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Search engine won't see my page
I have a website. I have added a title and appropriate <meta> tags to the source code. However, google, msn and lycos do not see my site when I search for the url. Yahoo and altavista do! I need help figuring this out. Please Help!
Ya, and how long your site has been up? Good suggestion is to submit new site to Free web directory. it's a good way and free way to get your site list in Google and other search engines.
It could be in the sandbox.
It could be in the sandbox.
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After more research, I can add some more information to the question. We are running apache server with 2 virtual hosts. The default host url is found by google and all the other search engines. The url in question is not found by google...
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Register your site in DMOZ.
If you are willing to spend a few dollars, you can buy a cheap $50 Google Adwords campaign.
I know it is not supposed to matter, but my limited experience shows that is does.
Do not bother with all of the others, you will find out that today 95% of all SE referring traffic comes from Google, 2.5% from Yahoo and MSN each, and the rest is negligible. Anyway, all of them rely on DMOZ.
ShalomC
If you are willing to spend a few dollars, you can buy a cheap $50 Google Adwords campaign.
I know it is not supposed to matter, but my limited experience shows that is does.
Do not bother with all of the others, you will find out that today 95% of all SE referring traffic comes from Google, 2.5% from Yahoo and MSN each, and the rest is negligible. Anyway, all of them rely on DMOZ.
ShalomC
"Do not bother with all of the others, you will find out that today 95% of all SE referring traffic comes from Google, 2.5% from Yahoo and MSN each, and the rest is negligible. Anyway, all of them rely on DMOZ."
None of the major search engines (Google, Yahoo and MSN) 'rely' on Dmoz at all. In fact, Google treats Dmoz the same as it treats any other website. It does not give any extra weight to a link that's in Dmoz.
However, in saying this, every link helps your website and getting into Dmoz can help your site. In addition, there are many Dmoz (ODP) clone sites out there too, but not all have a high PR value.
Dmoz also sorts not by pagerank like Google does, but rather by alphabetical order. While the Dmoz editors can select favorites and 'cool' sites, not all links in Dmoz are picked up by the Googlebot spiders.
It seems those websites listed in Dmoz that have updated content and are popular fair better and are often picked up by the Googlebots and indexed later in Google. However, each has its own rules. So while you might find a site listed in Dmoz you might not find the same site if its banned in Google.
To learn more about Dmoz by visiting their public forums ran by ODP editors at: <http://resource-zone.com/>
Mark
None of the major search engines (Google, Yahoo and MSN) 'rely' on Dmoz at all. In fact, Google treats Dmoz the same as it treats any other website. It does not give any extra weight to a link that's in Dmoz.
However, in saying this, every link helps your website and getting into Dmoz can help your site. In addition, there are many Dmoz (ODP) clone sites out there too, but not all have a high PR value.
Dmoz also sorts not by pagerank like Google does, but rather by alphabetical order. While the Dmoz editors can select favorites and 'cool' sites, not all links in Dmoz are picked up by the Googlebot spiders.
It seems those websites listed in Dmoz that have updated content and are popular fair better and are often picked up by the Googlebots and indexed later in Google. However, each has its own rules. So while you might find a site listed in Dmoz you might not find the same site if its banned in Google.
To learn more about Dmoz by visiting their public forums ran by ODP editors at: <http://resource-zone.com/>
Mark
See the following list of web sites and search engines that regularly consume the dmoz odp data feed.
At least google is formally listed.
To really know if you are listed on google, msn or yahoo, you have to monitor your web site's logs.
ShalomC
At least google is formally listed.
To really know if you are listed on google, msn or yahoo, you have to monitor your web site's logs.
ShalomC
Mark