search engine classification

Hi All

I'm doing in-depth research on each major search engine trying to 
determine how to get my web sites listed on them--it is getting 
harder and harder ever since they allllll started selling that 
service (i'm aware of how to use Keywords in meta tags and also in 
body text, getting other sites to link to your page, etc. to get the 
page ranked high).

I found out that Northern Light classes sites according to their 
extension. i.e., .com and .net  is always commercial; .org is a non 
profit registered org and  a tilde (~) before a name is designated as 
a personal web site.

Yahoo! also distinguishes between commercial and
non-commercial sites. Commercial sites belong in the Business and 
Economy section. If it's not listed there they may throw out the 
request.

Does anyone know if this categorization of business/org/personal is 
common practice with all search engines?

It appears this will make a big difference in what extension you 
choose for a domain name because the wrong choice could affect how 
your site is listed in search engines, or not at all.

For instance, I am about to purchase a domain name for my web 
business which will end in .com but that will not be suitable for my 
other page(s) which are focused on poetry or a ministry (not 
non-profit orgs) so I assume I should stick with the personal page 
identifier of a ~tilde. Am I understanding this correctly?

OR---after I have my own domain name, can I use a ~tilde on a .com 
site, at my own discression, to indicate a personal page so the 
search engines will correctly register a personal page on a .com 
site? For instance:

http://www.loriwebs.com/~poetry/

Any suggestions?

thanks,

Lori

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