How can I get my bussiness to come up on search?

[Jennifer G]

Unfortunately, there are no shortcuts to high, long-term search engine rankings. Persistent SEO best practices are the way to get there.

In a nutshell:

1. Add lots of well-written content that includes keyphrases that your prospects are typing into search engines.
2. Submit new content to bookmarking websites like Digg, Reddit, StumbleUpon, Mixx, etc.
3. Make sure that all important pages on your site have customized, well-written, keyphrase-rich meta data.
4. Obtain incoming links from external websites (lots of ways to do this).
5. Launch a Twitter profile and follow people who are interested in your products / services (based on keyphrases in their profile.)
6. Promote your site on all your social networking sites (MySpace, Facebook, etc.)
7. Make sure to include a site map for visitors
8. Upload an XHTML sitemap to major search engines
9. Get a free Google Analytics account so you can check your site statistics.

Good Luck!