We have compiled a list of the most common Meta Tags, below:

• Meta tags for your "title", "description", and "keywords". 
  
  <meta NAME="description" CONTENT=" your description here ">
  

• A Title (with a high percentage of your site's keywords, and a title that starts with an "A" is best because some search engines sort alphabetically).

• A Description (with a high percentage of your site's keywords)

• Keywords (to see someone's keywords, while viewing a web site, click "view" "source". Then you can see what keywords they are using (who they are targeting). For fun, go to your competitors web sites, and click "view ", "source" (Netscape calls it "page source".) You will be looking for something that says "Meta keywords".

• After the site is designed, it needs to be "submitted" to the top search engines (Yahoo, Excite, Lycos, Altavista, HotBot...there are hundreds of them.) The majority of them charge NOTHING for you to submit a site to them.  The best place to begin submitting your site is Yahoo.com.  After you submit your web site there, search for "search engines" and begins submitting your site at other search engines.

After you have inserted Meta Tags on your site, you could start submitting your website to the top search engines. A list of those engines are below.

• Submit to Altavista here
  

It places a lot of emphasis on link popularity as a primary way to rank web sites. Google also provides some results to Yahoo and Netscape Search. Submit only your homepage URL. It will automatically index the entire site.

• Submit to Google here
  

• Submit to Excite here
  

Lycos' main listings come from the Open Directory project, and then secondary results come from either Direct Hit or Lycos' own spider. Your best bet is to get indexed in the Open Directory project.

• Submit to Lycos here
  

Direct Hit works with other search engines to refine their results. This is done by monitoring what users click on from the result displayed.  Sites that get clicked on more than others rise higher in Direct Hit's rankings.

• Submit to Direct Hit here
  

You will need to enter your URL, e-mail, site name and site description to submit your site.

• Submit to MSN here
  

Enter your URL, category and e-mail address to submit your site. The Norwegian company behind FAST Search also powers some of the results that appear at Lycos

• Submit to Fast - All the web here