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Q.
Why my web sites aren't indexed by the search engines?
(We
have been using your product now for around 5 weeks
now, submitting about every week or so, however, we're
not showing up anywhere on any of the major search engines.
What am I doing wrong?)
Your
web site URLs are embedded in JavaScript.
This
is the most common reason why your web sites are not
indexed by the search engines. If your web site URLs
are embedded in JavaScript, most of the search engines
will not recognize and index these pages. If you're
serious about getting your web sites to be indexed by
the search engines and get a good position on the MAJOR
search engines such as AltaVista, Lycos, Go Network,
Excite, Yahoo and many others, please consider changing
your web site style, either by putting your links in
simple html format or making alternative links at the
bottom of your page just for the search engines.
There
are no or little content on your web pages
If your web site was designed for "Nice looking" which
means that contains only the Image, Flash, Java, Image
map etc, and there is no actual text information (or
just little text) on your web pages, your web pages
will be ignored by the search engines because search
engines will index the web sites, which contain valuable
information. Please put any real useful information
in text format to your web pages.
Your
Pages Are not Cross-Linked.
Not
all search engine spiders visit your website from your
main index page (index.html). If you have not linked
each of your pages with all your other pages, you stand
the risk of having engines indexing only one or two
of your pages. Just add text links at the bottom of
your pages to all your other pages.
Your
web site is a Frame style
Most
major search engines do not support Frame style of the
web sites. If you wish your web sites to be indexed
by the search engines and get good results, please consider
changing your web sites to a non-frame style.
Using
the correct Html Tags
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE></TITLE>
<META
name="description" content="put a short description
here">
<META
name="keywords" content="put your keywords here">
</HEAD>
<BODY
BGCOLOR=FFFFFF>
Put
your contents here ....
</BODY>
</HTML>
Some
search engines such as AltaVista and Google completely
ignoring websites that have invalid html tag sequences.
Also, please make sure you use the close tags correctly.
For e.g. <font> requires that you have </font>,
<table> requires a </table>. Your browser
may display it correctly, but if you want the page to
be indexed, check your codes and put them in order.
Do
not use any Virtual Domain Redirection Service
If
you are using an Internet Redirection Service to make
it easy for people to remember your website address,
please do not use the Redirection web site address for
your submission, use your real web site URL to submit
to the search engines.
Using
normal .html (or .htm) file format
If
the contents of your web pages are generated at real
time by using a script such as .cgi, .asp etc rather
than a normal .html (or .htm) file, you are taking the
risk that your web sites may be ignored by the search
engines, because search engines want to index the web
pages where they knew what the information is.
Meta
Refresh and Meta Robots Tags
Check
your codes for the following tags between the <head>
and </head>.
<meta
http-equiv="Refresh" content="0; URL=http://www.other-domain.com/directory/filename.html">
This
tag redirects your page to another web site. If you
have this tag in your code, the robots will usually
completely ignore your website altogether.
<meta
name="ROBOTS" content="NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW">
This
tag specifically directs robots to ignore that web page.
If you have it in your code, remove it immediately.
You can use it on pages you do not want search engines
to index.
Are
You Using Free Website Hosting?
Many
free website hosts use various methods of enforcing
their advertising banners on your website. This sometimes
causes wrong and/or incomplete indexing of your website.
If you have repeatedly had trouble with getting your
free website indexed, switch to a pay web hosting provider.
Please
also check relate information on "How
long it will take for the search engines to index my
web site?" and "Tips
on how to improve your web site position".
 
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