After you have made up your mind in choosing different keywords for your site, the next step you are going to do is increase the publicity of your sites, that is being listed or indexed by some major search engines and directories.
Basically, there are a few way to do so. An easy going way is to submit your site to some well known directory, like Yahoo!. What is a driectory? Yahoo! is a searchable directory of web pages that are reviewed, selected and categorized by humans, obviously, Yahoo! is moving from directory to a real search engine. Then What is a search engine? A search engine is just a robot of crawlling web page, rather than reviewed, selected and categorized by humans only, surely i am sure that Google has some human efforts behind it.
No matter what they are, being listed is what you need for the first spot of light!
If you choose some big directory web sites, like Yahoo!, you can pay them to get a "yes/no" answer whether your site is indexed or not. Another good source for being indexed is the Open Directory Project (ODP). Getting in ODP, i would like to say it is a great success of your beginning of your web site.
Or you can try to use Google Sitemap, it is an easy way for you to submit all your URLs to the Google index and get detailed reports about the visibility of your pages on Google. Click here for more information about Google Sitemap.
Also here are some other well known directories and search engine, that you may be interested in
Altavista
A9
AOL
Clusty
Gigablast
Google
Lycos
MSN
Teoma
Wisenut
Yahoo!
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