Search Engine Listing
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Is there a trick to this? Am I missing something very simple? I've had a website for over 3 years, and it cannot be found in ANY search engines. Anyone have any tips to fix this problem? ~Mike Stanbrook
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Is there a trick to this? Am I missing something very simple? I've had a website for over 3 years, and it cannot be found in ANY search engines. Anyone have any tips to fix this problem? ~Mike Stanbrook
MStanbrook wrote: Is there a trick to this? Am I missing something very simple? What search engines have you submitted it too? Later, JoeSox “Dream as if you'll live forever, Live as if you'll die today" - James Dean (ISTP) www.joeswammi.com ↔ www.humanaiproject.org
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MStanbrook wrote: Is there a trick to this? Am I missing something very simple? What search engines have you submitted it too? Later, JoeSox “Dream as if you'll live forever, Live as if you'll die today" - James Dean (ISTP) www.joeswammi.com ↔ www.humanaiproject.org
Yahoo, AltaVista, WebCrawler, Lycos... Any that I could think of. Are there specific requirements for the site to be captured by their bots? Certain META tags required? Page extensions (/htm, .html, .asp, .aspx, etc)? ~Mike Stanbrook
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Yahoo, AltaVista, WebCrawler, Lycos... Any that I could think of. Are there specific requirements for the site to be captured by their bots? Certain META tags required? Page extensions (/htm, .html, .asp, .aspx, etc)? ~Mike Stanbrook
Well. My general rule of thumb is keywords you want in your page content and in the meta tags. Analyzing your traffic will help you decide which keywords need to stay and what needs to go. You may wish to submit to www.dmoz.org[^] again. The longest I have had to wait is 7 or 8 months before getting listed on yahoo. But google has been running about 2 to 4 weeks I think. Later, JoeSox “Dream as if you'll live forever, Live as if you'll die today" - James Dean (ISTP) www.joeswammi.com ↔ www.humanaiproject.org
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Is there a trick to this? Am I missing something very simple? I've had a website for over 3 years, and it cannot be found in ANY search engines. Anyone have any tips to fix this problem? ~Mike Stanbrook
Hmm, even my web-page appears in a Google search and it consists of no more than a few lines of HTML. What kind of content do you have? Is it static HTML? Do you link out to other sites and do other sites link into you? What's the URL? Michael 'Logic, my dear Zoe, merely enables one to be wrong with authority.' - The Doctor: The Wheel in Space
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Is there a trick to this? Am I missing something very simple? I've had a website for over 3 years, and it cannot be found in ANY search engines. Anyone have any tips to fix this problem? ~Mike Stanbrook
Get a blog on your site and update often. I no longer have to even try with search engines, my site ranks in first page on a wide range of topics I am no expert in but mentioned maybe once or twice at most. I did not even submit my site (why would I submit a personal journal anyway? Must have crawled through a link). Honestly, search engines are biased towards fresh content with well structured HTML. The CONTENT Meta Tag has been so abused that most search engines no longer use them in a meaningful way. Put your title in a H1, use your search words in the content of your pages often and update often. Get others to link to you as well, that helps a lot. What is your link? regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass South Africa Miszou wrote: I have read the entire internet. on how boring his day was. Crikey! ain't life grand?
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Is there a trick to this? Am I missing something very simple? I've had a website for over 3 years, and it cannot be found in ANY search engines. Anyone have any tips to fix this problem? ~Mike Stanbrook
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Hmm, even my web-page appears in a Google search and it consists of no more than a few lines of HTML. What kind of content do you have? Is it static HTML? Do you link out to other sites and do other sites link into you? What's the URL? Michael 'Logic, my dear Zoe, merely enables one to be wrong with authority.' - The Doctor: The Wheel in Space
Really? I must be doing something very wrong then. The site is simple description of my company, and the content hasn't changed in months. There are only about 4-5 ASP.net pages. I have a few links to other site (i.e. microsoft, oracle) on the page, and I don't think anyone else links to us. URL is http://www.cvtgroup.com[^] ~Mike Stanbrook
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Doesnt it, or at lease as far as google goes, have something to do with the amount of links to your site by other sites on the web. www.fuxup.com[^]
That could be a problem, since I don't think ANYONE has linked to us... ~Mike Stanbrook
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Really? I must be doing something very wrong then. The site is simple description of my company, and the content hasn't changed in months. There are only about 4-5 ASP.net pages. I have a few links to other site (i.e. microsoft, oracle) on the page, and I don't think anyone else links to us. URL is http://www.cvtgroup.com[^] ~Mike Stanbrook
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:omg: Haven't been to AltaVista in a while i guess. Last i remember, the front page was *huge*, looked like it'd been crapped out by Yahoo!, and then eaten and crapped out by Excite. Now it looks like... Google. How things change...
Lookin' good, but sure don't feel right...
Shog9
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:omg: Haven't been to AltaVista in a while i guess. Last i remember, the front page was *huge*, looked like it'd been crapped out by Yahoo!, and then eaten and crapped out by Excite. Now it looks like... Google. How things change...
Lookin' good, but sure don't feel right...
Shog9
Shog9 wrote: Now it looks like... Google. I haven't used AltaVista in a year. At first I thought they were just a front end for Google. I guess the 'search engine' wars are still going on - even though google won for my years ago. Michael 'Logic, my dear Zoe, merely enables one to be wrong with authority.' - The Doctor: The Wheel in Space
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Is there a trick to this? Am I missing something very simple? I've had a website for over 3 years, and it cannot be found in ANY search engines. Anyone have any tips to fix this problem? ~Mike Stanbrook
Strange...mine is up for the same time, and come on the first page of google, yahoo, altavista or hotbot. I just put the "meta name content" tag in main htm page, and perhaps 20 links directed to others sites through the different pages.
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Is there a trick to this? Am I missing something very simple? I've had a website for over 3 years, and it cannot be found in ANY search engines. Anyone have any tips to fix this problem? ~Mike Stanbrook
Have your meta words in H1 and H2 tags might help Also get Links to a sopecific page on your site, rather than just the .com . Make sure you yourseld use the google toolbar with the page rank info working. Make sure your site is in the meta words eg http://www.cvtgroup.com/. Doing all this should get you to the top in 5 minutes. Regardz Colin J Davies
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Yahoo, AltaVista, WebCrawler, Lycos... Any that I could think of. Are there specific requirements for the site to be captured by their bots? Certain META tags required? Page extensions (/htm, .html, .asp, .aspx, etc)? ~Mike Stanbrook
USE THE META KEYWORDS TAGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! If you don't you'll be placed under Information Unavailible section of the bookmarks in my browser. (btw. my browser organizes the bookmarks based on keywords). See my site's source for a meta description and keywords example: http://404Browser.com[^] -Steven Hicks
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Is there a trick to this? Am I missing something very simple? I've had a website for over 3 years, and it cannot be found in ANY search engines. Anyone have any tips to fix this problem? ~Mike Stanbrook
Keywords/Meta tags - Don't have more than 2 or 3 Meta keywords. Search engines rank your pages by weight. When a searcher enters some words and hits "search", the search engine pulls up the sites that most closely match the search criteria by weight. Examples: Site 1 has this KEYWORD meta-tag: Sports,Gambling,Baseball Site 2 has this KEYWORD meta-tag: Baseball, Basketball, Hockey Site 3 has this KEYWORD meta-tag: Baseball Now, if a user entered the word "Baseball" for their search, Site 3 would come up before the other 2 because Site 3 would be 100% and carry more weight. So you see that having a million different meta-keywords actually hurts your placement (unless the searcher enters several of your keywords as their search criteria). In addition, the body text of your homepage should carry the meta-tag keyword 4 or 5 times. That will add to the search engine weighting. So your homepage should carry some text like: "Do you like BASEBALL? Well you have come to the BASEBALL site that has all the BASEBALL information that any true BASEBALL fan wants!" Another factor that adds weight to your site is the number of external links. How many sites link to your site? The more sites that link to your site - the more weight your site gets. Do you really want traffic to come to your site? Then create a link-exchange page and contact other site owners and arrange link exchanges. This is how the adult industry does it, and it works exactly the same way for non-adult sites.
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Get a blog on your site and update often. I no longer have to even try with search engines, my site ranks in first page on a wide range of topics I am no expert in but mentioned maybe once or twice at most. I did not even submit my site (why would I submit a personal journal anyway? Must have crawled through a link). Honestly, search engines are biased towards fresh content with well structured HTML. The CONTENT Meta Tag has been so abused that most search engines no longer use them in a meaningful way. Put your title in a H1, use your search words in the content of your pages often and update often. Get others to link to you as well, that helps a lot. What is your link? regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass South Africa Miszou wrote: I have read the entire internet. on how boring his day was. Crikey! ain't life grand?
Heh, maybe having a link to your site in your sig on a Google ranked 8 site had a little to do with that ;) David
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Heh, maybe having a link to your site in your sig on a Google ranked 8 site had a little to do with that ;) David
hehe yeah I thought about that but then realised Chris has set the Lounge not to be crawled by search engines. regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass South Africa Miszou wrote: I have read the entire internet. on how boring his day was. Crikey! ain't life grand?
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Is there a trick to this? Am I missing something very simple? I've had a website for over 3 years, and it cannot be found in ANY search engines. Anyone have any tips to fix this problem? ~Mike Stanbrook
No offense to the others that replied, but my advice is to pay nearly no attention to anything anyone has written here. We have a top ranked site and it's not that hard, there are no tricks, just doing things properly. Here is a good site that contains (in various areas) every possible thing you need to know to get a good search engine listing and for web marketing in general: www.bruceclay.com[^] Be very wary of asking people for advice on this unless they absolutely know what they are doing. Some of the old tactics that were popular just a year or two ago will get your site completely banned from some search engines.
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Get a blog on your site and update often. I no longer have to even try with search engines, my site ranks in first page on a wide range of topics I am no expert in but mentioned maybe once or twice at most. I did not even submit my site (why would I submit a personal journal anyway? Must have crawled through a link). Honestly, search engines are biased towards fresh content with well structured HTML. The CONTENT Meta Tag has been so abused that most search engines no longer use them in a meaningful way. Put your title in a H1, use your search words in the content of your pages often and update often. Get others to link to you as well, that helps a lot. What is your link? regards, Paul Watson Bluegrass South Africa Miszou wrote: I have read the entire internet. on how boring his day was. Crikey! ain't life grand?
Me too. I've had messages from people searching for stuff I've only mentioned a couple of times in my journal, and that's exactly where they've ended up. A while ago I discovered that typing "Anna Metcalfe" into Google and hitting the "I'm Feeling Lucky" button takes you straight to my site. No one was more surprised than me! If I remember correctly I did submit it to Google when I started it last year though - and all pages include meta tags set to something appropriate. Anna :rose: Homepage | Tears and Laughter "Be yourself - not what others think you should be" - Marcia Graesch "Anna's just a sexy-looking lesbian tart" - A friend, trying to wind me up. It didn't work. Trouble with resource IDs? Try the Resource ID Organiser Visual C++ Add-In