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How do I get a web page listed on search engines?
2004-09-20, 12:54 PM #1
Yea, I was told it was as easy as adding the following tag to my HTML code, however it's been over two weeks now, and I don't see this site I'm working on in any of my search results:
<meta name="keywords" content="blah blah blah">
Any suggestions on how to get it to show up? Preferably within the first ten results. If anyone curious as too the site I need added, you can view it here: http://www.stevebcartoons.com Also feel free to look at my code if that'll help any.
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2004-09-20, 12:57 PM #2
http://www.google.com/webmasters/
2004-09-20, 1:04 PM #3
Google doesnt look at meta tags.

The main things you can do (Worked for my site anyway). Put keyworks in the <title> tags. Also, put keywords in the first paragraph in the <body> tag.

The more sites you can get to link to yours will increase it's ranking.
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2004-09-20, 6:06 PM #4
The best way anymore is to let a bot (like Googlebot) just eventually come around and index your page, and to get that done faster, just post links to the page in various places. I've personally never submitted any of my sites to any engine and didn't link them much, but they all come up if you type the right words.
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2004-09-20, 7:06 PM #5
Best way:

Put the link in your sig on Massassi, and make sure you post every once in a while. Guaranteed to get your site listed within a few weeks. That's how Sorrowind made it into Google.
2004-09-20, 8:25 PM #6
Quote:
Originally posted by Aaron
The best way anymore is to let a bot (like Googlebot) just eventually come around and index your page, and to get that done faster, just post links to the page in various places. I've personally never submitted any of my sites to any engine and didn't link them much, but they all come up if you type the right words.


yes, i've always wondered how google indexes stuff, b/c my clients ask me that all the time. Unfortunately, details are sketchy at best. I knew that it didn't rely on meta tags, but that was it.

is there a way I can spoof the googlebot, or better yet, force it to index my page on demand (along with any clients) ?
2004-09-20, 8:29 PM #7
The behavior of the googlebot is really random. Some webmasters report being spidered a few times a day while others have weeks inbetween their spiderings (word?). And I don't think there'd be anyway to force it to index your page on demand or at all, due to safe guards probably built in the behavior. You're probably indexed more often the higher your page rank is, so if you increase that, you should be good. Part of the page rank is how many sites that link to you, so some people setup link farms that just link to one page to increase its popularity.
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2004-09-21, 4:12 AM #8
It's all about how many sites link to you, and which. Links from big, high ranking sites like Massassi will get you more ranking. Links from a geocities site is very unlikely to get you any rank. Everything builds on eachother.

But your best chance is to get as many links from as many different high ranking sites pointing to you as possible.
2004-09-23, 7:33 AM #9
I forgot I even posted this thread till recently. Just wanted to say thanks for your help (and of course get my new sig out there) :).
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http://www.stevebcartoons.com
http://www.kingcola.com
2004-09-23, 7:39 AM #10
Look up stuff about ROBOTS.TXT.

Search engine spiders examine such a file on your webserver to get info about how to index it etc.

2004-09-23, 8:10 AM #11
K, put up a robots.txt file in my main directory. It reads as the following:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /backup/

Is it really as simple as that?
GOOGLE FIND THESE SITES PLEASE KTHXBYE
http://www.stevebcartoons.com
http://www.kingcola.com
2004-09-23, 5:45 PM #12
It looks about right, and yes, if the engine respects it, it will obey whats in robots.txt. And google should respect it.
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