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        First, a little background on search engines. Many of the major searches use different methods of determining search rankings and where your website ranks among your competitors has to be addressed on several levels to place higher  rankings on each. I won't get into the specifics of each search engine (here), but I think at least a few people can figure things out easy enough for themselves (I've said elsewhere in this site ... "it's not rocket science").  There are many search engines but most people use only a few.  Among that list (in no specific order are):

          Google  - Most complex of all search engines which can be unfair to it's users. Based partly on algorithms and links, they are more likely to produce results you don't want,  configured by  their system, which is based a good deal on who you know rather than what you know.  They want you to pay and you probably will since they say they are #1.

          Yahoo - #1 visited website, still one of the top search engines.  Fair, but very profit minded.

          MSN - It's said they are the  #3 top search engine and always trying to do better. They are the fairest of the fair. 

          American On Line - powered by Google (see Google above)

          Clusty* (OK, so Clusty isn't one of the top search engines, but should be ... try it for yourself by going to www.clusty.com and when you see how it "clusters," you'll want to get their toolbar and make it your top choice for searches. Fell free to use Clusty to  perform the searches listed below.

        Searches are based on keywords, or the search words used by both the searcher and the crawling robots that search engines use to determine rankings. Thus, a searcher enters the words he seeks info on, and here's a few good examples.   These search rankings were as of 3/11/06.   Remember that search rankings change on a daily basis, so we might not be #1 everyday, but we should still be on the first page of results (still very good):

First, go to http://search.msn.com Then place the keywords  - townhouses boca raton -  in the search box.  As of 3/11/06, www.amysoffice.com ,  a Wolfdreams developed  and managed real estate website comes up #1.  The same search on Yahoo (3/11/06) came up with both #1 & #2 position for amysoffice.com.  That's the way we like it.

Next, still on msn's search, enter the keywords - ufo paranormal books - in the search box. Guess who is #1 (seems I've seen that name before). And, on 3/11/06, Wolfdreams Books also comes up  #1 on Yahoo, American On Line, Clusty. AltaVista, AllTheWeb and #3 on Lycos.  As for Google, I'm forced to play their game, so I come up on the first page of their sponsors under a search of - ufo books -  (" ... if you can't beat 'em, join 'em").

The message here: This is what you want to achieve for your website and you don't want to pay a lot of money to get results. You want someone to be able to tell you why you rank as high (or low) as you do. You want accountability, not a request for more fees (I only charge $9.95 for search engine submission and metatags for my accounts and the rest is all in the way we apply the basics).