders''''' or '''''robots''''' to crawl through web space from link to link on a site. Once the spiders get to a web site, they typically index most of the words on the publicly available pages.


'''How to add a site to search engines?'''

'''All search engines have detailed instruction on how to add a site to the search engine'''. For example, ''http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=34397'' will help you to add site to Google search.

Also you can use '''meta tags''' and '''key words''' to optimize your site for search engines. 

'''What is a meta tag?'''

 It is the information inserted into the '''head''' area of your web page. It looks like this:

<META name="something" content="something else"></div>

'''What is a keyword?'''

This is a special key that '''relates you site to a search engines'''. Keywords can be added with the help of meta tags. 

E.g. <META name="keywords" content="a, list, of, keywords"> 
'''The choice of meta tags and keywords is different for each separate site'''.
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