Search Engines
Misc Tips: Web Site Promotion Do's and Don'ts
These are some Do's and Don'ts you should consider when promoting your site through search engines.
  

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Search Engine Results: Who Powers Who?
Here's a table illustrating the various alliances between various search engines and directories.
  

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Submitting Via Paid Listings: Overture FindWhat & Google
Every major search engine with significant traffic accepts paid listings. This unique form of search engine advertising means that you can be guaranteed to appear in the top results for the terms you are interested in within a day or less. Given this, paid listings are an option that should be explored by site owners who wish to quickly build visibility. They may also be a long-term advertising option for some.
  

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What Is A Bridge or Doorway Page?
Webmasters are sometimes told to submit "bridge" pages or "doorway" pages to search engines to improve their traffic. Doorway pages are created to do well for particular phrases. They are also known as portal pages, jump pages, gateway pages, entry pages and by other names.
  

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How Search Engines Rank Web Pages
Search for anything using your favorite crawler-based search engine. Nearly instantly, the search engine will sort through the millions of pages it knows about and present you with ones that match your topic. The matches will even be ranked, so that the most relevant ones come first.