Hello Tamsie,
Congratulations on getting started with your own web presence! You
have a good structure started, now all you need is some content and a
bit of notice from the Googlebot. The better your content, the more
likely you are to get (and stay) noticed by the Googlbot. I hope
you're enjoying your experiment in web design!
As robertskelton mentioned above, one way to get noticed by the
Googlebot is to submit your URL. It's important to keep in mind,
however, that submitting your URL is
1) Not guaranteed to get you listed:
"We add thousands of new sites to our index each time we crawl the
Web, but if you like, you may submit your URL as well. Submission is
not necessary and does not guarantee inclusion in our index. Given the
large number of sites submitting URLs, it's likely your pages will be
found in an automatic crawl before they make it into our index through
the URL submission form. We DO NOT add all submitted URLs to our
index, and cannot predict when or if they will appear."
Submitting your site
://www.google.com/webmasters/1.html
...and 2) Not instantaneous:
"Depending on the timing of the submission and of our crawl, the
entire process can take between six and eight weeks."
How long does the Google robot take to index a URL once it's been
submitted?
://www.google.com/webmasters/faq.html#delay
Your site looks to be quite new. If you've not submitted your site,
or have only recently done so, you may be in for a bit of a wait.
There are other ways to help you get listed!
1) Ask your friends to link to you:
"When a URL is submitted to Google, we look for it in our next crawl.
If you've already submitted your URL, your site could easily appear in
our new index, which will go up when the current crawl is completed.
However, if no other site links to yours, it may be difficult for our
crawler to find you. Conversely, if many sites link to your page,
there is a good chance we will find you without your submitting your
URL."
I've submitted my site to Google and it's still not listed. Why?
://www.google.com/webmasters/1.html
2) Submit your site to Yahoo! and DMOZ:
"Google partners on the Web include Yahoo! and Netscape. If you are
having difficulty getting listed in the Google index, you may want to
consider submitting your site to either or both of these directories.
You can submit to Yahoo! by visiting
http://docs.yahoo.com/info/suggest/. You can submit your site to
Netscape's Open Directory Project (DMOZ) by visiting www.dmoz.org.
Once your site is included in either of these directories, Google will
often index your site within six to eight weeks."
What else can I do to get listed in Google?
://www.google.com/webmasters/1.html
For additional help, including tips for creating good content, getting
links and staying listed, why not try the Google User Forum?
google.public.support.general
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=google.public.support.general
I hope this answers your question! If you need further assistance,
simply ask for clarification. I'll be glad to help.
--Missy
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Request for Answer Clarification by
tamsie-ga
on
23 Jun 2003 06:32 PDT
Hi Missy,
Thanks. Let me see if I understand: the reason Google doesn't "find"
my web site is that the site really has no content at this point: it's
just a way for me to practice learning web-building skills.
Therefore, there is no reason the public at large would want to locate
it, and as for my friends, I will just need to tell them the url. Is
this correct? If I understand you correctly, then when I "google" my
own name, and come up with seemingly unimportant news items (minutes
of a school board meeting where I made a request on behalf of the PTA,
etc.), the reason likely is that Google "finds" these items because
they are associated with a recognized site, e.g., the university, or
the local school board site. If I understand you correctly, Google
doesn't "list" every single web site, and a personal site with no real
content would be a waste of resources. This makes sense, and I will
set about developing some actual content! Thank you very much. Tamsie
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