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How to make my site more Google friendly.

I own www.realmhistory.net and I'm looking for ways to make my site more google friendly.

I submitted the site on google, and a sitemap, now I'm waiting for it to get indexed.

Also I heard about:
<meta http-equiv="Keywords"
and
<meta http-equiv="Description"

Does It matter how big Keywords list is ? Is it better to keep it small, or can I make it huge ?
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"Submitting to Google and adding a sitemap might not get you indexed"

I meant if it's just a regular sitemap
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brightwood,

between seo-blog.com/tutorial.php and EE's online marketing topic area, you'll be fine. I did want to point out one semi-unrelated thing:

       "Having visited your main page, I have literally no idea what your site is about."

It's true, I didn't know what your site was about until I got to the second page. Which took 30 seconds because I was trying to figure out the site from the first page only, which is almost impossible, It's a cool site, it would be cool to see it not turning away confused people. I'm guessing you want your visitors from the SERPs to be able to figure out what your game is about.

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>> I did want to point out one semi-unrelated thing

I really differ on this point - I don't see content as at all unrelated.   If your default page contains no content, confused human visitors are the least of your worries.  Content on your default page should be germane to the purpose of the site not only for human visitors (who presumably know why they're visiting your site in the first place), but more importantly for search engines to determine your site's relevance for your desired keywords.



Yes. According to WeBuildPages.com, having any! of your pages be a page with not enough content on it, you can get placed in a category by Google that, most likely, will lower your rankings. I think this it's possible.
"Content on your default page should be germane to the purpose of the site not only for human visitors (who presumably know why they're visiting your site in the first place), but more importantly for search engines to determine your site's relevance for your desired keywords."

Absolutely.