There is also a current events section that reads a lot like a newspaper but is actually written by people from general community in a kind of blog format. This is a step forward in hearing whole story about an event. You can look at previous dates like an archive that sure beats having to keep your old newspapers.

There are also some ‘sister’ projects being constructed by Wikipedia group such as Wiktionary (dictionary and thesaurus), Wikibooks (free textbooks and manuals), Wikiquote (collection of quotations), Wikisource (free source documents), Wikispecies (directory of species), Wikinews (free content news source), Commons (shared media), and Meta-Wiki (Wikimedia).

In site’s Community Portal section they actively ask visitors to help research specific topics as well work in collaborations. They need people to copy-edit articles as well as expanding, cleaning up and updating pages. I think it is a definite opportunity for people who would like to be writers, researchers, editors and like to get some real practice in their preferred trade.

“Imagine a world in which every person has free access to sum of all human knowledge. That's what we're doing.” This is Wikipedia’s message and it’s quite an altruistic one. As they are a non-profit organisation they rely on participants’ donations to buy servers and bandwidth, discspace etc that they need to keep up with growing amount of users. So, if you think it’s a great idea, get on boat, tell us what you know, and share your wealth with all.

4. META Tags. This may sound like something out of a science fiction movie, but it is very simple code that should be included in your site because its makes it more inviting to search engine spiders that crawl internet.

5. Don’t Cheat. Don’t try to ‘spam’ search engines by including invisible keywords repeated hundreds of times or by repeating key words in META tags. The engines are getting smart and will penalize you for this. They may even drop your site all together.

6. Patience, Patience, Patience! It can take weeks for search engines to re-index and re-rank your site once you have made changes or if you have a new site. Search engines are smart, but they taken time to sort through vast amounts of information that’s thrown at them. If you are patient, you will see results.

7. Many of major search engines still include a free submission section for their listings. It may take 6-8 weeks (or more) for your listings to show up, but Google, AltaVista and Yahoo still accept free submissions. Since search engine rank is key for success on internet, you may want to budget for search engine optimization and consider paid listings (Yahoo), or pay-per-click advertising on Google.

Good web design is a balance between what looks great and optimizing your site for search engines. Your content must be good enough so that other sites want to link to it while at same time include key search words that will draw potential customers. You also need to have your site built correctly and take time to manage it and keep it fresh. Now you are well on your way to having a high ranking website on Google. Good luck!