Hi Brian Patrick ~
You didn't indicate whether or not your had submitted your site to
Google for indexing. If you have, please remember it can take as long
as 6-8 weeks or even longer to show up on Google's index.
From Google's "I've submitted my site to Google and it's still not
listed. Why?"
- ://www.google.com/webmasters/1.html#A1
"Google finds sites through a process known as "crawling" the web.
This involves robot software that follows hyperlinks from site to
site. Google currently looks at more than 3 billion URL's during the
crawl. The process may take several weeks to complete.
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."
The other reasons can be that your site wasn't available when Google
attempted to crawl it, but it will probably show up in the next crawl.
If you haven't submitted your site to Google yet and there aren't
other sites linking to yours, you can add your site on the Add URL
page here -
- ://www.google.com/addurl.html
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What You Can Do
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Before you add your site, however, you might want to review the
Webmaster Guidelines -
- ://www.google.com/webmasters/guidelines.html
Make sure you pay attention to the Design and Content Guidelines,
especially with reference to the use of ALT tags (I noticed you
weren't using ALT tags for your graphic images).
And make sure you submit your site by hand and "Don't use unauthorized
computer programs to submit pages, check rankings, etc. Such programs
consume computing resources and violate our terms of service. Google
does not recommend the use of products such as WebPosition Gold™ that
send automatic or programmatic queries to Google." (See Quality
Guidelines - Basic principles)
- ://www.google.com/webmasters/guidelines.html
Google also suggests you list your site with Yahoo! and DMOZ, "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." (See "What else can
I do to get listed in Google?")
- ://www.google.com/webmasters/1.html#A1
If you have followed the suggestions within the Guidelines and avoid
using methods they prohibit, then it's wait and watch until your site
gets listed in Google's search engine.
I know it seems to take forever, but there are billions of pages on
the internet, and indexing and updating the indexes does take some
time.
Best regards,
Serenata |
