Well, I decided to go with godaddy.com to host my web site. The site is up and works great. I just have one more question. Why can't I find it through the typical internet search engines? I think I have the meta tags done properly. Is there something here I'm missing? I didn't have this problem when I did my groups web site on the university server.

Thoughts... answers..... help.....

Thanks,


WV

 

search engines these days ( yahoo and google ) dont use tags

They spider or index the ENTIRE site one link at a time - It typically takes WEEKS or months for a site that is WELL LINKED to be added to either yahoo or google

The best way to help is to get links to your site from POPULAR sites that are already well indexed

You can submit the site but that doesnt work all the time
To test it you can put up a page linked off your home page that has UNIQUE text - then search for that text in a month or 2

 

It took over a year to get mine to appear in a yahoo search.

 

Have you considered payola?

 

That's funny....

Thanks for the info guys. I kinda figured it would be a matter of time... I didn't think it would be quite that much time though. I was thinking hours to days not so much months to years. Oh well...

Thanks!

WV

 

I would count on at least 4-6 weeks before the site appears in major search indexes, providing that your site has content that is desirable to the spiders. You can also submit url's manually at the respective search engines. That may decrease the indexing time to 3-4 weeks, but that's no guarantee.

 

What is your website?

 

I have spent the last 4 years working on search engine optimization. I would start with a Good Site Map. It's free and will crawl the files in your web root and make an XML file. You can then submit it to google. There are also many different ways to make your content search engine friendly.

You also need to have content that the search engine spyders will index. We got greedy in our last attempt. I made an app that created 50,000 "fake" pages that looked like relavent info to our site. we got all of them indexed then google completely deleted us from their search results - that was a while back. We are back on now, from lots of begging.

People have written thousands of books on this.

In short. Your site will eventually get crawled. Weather or not you want to make your search engine presence larger is a whole other ballpark.

Good luck.

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