Getting Listed on AltaVista

[scberg]

First of all I would like to wish you all a Happy New Year. A colleague referred me to this site and I am very interested in learning some good search engine listing tactics. I currently own a web design firm and personally do ASP programming, database integration, etc. None of my pages are optimized for search engines. I was wondering what is the best thing I can do to get my page listed on a search engine such as AltaVista. I would like to add an Internet Marketing department to my company, but first I need to know what I'm doing. Any help would be appreciated. Thank you so much.
Regards,

Shawn Berg

[BoneHeadicus]

Greetings fellow Bay area domain dweller.

I asked the same question about av a few days ago...seems av is in flux. No one is sure right yet but it appears they are using Look$mart to some degree.

The big guys will have to step in and answer specifics...I just wanted to say hi.

[rencke]

>I was wondering what is the best thing I can do to get my page listed on a search engine such as AltaVista

Welcome to WebmasterWorld, Shawn.

Getting listed is not the problem. Getting ranked is and the answer is: read, read and then read some more - right here at WebmasterWorld and its sister site
[searchengineworld.com...] By the time you have read everything, you'll be a prominent expert fully entitled to charge top dollars for Internet marketing advice.

Here are a couple of good WebmasterWorld discussions for beginners:
[webmasterworld.com...]
[webmasterworld.com...]
and this thread, where BoneHeadicus got answers so good that I dropped a flag for my own use:
[webmasterworld.com...]

Btw: Noticed that you posted the identical question in the Google forum. FYI: it is not necessary to post more than once. The moderators here are very proactive, so question generally never go unanswered for more than 24 hours - weekdays anyway.

[scberg]

Thank you all so much for your prompt replies. I hope I can learn a lot from these message boards. I will definitely check out those discussions you have mentioned. Thank you all once again.

Shawn

BTW - How did you know I was from the Bay Area?

[BoneHeadicus]

Look here for some stuff that will make your site go the distance [webmasterworld.com...]

>BTW - How did you know I was from the Bay Area?

The little owner profile button on the side of your post.
Shalom

[Marcia]

Shawn, here's my favorite article - the step by step tutorial for building the killer page:

[searchengineworld.com...]

[rencke]

Seems like an interesting page, Marcia. But how does one read it for more than 0,5 seconds at a time?