Search Engines

By Lori Osterberg



When you’re in business, marketing is a daily, ever changing opportunity. No one thing will work indefinitely. Instead, you must focus your time consistently on many different things. Being online adds to that challenge.



Search engine marketing is one of the many things you can begin with. Many services exist to automatically submit your site – SnapMonkey.com offers such a service. But you can also go to individual search engines, and find out what other services they offer. Check out these search engines.



www.altavista.com

www.exactseek.com

www.google.com

www.lycos.com

www.northernlight.com

www.yahoo.com

www.ask.com

www.dmoz.com



Search engines also provide a wealth of information. For example, when you reach the www.altavista.com home page, in the search box type “link:yourURL.com”. This will show all of the sites on the Internet you are linked to. Or go to www.exactseek.com . Here you can type in an enhanced listing, and find out how you rank within your keywords.