Because you have very little content, the spiders will not find your Web site very tasty and will virtually ignore it. Which means you will get very little traffic to your Web site in the form of visitors, surfers, tire kickers, etc. No data means that the search engines dont know you exist, you are invisible to them. Hiring an expert to do SEM is expensive.

It takes a long time to get accepted because a real person looks at your application, not a software robot like the search engine spider programs. If you are lucky enough to get listed, Google will index your Web site. You can also submit your Google sitemap to Google to get them to index your Web site.

You have to go to Google and get the URL for the sitemap and then create a separate Web page for that sitemap.

If you had the right Site Build It software, Site Build it software would do all submitting for you automatically. Check for Popularity to get Alexa Rank. There are only 4 or 5 search engines worth submitting to, the rest are a waste of time and money. The best way to get traffic is via lots of pages with quality content for the SEs to spider.

Craigslist is just one arrow in your quiver of search engine marketing arrows. They are spending millions on local search.

You should definitely have a dot com as part of your URL. This is what surfers expect.

Without it, you will get no targeted traffic. If you own a Web site, the Web site building software should have included SEO.

Otherwise, using the software is a waste of time; the Web site building software is useless. SEO includes Internet marketing and while articles posting, etc.

You need to do keyword analysis to find the best keywords for your Web site. Web pages so that the search engines will find them as their spiders crawl your Web site as well as putting them in your Title, Keywords, headings and description. Think about how the major search engines work. They key on what word or phrases the users enter. Just enter your keyword and it will tell you what the demand is for that keyword and how much it would cost to advertise it on Google via Google AdWords. Supply and demand is important for keywords. You want to find the keywords with a huge demand, but very little supply. Let me digress here and explain Supply and Demand.