Hi David,
A good sign of doing things right is being listed on other search
engines. Your site has already been indexed by two of the biggies:
AlltheWeb:
http://www.alltheweb.com/urlinfo?q=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.ensigngames.com&c=web&cs=utf-8
Inktomi (via HotBot):
http://www.hotbot.com/default.asp?prov=Inktomi&query=%22Questions+needed+for+FAQ%27s+I+am+building%22&ps=&loc=searchbox&tab=web
Being visited by the GoogleBot is a good sign. It means that you
should expect to appear in Google search engine results after they
next update their index. No-one except for Google search engineers can
tell you when that would be, and they never tell anyone in advance.
The index used to be updated roughly once a month, and the update
process (fondly known as the Google Dance) typically took a couple of
days. Last time the update was later than usual, and the Dance went on
for weeks. Predicting the next update is too tricky at present.
The best place to read discussions on Google is WebMasterWorld. When
the next update begins, this is where you'll read about it first:
http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum3/
GoogleGuy is a Google employee who contributes to the forum. His
comments are the closest to official answers about Google indexing you
can get, and someone collects all of his postings here:
GoogleGuy Says
http://www.markcarey.com/googleguy-says/
Now, meta-tags.
A long time ago the keyword and description meta-tags were very
important to search engines. Not any more, because of the amount of
wrong information webmasters used to stuff into them.
Some webmasters believe that Google indexes meta-keywords (I
personally don't), but even so, they accept that Google places so
little importance on meta-keywords that they have become redundant.
There is no longer any point in using the meta-keyword tag.
The details about Google's search appliance virtually state that the
public web search doesn't look at meta keywords:
"As with the public Google search engine, the Appliance tracks anchor
text and links to and from pages. Unlike the public version, it also
indexes all meta fields in HTML files, including author, description,
keywords, generator (inserted by some HTML editors), and Dublin Core
tags. "
http://www.searchtools.com/analysis/google-appliancev1.html
Google only uses meta-descriptions in rare circumstances (like when
the search keywords are only in a link to your site, and nowhere
else). It is good policy to still use the meta-description tag (for
example, it can be what editors at directories see when you submit
your site), especially on the home page.
The most important places for a keyword to appear are now:
-title
-URL
-H1 tags
-text on the page
-links to your site
Once in each, plus two or three times within the page's regular text
is usually best.
Search strategy: personal experience
Best wishes,
robertskelton-ga |
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