• How do I drive traffic to my website?
  • Do a search on Google. There are thousands of sites that have information about how to drive traffic to your site. Some are better than others, and some are completely useless. All of the major search engines allow you to register your site with them. Try typing in a phrase like 'register my website'.
  
  
• How do I ensure that search engines find my website?
  • When your website is first set up, it is deliberately "hidden" from search engines. This gives you a chance to get your website looking the way you want it to before Google starts routing traffic your way. Once you are happy with your site, then go to the Admin Menu, and select Preferences. You will see there a few different options which are critical to your site being picked up by search engines.
    
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Do a search on Google. There are thousands of sites that have information about how to drive traffic to your site. Some are better than others, and some are completely useless. All of the major search engines allow you to register your site with them. Try typing in a phrase like 'register my website'.

1. Describe your website.
2. Enter keywords for your site.
3. Select a category for your website, other than the default, which is 'do not display'.