There are many reasons your site may not appear in search results: The search engines haven't found you yet; they're having a hard time understanding your content; or you simply have too many competitors, for example.

The Web is a busy place, and there are a lot of web sites competing for attention from the same search engines. Each search engine has its own system of locating, reviewing, and ranking web sites, and your success in outdoing your competition — indeed, appearing in search results at all — depends a bit on luck, but we can help you improve your chances of being listed.

Important: Please note that while Yahoo! can help you put your best foot forward to search engines, we cannot guarantee your site's placement in search results — or that it will be listed (indexed) at all.

To help you get noticed, we'll submit your site to the biggest search engines for consideration in their search engine results. If you're using Site Solution, we'll submit for you automatically when you publish. If you're using another site building tool, you can submit your own site with just one click. Learn how to submit your site.

If you build your site with our Site Solution tool, we'll set up meta tags and a Sitemap for your site automatically as soon as you publish. Both tools can help search engines better understand your site content. Learn more about promoting your site with Site Solution.

If you're not using Site Solution, you can still add meta tags to your site! Advanced users may also want to create their own Sitemap.

As a Small Business customer, you can take advantage of special offers and discounts on a variety of promotional tools that may help you increase traffic to your site. Learn more about these promotional tools, or just visit the Promote tab of your Web Hosting Control Panel for more information.