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General Confusion · Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2002 9:24 am

this may be stupid but how do you get your site to appear in search engines???

I'm web illiterate, and probably spelled illiterate wrong also

any help you guys could offer would be cool

later and thanks

HawkOne · Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2002 10:35 am

Try these links ...

Add site to Google
Add site to Altavista
Add site to Yahoo (a major pain in the A$$!!)

You should be able to find out how this works on the pages that pop up. Time delay from submission to inclusion in their databases vary wildly, they claim 4-6 weeks but I've seen it happen instantly, and also after about 12 weeks.

Many of the good search engines will find your site themselves after a period of time.

If you have money to throw away you can pay someone to submit your site to a zillion search engines. For example these guys Worldsubmit.com

wisperman · Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2002 10:45 am

Also do yourself a favor and add some metatag keywords to your page. That way searches at a search engine will be more likely to find it. (ie: it might make your submissions efforts more worthwhile).
[If you don't know what I'm talking about, (which I guess is likely because I wasn't that clear) I've made a quick websearch and these pages should offer good explaination.

metatag help at Jimworld

Altavista metatags info

Wisper

[ January 29, 2002: Message edited by: wisperman ]

General Confusion · Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2002 10:52 am

hawkone, thanks man very helpful; I appreciate it

and

wisperman I actually know of metatags, and have them included, but couldnt understand why it wasn't come up in search engines, until hawkone informed me of the registering thing I had to do...

but thanks for the info

wisperman · Posted: Tue Jan 29, 2002 11:00 am

OH,
Well, you aren't quite web illiterate after all. Most people don't even know what I'm talking about if I mention anything regarding HTML coding etc. You are far ahead of the curve. Good luck on the site.

Wisper

adev · Posted: Thu Jan 31, 2002 1:26 pm

IF you want your site in the Search Engines there are a couple things to do..

Make sure your copy is full of keywords, and make sure those keywords appear several times on the pages.

Go to the SE's and try and add the site yourself.

Next have other people add links to your site (this is one of the BEST way to improve your rankings on Google).

Do not try to trick the search engines such as adding hidden words.

You can use MetaTags, athough now days they're not as important as the copy. For example: Google doesn't even use them.

Try for Google, Yahoo, Inktomi, and FAST. That would be a good start.