There are two major ways to get your web site at the top of a search engine page:

1. The content and keywords on your web page, along with being linked from lots of relevant pages, cause your page to be the best site on the WWW for the keyword search entered by the computer user.
2. You pay for the top-most listing.

Below are some links which may help you in the search engine optimization.

Search Engine Submission Tips

• Intro To Search Engine Submission
• Your Search Engine Submission Budget
• Submitting To Directories: Yahoo & The Open Directory
• Submitting To Crawlers: Google, Yahoo, Ask/Teoma & Microsoft's MSN
• Submitting Via Paid Listings: Overture & Google AdWords

"Pay Per Click" Search Engine Advertising Tutorial

Buying Your Way In: Search Engine Advertising Chart

Here are the direct links we have located:

• Google Ad Words and Teoma
• InfoSpace
• MSN Search
• Yahoo Sponsored Search and AltaVista Overture®

Books:

• Search Engine Advertising : Buying Your Way to the Top to Increase Sales (Voices That Matter) (Paperback)