Hi there,
Welcome to the phenomenon that is known as The Google Dance!
Google Dance
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At present Google is updating its index. Sometimes when you search you
will see a newly listed site, and sometimes you don't. This mix of old
and new results happens because Google has hundreds of servers to
update, and some ISP caches take a while to change as well - this
hiccup of sorts is affectionately known as the Google Dance. It
usually lasts for 3 days or so.
Google updates its index roughly once a month. A list of the previous
updates can be found at WebMasterWorld:
http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum3/2657.htm
Also at WebMasterWorld is a discussion of the update which has just
begun:
http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum3/7233.htm
(247 messages already!)
I am aware of three tools that search multiple Google databases at
once. When some are showing different results to the others, you can
be fairly sure that the Google Dance is in progress.
Google Dance Tool
http://www.google-dance.com/
My Google Dance Machine
http://google-dance.miniunternehmen.de/
Google Tool
http://google.fergusons.dk/
When I used the first of the above tools, your site appeared on 5 of
the 7 databases. In a day or two it should be a permanent fixture, and
available for all Google searches.
Google has indexed at least 12 pages of your website:
://www.google.com/search?q=+site%3Awww.royalfashions.com+royal
Search Strategy
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Personal experience
I trust this answers your question. If any portion of my answer is
unclear, please ask for clarification.
Best wishes,
robertskelton-ga |
Request for Answer Clarification by
royalfashions-ga
on
30 Nov 2002 16:43 PST
Thanks for your answer. I am not very satisfied with the answer. It
seems you gave me a "general" (pre-templated) answer to this problem.
I had expected more for the price I had paid for this question. I was
expecting you to go to my website and see the source file to check if
the meta tags are proper and that they follow Google's guidelines. But
it seems you did not care to even check my website. I am not rating
this answer right now as I am expecting more details.
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Clarification of Answer by
robertskelton-ga
on
30 Nov 2002 17:23 PST
Hi again,
My first action for any query about a website is to visit it - I'd be
an idiot not to!
Because:
1) I could find no faults with your website (in terms of being listed
by Google)
2) A Google search for your site was successful
3) The Google Dance is happening right now
I determined that the most likely solution was a simple case of the
peculiarities of the Google Dance.
Google ignores the META keyword and description tags. The best way to
get Google search results for keywords is to include them in the
title, image alt tags, headings and general text on your web pages.
For receiving more search results, I recommend having some pages in
the top level directory of your site which have some paragraphs of
descriptive text. An "About Us" page would be a good start.
The META robots tag is correct.
I was initially concerned when I saw the words Traffic Zap in the
source code. Google prefers sites which do not use any form of
automated link popularity. However it appears that you only used their
free Meta Tag Generator, which is fine.
Apologies for my answer having a template appearance - it certainly
wasn't my intention.
Rob
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Clarification of Answer by
robertskelton-ga
on
30 Nov 2002 21:01 PST
Thanks for the nice rating.
Google ignores description tags. If the page is listed in the Google
Directory it will grab the description from there, because it comes
from an unbiased reviewer. The only other form of description provided
comprises of one or more snippets of text that contain the searched
for keywords.
The title and snippets of text come from the web page at the time
Google last visited. The page at the time Google last visited can be
seen by clicking on "cached" in the search results. Unless Google
thinks the content is constantly changing, it only visits websites
every month or so.
Google ignores META tags, probably due to the historical use by many
webmasters of creating false impressions of the content of their web
pages. A few years back it was quite normal to put "sex" in the META
keywords, because it was the most searched for word.
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