One of the best ways of publicising your web, particularly if it focusses on a specific topic is to register the web with one or more of the many web search engines out there. Webcrawlers receive URLs and explore the pages connected with the URL. They then construct a keyword index that can be searched at a later date. There are quite a few search engines now and it would be quite tedious to register a URL with them all. Thankfully, there are now free services that will make it easy to register a single URL with many different search engines at the same time. Here are some such services:
If you've never used a search engine before, try AltaVista.
Before submitting your web to a webcrawler, it's a good idea
to make a long list of keywords that people might use to find you.
Once you've done this, find all their synonym's too! The final list
can then be added as fineprint to your home page. An alternative
is to sprinkle them throughout your web. However, it's probably
best to ensure that all the keywords appear in one page, as users
often conduct searches that AND the keywords together and the two
or more such keywords must appear in the same page to be found.
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