Google web site listing

Mike · 13-03-2005, 09:55

Hi all

I registered my site with google..............

http://www.google.co.uk/addurl/?hl=en&continue=/addurl

Does google then look at the home page for search matches and the list hits........as mine does not come up when I search on some text in my home page !

Any ideas

Thanks Mike

scrotnig · 13-03-2005, 10:06

They will 'spider' your page in the next few weeks and then it will be listed.

markmarkymark · 13-03-2005, 10:07

Hi ..

When did you submit? It takes time for the google spiders (robots) t visit your site. They only need the index page - they should be able to find their way around after that as long as you have good HTML. However do not expect to see your page for some time - even if you search on unique terms. Your placing will depend on :

a) How popular your subject area is (i.e. the search terms used to find sites on google)

b) Your incoming links. This is important since google will rank your site according to how popular it is. Therefore without spamming you need to try and get other interested sites to link too you.

c) Of less importance (but still some importance) is your out going links

d) Finally your content! Google appears to like good content (as do people). So make sure the site is useful and it will appear soon!

(Believe me, I know from bitter experience!)

cheers

Mark

Richard M · 13-03-2005, 10:19

In addition to the above I'd recommend:
- Make good use of heading tags, Google likes sites with good titles and headings. Properly structured HTML in other words.
- Don't submit it via their add URL page (looks like you are too late though). They automatically place less emphasis on pages submitted this way than to pages found via normal crawling.

markmarkymark · 13-03-2005, 12:14

Quote:

Originally Posted by Richard M

Don't submit it via their add URL page (looks like you are too late though). They automatically place less emphasis on pages submitted this way than to pages found via normal crawling.

Interesting fact Richard - did not know that. However I would have thought a brand new site would need a helping hand if nothing already spidered is linked to it?

Richard M · 13-03-2005, 12:26

The best (and quickest) way to get yourself listed is to get good descriptive links from other sites which have a decent Page Rank.

i.e. For CF you'd have:
Helpful NTL and Telewest Information and News Site

Rather than:
Cable Forum

This is because not many people will find us just by typing the name of the website into Google - they search for different words instead.

SMHarman · 14-03-2005, 13:38

If you can see your weblogs have a look through them for googlebot. That will tell you when / if they have visited.
Put a robots.txt in the root also to tell the spiders where they can and cannot go.

slowcoach · 16-03-2005, 22:39

List your site at http://www.comoestamos.com and keep clicking on your link until you are the highest daily hit (you may have to restart your browser between visits to get the hit). Last time I listed a site on comoestamos it appeared on Google within the day, most it ever took was 48 hours.

OinkyBoinky · 17-03-2005, 12:06

it can take a while for sites to sppear in google... it took a while before my website appear at number 1 spot when u typed its name into google (oinkyboinky or oinky boinky). but thats probably cos its a bit of an obscure name, and not sumthin that there's liely to be a lot of other things appearing with the same name...

lol... oddly enough, i just search for my site name, andits dropped down to 3rd... with CableForum.co.uk in 2nd place lol... it seems its picked up a couple of things i've posted here...