my site is called www.nigelosner.com   Why doesn't it show up on
Google? It shows up on other search engines.  It used to show up on
Google but disappeared some months ago.

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Request for Question Clarification by robertskelton-ga on 27 Jul 2003 15:58 PDT

Was the site down for any period of time?

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Clarification of Question by bolgin-ga on 28 Jul 2003 12:53 PDT

I don't remember it being down at the time it came off Google.  Im
sorry I can't be more helpful.  I think there might have been a day
some time when I couldn't access it, but I honestly can't remember,
and it might just have been the sound.

Google places importance on outside links linking to your site.
Without some other sites linking to you trying to get listed is
worthless. It sounds like you need to get some other related sites to
link to yours then once that's in place you can go ahead and resubmit
to Google. For more info see Google's page at
://www.google.com/webmasters/  You also may want to read over the
basic guidelines here ://www.google.com/webmasters/guidelines.html

I looked at your source code and you may want to add some meta tags
and improve on your title tags. While a lot of sites ignore Meta tags
the title tag is very important and should include 2 or 3 keyphrases
so the search engines can index your site correctly. For more info on
meta tags see
http://www.philb.com/metatag.htm
or http://searchenginewatch.com/webmasters/article.php/2167931

Another way of getting your site banned is to be associated with "link
farms" if you haven't done that, then that's good. Also, submitting
multiple domain names can get you banned as well.

Also, to keep up with the search engines I recommend you subscribe to
this searche engine optimization expert's free ezine it's excellent
and you'll learn a lot that will help you with your site, go to
http://www.highrankings.com and enlighten you on all the major search
engines. It's worth it's weight in gold and it's absolutely free. I
love it.

Don't underestimate the power of linking....to Google it's everything.
If other sites link to yours they feel you must have a good site and
something to say. No man is an island.

Merle-ga

Very helpful.  Thank you.