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

[Jo]

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.

[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]

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

[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]

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]

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]

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