How can my site be listed in search engines and directories like Google, Yahoo & MSN and do online marketing?
This is the most important thing of all! Just because you have a website does not mean any one is going to see it. You MUST market you site! There are literally millions of sites out on the web competing for top search engine and directory placement. They want your customers as well. In recent years placement on these sites has become a matter of money and optimization of your site; you pay to be listed and ranked in a verity of ways. Some directories will list non-profit or personal sites for free but businesses can be charged $100 to $300 annually just to be considered for listing and the listing rank is not guaranteed. You could be first or you could be number 1001 in a list thousands of web sites long. Eventually, four to six months after your site is launched, it will start to show up in so search engines such as WebCrawler and Google as these sites are continually and automatically searching (spidering) the Web for new pages and categorizing them according to relative keywords pl