Can't find my site on any search engine - help

Jo · Joined: 18 Oct 2005 Posts: 7 Location: West Yorkshire

I've just built my first website, put relevant keywords on numerous pages with descriptions, done the meta tags and yet cannot find it through a number of search engines. Don't know where I'm going wrong. Can anyone come up with any suggestions.
Rolling Eyes

webmaster

First of all, welcome to DEVPPL.

If you search for:
site:www.yourdomain.com

on Google, MSN or Yahoo. Will that show any results, do you see your site there?

ReFredzRate

Sometimes it takes a while for a site to get listed...

Jo · Joined: 18 Oct 2005 Posts: 7 Location: West Yorkshire

Thank you for the response. I have tried yourdomain as suggested and all was fine regarding registered data etc. Rolling Eyes

webmaster

You should not search for yourdomain, you should search for your domain, in my case, I would search for
site:www.devppl.com

How many results is showing up when you do this on your domain?

Jo · Joined: 18 Oct 2005 Posts: 7 Location: West Yorkshire

None Didn't come up with anything as couldn't find a match in google. Just before my search I entered my url on the google system. Didn't know I even had to register my url with a search engine to start with. Wish dreamweaver books would provide follow through info when one's built a site. I think I'll have to take a step back and recheck the website. Many thanks for your help though.

Ash

When you submit a website to google it takes time to appear so try again in a few days.

webmaster

It could take up to a month until a search engine indexes your site if you add it manually, I would suggest that you trade links with some other sites, that will get you indexed much quicker.

Jo · Joined: 18 Oct 2005 Posts: 7 Location: West Yorkshire

Thank you very much for your help. I shall aim to add a few links. One has to wait for the good things in life as they say. Setting aside my issue, I think the DEVPPL site is very good. I shall be back for more looksees.

Jo · Joined: 18 Oct 2005 Posts: 7 Location: West Yorkshire

Hi again. I've discovered Google has found my site at long last which is great, that was when I'd typed in the domain name without the .co.uk etc. However, after typing in a keyword and trawling through 77 pages which was the last page, I didn't find my site. Perhaps something is wrong with how I've done the keywords, I don't know. How and where do I go from here?

Jo

johneva

Hia

Do you have a robot meta tag?
This address expains.
http://www.robotstxt.org/wc/meta-user.html

Also try this test.
http://www.submitexpress.com/analyzer/
It will check your Title relevnce and keyword density.

Hope that helps.

webmaster

A robots.txt -file will not help you get indexed, it will only prevent some pages or directories to get indexed. The submitexpress service will not either help you get indexed faster.

Do only thing you have to do it so get some good links and then just be patient.

Jo · Joined: 18 Oct 2005 Posts: 7 Location: West Yorkshire

Thank you again for the suggestions. I have been looking at sites to link to as well.

With regard to keywords, I'm only using keywords that I've quoted within my website, however, if I were to add any keywords not quoted on my website will the search engines still find my site. For example;

Keyword I use is 'hillwalkers' as this is part of the title.

What if I added a keyword which is not on the site eg 'walking' as this would still be relevant to the site?

The reason I ask is that my website is mainly maps and pictures and two lines of text for each page which is an overview of a walk. The guidelines provided by Google seem to suggest you can only use keywords used in text on a website. I was hoping to avoid creating text on a page in order to make up keywords. Your help would be most appreciated again.

johneva

Hia

As far as I know you will lower your rank if you have key words that are not included in your web pages.

As mentioned before make full use of your alt text for images.

Another thing as far as I know some search engines wont index you if you dont have a certain amount of words in your web site anyways.

webmaster

For every keyword you want to target for, make a new page, for example hillwalkers.html

Set the title to some sentence where the work hillwalkers are included. A page will get indexed even if it doesn't have much text on it, but the more the better. If you can, try to get around 500 words on the page. And use simular words to your main keyword and you will be fine. Make sure to set your keyword within <h1> -tags too.