I have the web site in place. It's got good SEO. Keywords on the pages, links are optimized, everything is ready.

How do I go about getting a search engine to recognize it (google) and how do I get a higher search engine positioning with it?

Does placing links to related sites improve rankings? As google says that their motive is to provide better information to people, I think they give weightage to links to related sites as well. For example many pages in wikipedia have links to .gov or .edu sites like say 20 links per page. This is b...

I recently started a directory on a domain i wasnt using. When people add their site they are asked to link back to me but its not required. I want to keep my directory for the people who use it, i don't plan on charging for adding a site and i dont want to force people to link back to me if they do...