How To Get Your Site Indexed By Google? google search

[evought 0]

it took me @ least a month actually.
I don't really remember, it seems a long time ago

xboxrulz

My understanding is that google normally has to "discover" your site by finding a link to it somewhere else. The more links to your site from google indexed sites, the faster you will appear (and the higher your page rank). Adding yourself to the Xisto Forum Directory) can help in this respect. This is a reciprocal thing: Xisto links to you and your site links back. I have a link to the specific category (Art and Creativity in my case) and a banner add for Xisto that pops up occasionally. The other thing that often helps is when people refer to your site in forum posts. If you do this too much and gratuitously, however, it is considered rude.

[Rohan Ramanath 0]

Notice from szupie:

Copied from http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

Help the Googlebot understand your web siteA list of recommendations.

Right now I'd like to lock myself in a small padded room, froth at the mouth, and make menacing faces through barred windows at innocent passer-by. But my shrink says I should channel my anger into something productive.

So let's talk about Google.

Google is the best search engine on the 'net right now. The Googlebot is Google's indexing software. The Googlebot visits billions of web sites over time and records their contents, which makes them available to search. The Googlebot is very smart and works really well. But, like everyone, it could use a little help from its friends.

When authoring a web site, keep in mind that the Googlebot is software, which means it has a set of capabilities and limitations and algorithms it uses to index content. There are lots of effective ways to trip up the Googlebot and make it impossible for it to index your content. Alternately, the Googlebot can index your site well, and then people will find it when searching for words it contains.

As a web site author, there are a few simple things you can do to help the Googlebot understand your web site as fully as possible.

Here's a list.**

* Make every single page on your site accessible via a text-based link - as opposed to Javascript, Flash, DHTML, etc. The Googlebot only speaks text.
[see #6 in Nine things you can do to make your web site better]
* Keep the number of links on a given page less than 100.
[see Google's Webmaster Guidelines]
* Give every single page on the site a complete and meaningful <title>. Google offers the allintitle syntax, which lets users search only text that appears in a page title. There are over 3 million results returned for Untitled Document.
* Avoid frames. Avoid frames like the plague.
[see #3 in Nine things you can do to make your web site better]
* Use URLs with query strings sparingly, if at all. When using dynamic URLs, like
http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/
keep in mind that the shorter the list of query string parameters, the better.
[see #5 in Nine things you can do to make your web site better]
* Make sure that the title and alt tag attributes exist and are complete and meaningful in each page's markup. For example, the markup for that picture of your goldfish should be something like
<img src="/imgs/goldie.jpg" alt="my beloved goldfish, Goldie" />
* Make all relevant information on a page textual. Don't embed page content into images or objects like Flash movies. Did I mention the Googlebot only speaks text?
[see #6 in Nine things you can do to make your web site better]
* Make sure your web server supports the If-Modified-Since HTTP header. This feature allows your web server to tell Google whether your content has changed since the Googlebot last crawled your site. Supporting this feature saves you bandwidth and overhead.
[Verbatim from Google's Webmaster Guidelines]
* Use robots.txt and meta robots tags to show the Googlebot around your site. These standard mechanisms for directing well-behaved robots like the Googlebot will allow you to specify important things like whether or not Google will cache your page content and/or images, and whether or not the Googlebot will index content on pages that maybe you don't want available to the searching public.

Webloggers: use the meta tags to help the Googlebot index only your permalinks, not your constantly changing front page. To do this, use
<meta name="robots" content="noindex,follow" >
on your front page and
<meta name="robots" content="index,follow" >
on your posts' permanent locations.
[see #7 in Nine things you can do to make your web site better]
* Use meaningful text inside your tags so the Googlebot can associate that text with that href link. Meaning, if I am going to link my pictures from the war protest, I should say "Take a look at my photos from the war protest" instead of "My war protest pictures are here." Now, Google doesn't explicitly recommend this. But I have a friend named Damion who has a weblog which I link with the word "Damion" on my Bookmarks list. If you do a Google search for the word Damion, this weblog is the third result. So what, you say? Well, Damion doesn't mention his name anywhere on his site.

So don't use link text like read more or go here or download it or, God help us, click here. Don't click here.

Webloggers: take heed of this when you display the permanent link for a post. You should link the title of a post which presumably contains words which indicate what the post is about instead of a [+] or the word permalink or, common amongst Blogger users, the date and time.
* Include a
<meta name="description" content="[insert your site's description here]">
tag in your page header to summarize your site; even better, include descriptive text on the site's front page where users can actually read it, like, "Scribbling.net is a self-documentation project, occasionally interrupted by misdirected attempts at explaining the vaguely technical." This text will appear as the description for the site in Google results.
* Forget <meta name="keywords"> ever existed. Really. It's meaningless.
* Place more important content higher in the markup than less important content in a page.
* Don't try to fool the Googlebot with hidden links or duplicate content or irrelevant pages of words . The Googlebot doesn't like being played. The Googlebot will make you sorry.

Every few days Scribbling.net is ripe with new content, just waiting and wanting to be indexed and searched. Scribbling.net trembles with anticipation for it's weekly-or-so Googlebot visit, and when the big G arrives, let me tell you, it's like a well-choreographed dance. The Googlebot and Scribbling.net have all the elements of a healthy relationship: love, trust, respect, honesty and understanding. It's beautiful, really. Your site can know this kind of bliss too.

** Disclaimer: I'm no Google expert or employee, and I'm no SEO. As a matter of fact, SEOs who charge exorbitant amounts of money for "proprietary, secret" methods of upping your site's placement in Google results are thieves. There aren't secrets or tricks to any of this; my sources of information for this list of recommendations are the freely available Google Webmaster Guidelines and my own piddly server logs.

[austiniskoge 0]

what about 'meta tags'? a few months back, i was looking through a "how-to-get-your-website-on-google" tutorial, and it said before you ever try to submit your site, you must add "meta-tags'. i think they are some kind of extra coding which make your site easier to search, but i still don't know.can anyone explain?

[finaldesign1405241487 0]

what about 'meta tags'? a few months back, i was looking through a "how-to-get-your-website-on-google" tutorial, and it said before you ever try to submit your site, you must add "meta-tags'. i think they are some kind of extra coding which make your site easier to search, but i still don't know.

 

can anyone explain?

 

Meta tags are really simple stuff. It's a description tag that you put inside <head> tag of your html webpage, that have information about current page. Or to simplify this look at the current code:

 

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN""http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/ webpage</title>  <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1250" />  <meta name="description" content="it's a site about me..." />  <meta name="keywords" content="my name, design, graphic design" />

So, what are you looking at now? It's a beginning of every web page... you begin html webpage with <html> tag, then a <title> tag follows, and after that, you can put metadata, such as content-type, description and keywords.

 

A good explanation of meta tags can be read at this pages:

http://forums.xisto.com/no_longer_exists/

https://searchenginewatch.com/sew/how-to/2067564/how-to-use-html-meta-tags

 

and if you didn't find out what you looking for you can search google with keywords:

"meta tags explained"

(click to search with current keywords)

Edited May 25, 2006 by finaldesign (see edit history)