[dgd1788]

I have a question,

How do you set a website up with a search engine?? What I mean is what code do you use???

Meta tags??

Regular HTML??

Boolean variables???

Or what???

[fitzjj]

Do you mean how do you register your website with a search engine?

Most search engines have bots that trawl the web following links from other pages, your best bet is to get your URL onto as many other web pages as possible so that it can be found - putting it in your sig on this site would probably help since the googlebot trawls here.

Some search engines you can request to have your website added to their database by filling out a form on their website.

Meta tags are used to give info on your webpage, quite how much search engines actually use them varies, but it wont hurt to make good use of them.

Regular HTML, well the text that makes up the page is what is used most since search engines perform searches on the text within a page, so if you have a page about computers but dont mention the word computer it isn't going to returned at all in a search for computers. You cant find keywords that dont exist in a page.

Boolean variables!!!!! this makes me think that you perhaps want to write your own search engine since i dont see where a boolean variable would fit in having your website added to a search engine. This would be a pretty big job, hence why most people, even big institutions like universities make use of existing tools. Google have a search that will search your website, or i use htdig which is pretty cool - you just run a tool that builds a database of your webpages and then include the code for the interface in the page you want the search to operate from.

[TheMajor]

It can take a few weeks up to a few months for your website to get indexed by Google.
It will eventually end up in Google automatically, but if you submit it on Google.com it can speed it up a bit. If you want to see if your website is included in Google you should search for something specific like a part of a sentence from your website.

Make sure to include proper meta tags with a few keywords and a short description.

The most important part is to get as many websites to link to your websites. Preferably websites with high page ranks. It is best for the link title to have a name that matches the most important keywords for your website.

You website should have some text on it. The most important keywords in your meta tags should be included in the content for good keyword relevancy.

[furtivefelon]

it doesn't matter if you submit your site to google.. If they can't find your site online, you simply won't get any rating at all (it's quite pathetic if google can't find your site within 2 weeks of launch.. you gotta get more sites to link to yours if that happens)... You'll just be another one of the sites that just is there..