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Helping Search Pages Catalog Your Page

Most folks who publish a Web page want it found by everybody online who may have a remote interest in the page's topic. (If you intend to keep the Web page you're creating a big, fat secret, you can skip this part.)

Obviously, the key to exposing yourself is to ensure that the page shows up in the major (and minor) search pages, such as Yahoo! (www.yahoo.com), Excite (www.excite.com), and AltaVista (www.altavista.com). If your page is about duck diseases, you want to be sure that whenever anyone enters the search term “sick duck,” “duck illness,” or “shaggy beak,” a link to your page will appear high in the list of results.

In some cases, you must manually register your page with a search tool or use a Web ...