Google Basics

Google boasts over 200+ million searches per day!

Percent of Googles Search Traffic : 71.5%
Primary Results : Robot Crawler
Organic listings also influenced by : Open Directory (dmoz.org)
Ways to submit : Google Sitemaps, Submit URL form, wait for robot, Pay-Per-Click Google Adwords

Google Tools

Google Analytics, Local Business Listings, Google Maps, Google Base, Business Solutions, Webmaster Tools

The Search Engine Markup

Free and Paid Directories
Pay-Per-Click – Google Adwords
Site Feeds – Trusted feed or Paid Inclusion
Meta Search Engines – Comparison Shopping – Base
Blogsphere – Inbound links

Other Search Engines: Yahoo, MSN, Ask, AOL

If you get on the first page of Google for a good keyword phrase, it is like having free Google Adwords listing which is worth its weight in gold in driving qualified prospects into your small business funnel. The increase in traffic from a top search engine ranking would be dramatic and effective.