Lets face it...the best method of exposure for your website is to put your domain name on every little piece of paper that goes out your door: business cards, invoices, memos, etc.  That is the only way for someone to know the exact name of your website.

The only other way that a visitor can find you on the internet is through search engines. Google, Yahoo! and MSN are the most popular search engines out there today, but did you know that there are over 15,000 search engines around the world? Did you also know that there are more than 100 million websites in the world and more than 20 billion web pages that can be searched using Yahoo!?

So how do you get noticed? If you find it valuable that your website shows at the top of search engines, then you must budget for search engine optimization, or SEO. This is not a quick and dirty fix either. Just like your credit rating, search engine ranking takes time and does not happen overnight. It is also not as simple as submitting your website to a search engine or adding a few metatags to your pages.

You have options:

1. Buy a sponsored link from any of the search engines for a few hundred dollars per year.
2. Research SEO and take a few steps to help your page ranking.
3. Hire a firm to professionally monitor your page ranking and optimize your site.

There is plenty of free information about SEO on the Internet, but should you find this process a little frightening, Computer Net Solutions is here to help get your website noticed.