How do you get your website to be listed first by a search engine ?

Question by John S2005: How do you get your website to be listed first by a search engine ?
When you do a search there may be hundreds of pages of results, but how many people bother looking through the first few pages. So if you're not listed on the first page is it really much use ?

Best answer:

Answer by MarZ
meta tags.
go look up how to put meta tags inside the

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meta_element

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