Janice asked, re: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~tomerbusby/GenealogyPages/ Busby_Historical_Pages.html (Note broken link due to word wrap) "I would like for search engines to find these pages so I can share the photos and the people's names relating to this. However, when I type in keywords that are unique to my page, it never appears in the search. How do I get my keywords into the source or, how do I get search engines to find my pages so I can share them?" There are several issues with search engines indexing your pages and delivering them as hits in searches. Here are a few: 1. Timing -- SE bots "spider" the Web, page by page, to find content and don't get through the whole Web every day. It may take a few weeks or months for your pages to show up in searches. 2. Structure of the page -- SEs rely on the on heading tags (h1, h2, etc. -- think "outline") for indexing page content. If these tags are absent (as with yours), your page is ignored by the search engines. 3. Operating system -- If, as Lorrie's message suggested, your site isn't Linux-friendly, the bots may skip it because they're Linux critters. 4. Text vs. graphics -- Graphics indexing isn't yet as advanced as that for text. 5. "Keywords" -- Most SEs have gone away from using keywords in the doc head to assess and index content. (They got burned too often.) 6. Index/follow -- Meta statements in pages can tell a bot whether to index a page or not and whether to follow links on the page or not. If you've used noindex or nofollow, well-behaved bots will obey. So, these suggestions: -- Look up the use of heading tags and put them on your pages appropriately. -- Make your site Linux-friendly. It's the OS for 99.9% of Web servers. -rt_/)