I cannot find my website when I search for it on Google.  Is there
something I can do to change that?
My website is
http://www.portlandfirefighters.org/pdxfire

Greetings, jeffh!

Once you've got your website ready to go, you want to submit it to
Google at:
<://www.google.com/addurl.html>      
  (Be aware that it may take anywhere from 1 to 3 months for your site
to start showing up on Google; however, since Google also uses DMOZ as
a guide to its indexing efforts, you might be able to speed that up a
little by also submitting your site in a DMOZ category as described
next.)
    
  DMOZ (Directory Mozilla/Open Directory Project):     
<http://www.dmoz.org/add.html>   
    FIRST: search using keywords that really describe your new 
    website to find the best category at <http://www.dmoz.org> , 
    then once you're on the page for the category you choose, 
    click on the blue "Add URL" hypertext link in the 
    upper right-hand corner of the page. 
    For you, I recommend 
Regional: North America: United States: Oregon: Localities: P:
Portland: Government
http://dmoz.org/cgi-bin/add.cgi?where=Regional/North_America/United_States/Oregon/Localities/P/Portland/Government
   
Other popular Search Engines to which you can submit your new site:
   
  HotBot:      
<http://ldbreg.lycos.com/cgi-bin/mayaLogin?m_PR=29&m_CBURL=http://insite.lycos.com/searchservices/lite?step1.asp>
    
  AllTheWeb:      
<http://www.alltheweb.com/add_url.php>      
    
  AltaVista:      
<http://addurl.altavista.com/addurl/new>      
    
  Zeal (LookSmart/MSN free submission w/free registration)      
<http://www.zeal.com/users/register.jhtml>      
 
 
To get a higher Google Page Rank, you should ask sites with similar or
related themes (such as other City of Portland websites (Police,
Portland Fire Department, City Hall, Chamber of Commerce), Portland
city information websites, as well as the Firefighters' League,
National Firefighters' Union, etc) if they would place a link to your
website on theirs in exchange for you placing a link to their website
on yours. You will especially want to find other sites which already
have a Page Rank of 4 or higher; you can determine a site's Page Rank
using the Google Toolbar, which is an add-in to Microsoft Internet
Explorer. You can read more about the Toolbar, and download it, here:
<http://toolbar.google.com>   

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I hope that this Answer provides exactly the information that you
needed. Best wishes for increased search rankings and traffic for your
website!
   
Regards,   
     
aceresearcher

This was exactly what I was looking for.