Re: search engine aquisition

I gave a quick look at your page and source code, and there area a few
things that would answer your questions.
Search engines these days are quite picky and some take up to 3 months to
index a site.

Looking at your site:

- Put your title before your meta tags, as I said, they are picky.
- Make sure your title is actually the title of that page.  Welcome is what
will appear as the header in your listing.
- Put your description meta tag before your keyword meta tag. Again, they
are picky.
- Spamming search engines is something you definetely don't want to do and
unfortunately you have.  Repeating your main keyword more than 3 or 4 (4 is
pushing it) is considered spamming.  I noticed storage repeated too much.
- Make sure all your keywords are reflected in that page content.  Too many
words in your keyword tag that aren't in the body of your tag will get you
penalized as well.
- I didn't count, but check and make sure you don't have too many keywords
as well.  A good rule of thumb is no more than 850 characters.
- This is a small thing, but I have seen a page or 2 get penalized or use of
capital letters.  I noticed you used them once in your description.
Probably won't make a difference, but everything counts.
- Content on your page is important as well.  Some search engines may not
find enough text content here, but that is questionable.
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sbibby(at)cgocable.net
Professional Search Engine Submission and followupIn your description, don't
include the title of your page.

Original Message-----
From: bob & joanne hicks <overlocker(at)ev1.net>
To: hwg- basics(at)hwg.org <hwg-basics(at)hwg.org>
Date: Friday, December 03, 1999 5:30 AM
Subject: search engine aquisition


>Greetings,
>
>Long story made short:
>1-Back in August I decided I wanted to learn how to make a website.
>2-Built it. My boss saw it and liked it, asked me to make one for all
>his properties-did it.
>3-Contacted local purveyor of website servers and general computer
>stuff.
>4-We paid him for (a) server access for a year, and (b) a secondary
>transaction which was to
>ensure our sight would be placed at the top of a "minimum of 100 search
>engines" - again, this is back in August.
>5-It is now December and when we go to the major search engines and
>enter the keywords as viewed on the page source,
>our site does not come up at all, even way down on the list.
>6-Site of reference is:   http://www.selfstoragectr.com
>7-My question is this: have I neglected to insert any sort of tag? (I
>ran this site on the hwg validator last night and am making the
>suggested changes)
>8-Second question: Is this just a case of someone likely taking
>advantage of us, is there something he did not tell us concerning search
>engines.
>
>TIA
>
>Bob Hicks
>
>

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