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how to advertise new website to internet user?

Hi,
   I have a new website.  How do I advertise this so that when user type in a string in google or
yahoo, it will lead to my website?

thanks in advance
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I'd also look for similar or compatible businesses so that they can cross link to your site.  Why not take advantage of traffic they already have?
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thanks great answer.
Do I have to pay yahoo to get my business or website in the yahoo yellow pages?
Don't assume SE listing automatically means thousands of visitors. Most people have
grand illusions about getting listed. Listing does help bring traffic if your high enough up
in the search phrase listing but what makes a site popular is the same thing that makes
a restaurant popular in real life...it's a place people want to return to time and time again.

I find you can get quite a bit of traffic from having links within A.O.L.'s infrastructure. Basically
you want to submit your site into every nook and cranny you can find on the Web.

Good luck, or should I say Google luck ;)
>>Do I have to pay yahoo to get my business or
website in the yahoo yellow pages?<<

I thought I posted to that...anyway,

yes you have to pay for commerce site listings in Yahoo. Don't forget Yahoo
only guarantees to accept your money and not your site. Yahoo is a
"directory" and not a typical SE. Humans manipulate the site listings in
Yahoo and they have strict guidelines as to what they want for site structure
in Web pages and sites. Yahoo wants $300.00 to look at your site if it's
in the general category and $600.00 if it's an adult orientated site.

When you give Yahoo money they agree to "look" at your site for possible
inclusion in their listings. Yahoo pays Google for the ability to link to Google
results so if your in Google you'll show up in Yahoo. So with that it's probably
best to get into Google first and then check to see if your listing shows up
in Yahoo.

Some Yahoo prices and rules
http://docs.yahoo.com/info/suggest/busexpress.html
http://docs.yahoo.com/info/suggest
http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/adcentral/productsubmit/productsubmit-02.html
If you submit your site to DMOZ http://dmoz.org/add.html your site will end up in Google, Yahoo, AOL, MSN, etc.

All of the main search engines make use of DMOZ.

DO NOT pay Yahoo to list your site... because Google is now one of the most popular search engines, and.. Yahoo & Google are basically the same exact thing. (Noticed the *Powered by Google* logos?)

I submitted my site to Google, a few weeks later I had traffic coming from Google, AltaVista, etc.

A tip you must know, META TAGS. Google doesn't use them, but A LOT of search engines do.

If you don't have this already, paste it to the top of all of the pages you want shown in search engines.

<html><head>
<title>Your site title</title>
<meta HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<meta HTTP-EQUIV="Cache-Control" content="no-cache">
<meta HTTP-EQUIV="Expires" content="0">
<meta NAME="Description" content="Describe your site">
<meta HTTP-EQUIV="content-language" content="EN">
<meta NAME="Title" content="Title of your site">
<meta NAME="Rating" content="General">
<meta NAME="Robots" content="index,follow">

<meta NAME="Abstract" content="Short description of your site.">
<meta NAME="Author" content="Webmasters name or initials">
<meta NAME="Keywords" content="keywords, to, find, your, site">
<meta NAME="Copyright" content="Who your site is copyrighted by">
<meta NAME="Designer" content="Webmasters name or initials">
<meta NAME="revisit-after" content="7">
<meta NAME="MSSmartTagsPreventParsing" content="TRUE">