> > I have yet to find a search engine that can locate my blog, but I'm willing to wait a while on that.
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> The process will be considerably faster if you submit your site to the search engines manually, rather than waiting for them to pick it up automatically.
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> For Google, visit the link below, fill out the very brief form, and hit the "Add URL" button. Note that it may *still* be quite a while before your site shows up in Google, but at least this way they know about it.
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> Most other search engines have a similar way of submitting your site to them. Sometimes the URL submission page is harder to find than at others. Most of them are free, but I notice that Dogpile's submission page costs a bit for a guaranteed listing. Not worth it.

Thanks for the info, Sam. After I posted that, I found that when you search for blogs, you can add blog to a keyword and they can find it quicker. It worked. I am thankful that they don't follow the phone book rule where you have to pay them *not* to list it.
Howard