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Get Listed with Major Search Engines
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A list of major search engines and directories and where they get their results:
Google results shown by
Google
AOL Search
Netscape
Hotbot
Yahoo results shown by
Yahoo
Lycos
MSN
All The Web
Alta Vista
HotBot
Teoma results shown by
Teoma
Ask Jeeves
Hotbot
Others
Looksmart
Open Directory
Gigablast
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Do Pay Per Click Advertising
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Google AdWords
Overture
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Link Building Campaign
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What else?
A list of major search engines and directories and where they get their results
Pretty up to date - from April of this year
Major Search Engines and Results Providers [webmasterworld.com]
What else?
This is just a brief check-list of points to look at, deliberately very sketchy to keep it as brief and simple as possible so it wouldn't be overwhelming
Google Optimization Basics - Handy Quick List [webmasterworld.com]
There are many more, including a few dynamite posts in the Supporters forum. And for PPC (Overture & Adwords), really - going through those individual forums one at a time and then asking specific questions you have would be a big help.
Also go through the library here in this forum and the New to Web Development forum; there's a lot to be found, but it does take some hunting for specific answers.
I'm on a new computer so I don't have all the necessary bookmarks, but hopefully some others will come along and post links for you to some of the other threads that get into details.