Search Engines continued

google
dogpile
excite

Luckily, 95% of all web searches go through only 8 major search engines most of which are also fed by the Open Directories Project dmoz.org

(which 8? The top six are listed on one of the web sites recommended below!) but even six or eight becomes a chore when you are responsible for more than one website... so utilities such as META Maker (Mac only) were created.

META Maker will generate HTML META tags for you and submit your site to these 43 popular search engines: I have added some links to aid manual updates...

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META Maker also allows you to batch add META Tags to a folder of HTML files. You can purchase META Maker online at http://www.squirrelsw.com

http://www.searchenginewatch.com
How to improve your ranking in search results - sign up to the newsletters and investigate this excellent source of information.

http://www.pandia.com/searchworld/detective.html
A rich page devoted to search engines

http://www.linkingmatters.com
LinkingMatters.com is a 33-page report and web site that aims to help webmasters understand the importance of link popularity and how it can affect their search engine rankings. Particularly relevent to Google and other search engines which use linking as a measure for ranking.

http://www.webmaster-resources.com/freetools.shtml
Meta tag generator, reports and submision to more than 12 major search engines

http://www.bygpub.com/webpromotion
More helpful information

http://www.webdeveloper.com/html/html_metatag_res.html
Recommended by Lynda Weinman in her excellent DW Hands on Training book as is

http://vancouver-webpages.com/META/mk-metas.html

http://free.submit-it.com
Want the professionals to handle submission to the search engines?
Various levels of service depending on cost.

keywords and descriptions