My Webspace and Search Engines

[AZF]

Hi,

Anybody have any insight into how to get your webpages on mysite.verizon.net to show up in search engines like Google?

Thanks!

AZF

[Bob_Robertson]

Here is a link for the PWS FAQ
http://www2.verizon.net/myaccount/manage/sitebuilder/ftp_info.asp

Publicizing Your Web Pages

After your home page is posted, announce it to the Internet community. Having your home page listed with the indexes and search engines is usually free, and requires only a few minutes for each site.

An important consideration before you advertise your site ... Is it really ready?
Users who are drawn to a new Web site by an announcement don't expect to see "under construction" signs or pages that don't load properly - and they can be rather rude if they do. To be a good e-citizen and avoid flame mail, make sure that the site is 100% ready, in complete working order with every "i" dotted and every "t" crossed, before you announce it.

If everything checks out, make a list of important information about your site - the URL and title, a short paragraph to describe it, keywords by which users should be able to find it, and so on - and proceed to the following sites:

• AltaVista - One of the oldest and largest search engines on the Internet.
• Lycos® - A popular search engine that sends a "spider" to your site.
• WebCrawlerTM - A remarkably large volume of pages cataloged by a remarkably fast search engine.
• Yahoo!® - Provides one of the Internet's largest catalogs of personal home pages under its Entertainment/People section.

NOTE: There are other places to advertise your Web site - the locations above welcome personal home page listings, some of the others do not. As a matter of netiquette, spend some time investigating a service, making sure your site is appropriate to its listings and categories, before submitting your URL for their list.

[AZF]

Thanks, Rob...quite informative and helpful.

Alan