Dear 2fromnz,
First of all, and that is very important - Google Answers is not
linked with the Google Index, and I am not a Google employee. I am,
though, sort of an expert on search engine submission, and in
particular in Google submission.
Google doesn't work like many other search engines, which are
human-edited. Google has a robot, which crawls between sites' links to
other sites, thereafter indexing them. Moreover, as much as a site is
linked by other sites, it has more chances to be indexed.
In other words - submission to the "submit a site" option is usually
not enough. You have to be linked to other sites.
The reason you don't appear in Google's search engine could be, that
you haven't been crawled to yet. That might be because you are not
linked to any site, and no site links to you.
So, the first step you have to take in order to ensure a Google
indexing, is
to convince as many other site holders to link you site to theirs. For
example, sites of French tourism agencies, sites of Avignon tourist
board, sites that deal with tourism in France, etc (some of these site
may ask you to link theirs in return, that's the way it is).
You can also "advertise" your site in Google Groups
(http://groups.google.com/) that specialise in tourism in France, thus
maintaining the option
that people would voluntarily link to you.
Another fool proof method to be linked and indexed is to insert
yourself to the Google Directory (http://directory.google.com/). All
you have to do is choose a category in the directory, that would
describe you the best, and using the "submit a site" option.
You can find more information on Google's index at
://www.google.com/webmasters
I hope that answered your question. Please contact me for
clarifications on the answer. I'd be pleased to clarify my answer
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Request for Answer Clarification by
2fromnz-ga
on
20 Nov 2002 14:12 PST
Hi politicalguru,
Thank you for your answer, some details become clear to me.
However...
the site is linked to i.e. aveyron.com/tourisme/seloger/magnolias.html
and checking the logfile I noticed that some visitors came as well
from other search engines. Is this not enough for the beginning ?
Also I understand that the ranking becomes worse but not disappears
(as well as in my other question)
And last but not least do not really understand why you tell this to
me
**QUOTE**
First of all, and I have already written that to you before, - Google
Answers is not linked with the Google Index, and I am not a Google
employee. I am,
though, sort of an expert on search engine submission, and in
particular in Google submission. ****
I simply post questions as explained in google, is this not the right
way to do it ??
tks
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Clarification of Answer by
politicalguru-ga
on
21 Nov 2002 07:46 PST
Dear 2fromnz,
For your first question, I explained in your other question (regarding
Fritzi), that Google has sometimes "misktakes", and a site doesn't
appear to the robot when he crawls through links. For example, your
server might have been "down" at the time of the crawling, and
therefore the site was not updated. There are some reasons for Google
to remove manually your site from their indexed *which doesn't seems
to be your case* (cloaking, link exchange). It seems to me that you
are linked to too few sites, which are themselves "less important".
As for your second question, I say that because Google Answers is a
completely other service. Google Answers is service where you can get
answers for your question - not only those that are related to Google
(but also, for example this one
https://answers.google.com/answers/main?cmd=threadview&id=111800, whic
deals with politics ; this business question
https://answers.google.com/answers/main?cmd=threadview&id=111786 ;
this entertainment question
https://answers.google.com/answers/main?cmd=threadview&id=111863 or
this computers question
https://answers.google.com/answers/main?cmd=threadview&id=111843). You
can get more information about it here
https://answers.google.com/answers/faq.html
The people who answer the questions (like me) are not Google
employees, but experts on the fields they choose to answer. Therefore,
there is no connection to Google themselves. If you want to contact
Google personnel about your site, there are some instructions in the
Google Information for Webmasters (://www.google.com/webmasters/)
and mailto:help@google.com, or in their user support forum
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=google.public.support.general
I hope that helped.
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