Sorry if it appears I get irrate easily.... I just have a certain mindset nd strong morales and ethics... and get more than a little peeved when people/companies/bodies/organisations/institutes... seem to hold a large amount of influence and perform in unusal or unsatisfactory ways...... it seems more and more that the internet is a money maker rather than an information base... even search engines are intent on making most of us pay, and it annoys me somewhat!

Yet, thank you both for the comments and advice, it really is appreciated!
So I will keep looking, then try to figure the best approach, (ahem, that is, after I go remove the hidden! LOL).

I agree it can be frustrating, there are alot of submission sites to choose from and can be time consuming, but remember we get out of it what we put into it. I would be happy to submit your site for you to over 140 search engines with my IBP & Arelis Business edition, you can look it up, it is not a spammer or one of those FFA submitters, but a professional submitter to places like google.france ,yahoo.italy and so on. You can check out the program by doing a google search. I can also run a report for you showing optimization,,,giving you the best plan on meta tags,keywords and so on. If your interested i will do this free of charge, i am willing to give to members what i can.
This helped us alot, we went from over 6 million on alexa.com to in the 700K in just 3 months. Good luck!!
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A file written and stored in the root directory of a website that restricts the Search Engine spiders from indexing certain pages of the website. This file is used to disallow certain spiders from seeing files that you not want them to see. You can also prevent a certain spider to look at any of the web pages through this file.
If an indexing robot knows about a document, it may decide to parse it, and insert it into its database. How this is done depends on the robot: Some robots index the HTML Titles, or the first few paragraphs, or parse the entire HTML and index all words, with weightings depending on HTML constructs, etc. Some parse the META tag, or other special hidden tags.
We hope that as the Web evolves more facilities becomes available to efficiently associate meta data such as indexing information with a document. This is being worked on...

Cannot believe this is still going... after 2 Years

Okay - lets think...


Now using a CMS system called Xaraya.
I have modified it quite a bit so as to increase SEO...

the code has the following...

Components
... these are the various bits of information that are used ...

Site Name (company / club / site title)
Page Name (the name / title for that page)
Site KeyWords (Those KW's that appear through-out the site)
Site Description (The Dscrptn that appears through-out the site)
Page KeyWords (Those KW's that appear for that page)
Page Description (The Dscrptn that appear for that page)


Placement
... these are the various placements of the information ...

HEADER
<title> = Site Name + Page Name
<kw> = Site Name + Page Name + Site KeyWords + Page Keywords
<dscrptn> = Site Name + Page Name + Site Description + Page Description

BODY
<h1> = Site Name
<h2> = Page Name
Content = Hopefull a fair density of the KW & Dscrptn

Focus on content and links!

It seems to me that you are using a Hit or Miss type of SEO. You should first read up on SEO-before implementing any changes on your site. The "Hidden Text" is a strict No-No with the 3 major SE's-Google, Yahoo, and MSN.

If you need guidance on what these 3 SE's consider a good site -good enough to be indexed and ranked-then you must read the guidelines.

You can find the link to the Guidelines and more on the resources page of my site:
http://seo-sem-professionals.com/seo-sem-resources.aspx

Read and understand.

Regards
Sunil Punjabi
http://www.seo-sem-professionals.com/