Search engines and generating hits?

[osensei]

I'm almost at that point in my site development where I need to be concerned about how to generate hits on the search engines. I've heard a lot of general talk on the subject in passing but never any specifics. So if I have a site that sells a certain widget then how do I make the short list on the search engines query result is my question?:confused:

[96turnerri]

try this site

http://searchenginewatch.com/webmasters/index.php

or go to

http://www.download.com

and go to web section lots search engine programs on there most are free or trials

96

[osensei]

Once I've been included with the search engines and crawlers how do I determine where the traffic is being generated from? And how do I incorporate counters into my web page?

[Robert Wellock]

Install a Web Statistics Analyser or you write your own in a server-side language like PHP.