Help!

My website at  www.spacerelics.com  has not been picked up by Google,
despite the inclusion of appropiate key words on our website pages.

I have also registered  www.spacerelics.com  directly with Google
three times since the launch of the site in March, 2003, to no avail.

Does someone have the expertise to go to our website, and see where
the problem lies, and what specific action needs to be taken?

Many thanks!

Hi 30092 ~

In answer to your question: The only flash Google indexes are links
within the flash file. "We're not going to index flash directly, but
we figured it would help webmasters to follow Flash links" (GoogleGuy,
October 29, 2001, WebmasterWorld discussion thread "Google Indexes
Flash")
   - http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum10003/1456.htm

In the case of spacerelics.com, the flash links lead to more flash,
but nothing of substance to index. In addition, you have added a "no
follow" robots text in your header tags, so if a search engine is to
follow those instructions, there is nothing to index, and nothing to
follow.


Google offers a plethora of information on how to develop a
Google-friendly website. Web designers who use the recommendations and
suggestions have no problems getting their site listed.

You should start with "How do I get my site listed on Google?" and
Google's recommendation about using splash screens in "Reasons your
site may not be included"
   - ://www.google.com/webmasters 

and Google's Webmaster Guidelines, especially the Technical Guidelines
and the suggestion for using a text browser to see what the Googlebot
sees when it visits your page
   - ://www.google.com/webmasters/guidelines.html 

Google's Facts & Fiction, especially the last item with the types of
files that Google does index (you'll notice Flash isn't there)
   - ://www.google.com/webmasters/facts.html 

Google's User Support Discussion Forum
   - http://groups.google.com/groups?q=google.public.support.general

and pay particular attention to the discussions about Google and
Flash, such as this one,
   - http://groups.google.com/groups?q=Flash+group:google.public.support.general&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&group=google.public.support.general&selm=f4252bec.0201281338.33e1886b%40posting.google.com&rnum=1


Another resource is the forum at WebmasterWorld.com, where I did a
search on "flash" (without the quotation marks) and got the admission
from GoogleGuy (who is a real Google employee who does comment in the
discussion forums at WebMaster World:
   - http://www.webmasterworld.com 

and Danny Sullivan's Search Engine World:
   - http://www.searchengineworld.com 


In addition, Google recommends submitting your site to the Open
Project Directory (dmoz.org) and Yahoo! from which they also obtain
sites for indexing. "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." (from Google's "What
else can I do to get listed in Google?")
   - ://www.google.com/webmasters/1.html#B2

You may have more luck with DMOZ who may index your site by your
description metatags, but if not, you really need to give search
engines something to actually list.

Lastly, do pay attention to Google's suggestions in the Guidelines
about links TO your site, which will help you get listed.

I hope this helps. Getting listed in Google or any search engine isn't
difficult, especially if you follow the recommendations that Google
offers to help.


Good luck,
Serenata