HELP! New webpage - 1st time

I'm terribly new to this. How do I get my wepage address to work in the "search" box of a search engine?
I don't need advertising position, cause I got nothing to sell, I would just like people to be able to find me
without typing in my address into the "location" box of a search engine.

This is probably a dumb & dumber questions, but I have not seen the answer to it in my searching the web
the last two days.

Help? Please. Tom Braun Cedar City, Utah: wisdomdigest.net

Never a dumb question if you don't know the answer.

I am not quiet sure what you are asking here. Are you wanting to know how to get your site listed in the search engines?

Someone else may have a quickie answer for you but what you should probably do is find a good Webmaster Forum and get some search engine help.
I don't know if I should advertise any one particular forum here so I will just refer you to the ODP section for these and you can pick.
http://dmoz.org/Computers/Internet/Web_Design_and_Development/Authoring/Webmaster_Resources/Chats_and_Forums/

A good webmaster help forum always comes in handy anyway.

Good luck!
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Thank you Sonia. I'm going to check it out now.

But just to clarify my question:

1. I have new website.
2. I'm not on a search engine.
3. When I tell a friend of my website, and they try to find it by putting the name of it in the "search" area of yahoo, etc., yahoo responds with "so such site."
4. The only way to find me is to put the sites name in the "Location" area, the address area http// etc.
5. What do I have to do so people can find me through search engines.

I just thought there might be an easy way for people like me, with non-commercial sites, who do not need traffic from "searchers", to get found, without people having to type in my http// in the address bar.

Thanks again, TomB.

&gt;&gt;I just thought there might be an easy way for people like me, with non-commercial sites, who do not need traffic from "searchers", to get found, without people having to type in my http// in the address bar.&lt;&lt;

Sorry, but there's no easy way, at least none I know of. There are professionals who make their living with optimizing sites for and submitting them to search engines. Even if you don't care about page ranking and traffic you'll still have to submit your site.

Many search engines give you instructions on how to submit a site to their database, and you may want to have a look at the forums listed in the category mentioned by Sonia.

Good luck!
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&gt;&gt;I just thought there might be an easy way for people like me, with non-commercial sites, who do not need traffic from "searchers", to get found, without people having to type in my http// in the address bar.

You didn't think this one through. If there were an easy, QUICK way to do this, and there WEREN'T an easy way to detect commercial sites automatically (as there isn't) then the affiliate and doorway page creators would fill cram way full of content-free commercials before you could say "Viking song".

So, there will never be an easy QUICK way. The easy SLOW way is to submit the site to the proper ODP category. With THAT, we can help you.

I'm wondering if the question was actually requesting basic information like putting meta-tags into the heading of the webpage? This is one way that search engines will index what you have on your site. Use of Title, Keywords and Description tags will help some search engines to index your site. Webmasterworld is the best place to ask such questions and get advice (One piece of advice that you will get on Webmasterworld is to run your site through the HTML validator which will check that the HTML code that makes your site, is technically correct and well-formed).

Once you replace the very first line of your HTML file with: &lt;!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"&gt; then you are very close to having a valid page as you can see from the Validation Results . Writing valid code is not a requirement to being listed in any search engine, but having a web site that conforms to the standards will give your site the best possible chance of working in all makes and versions of web browsers.

These are the tags that you may wish to add to your files: &lt;META NAME="Keywords" CONTENT="Relevant Keywords People May Use To Find Your Site"&gt; &lt;META NAME="Description" CONTENT="A nice plain language description of your website."&gt; &lt;META NAME="Language" CONTENT="en"&gt; within the HEAD section.

Nemesis,

Start by reading this: http://dmoz.org/add.html

Aside from the advice on how to get your site to turn up for certain keywords (like your name), it seems to me that the first problem you have is getting your site FOUND by a search engine. Two things to do - request for your site to be added to ODP (see the link for adding in the previous post) and have friends post links to your site from their sites. Eventually, a search engine like Google will either find your site because it was included in the data dump from ODP or because it followed a link from a friend's page.

It may take a while (it took months for my homepage to be found and start appearing, but we didn't try to promote it), but eventually you'll have presence!