Hello everybody, I hope some of you find it as useful as I did. Since putting this into effect about ten days ago I've had results which amazed a cynical old googler like me! Try searching for 'peakz' on yahoo or google and my audley music website and the blogs and podcasts associated with it come up near the top, and that's where we all want to be. Try this, it's free, and it's better than waiting months to get noticed, or worse still, paying some scammer to get you 'instant' results. There just ain't no free lunch, but this is a low-cost snack! You could pay a fortune for the boys who claim to 'get you on google in days' or 'raise your ranking in Yahoo' and all that stuff. The long and short of it is it costs you, hard moolah. However, if you take advantage of the Google and Yahoo 'personalise your space' features, just add your url or blog feed in the 'add content' sections. Guess whose pages they index first when they send out those busy little spiders? Why, their very own, of course! It won't guarantee a million visitors but it will mean your pages are there for the viewing. And this is how you do it:

When you go to the Google homepage you will see a link in the top right corner called Personalised Home. Click on that and it goes to a page with an invitation to Personalise your homepage. Don't have a Google Account? You'll be invited to create one. (You use you gmail settings to sign in if you have that service) When it's done, go to the personal page and you will be invited to 'add content' Put your personal web addresses here and your blogs and your rss feeds if you have them. With Yahoo, it's similar. When you go to their homepage you'll see a 'My Yahoo' link. Put some basics on the page to get it going and then use the add content as above.