At 02:36 PM 2/20/2003 -0800, you wrote:


>Question, to the "puter gurus".....do you have to do anything special
>to get your website to pop up on Google or a similar search engine? We
>already put in keywords and categories when we built the site, but so
>far it does not come up when I search under "Search and Rescue" "Jeep
>Posse" "Yavapai SAR" etc....

Most search engines have a means to submit a website to them.  Even with 
that it usually takes time before the bots get out to crawl the page and 
add them to the database.  There are companies that will be happy to take 
your money to do it, but there are a number of good tools out there that 
allow you to submit a site to multiple search engines for free.  Check out 
www.tucows.com and look around for search engine submission tools, you 
should find many.

After you get them submitted, you just have to wait, sometimes for a long time.


In liberty,

Scott

wood@myblueheaven.com
www.myblueheaven.com