I submitted my site to all of 125 search engines way back in
August.Googles was included on the list. I cannot find my site
anywhere. It is, "www.baykitchenware.com". Can you help me find what
the problem is?

Yours truly,



Mrs. Vansie Morgan

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Request for Question Clarification by serenata-ga on 20 Sep 2003 06:00 PDT

Hello ~

You mention "all of 125 search engines". 

Did you submit to the search engines individually by hand? Or did you
use "one size fits all" submission software offered by another party?
As part of the "ITC Family", they submit to a lot of link farms, and
they use submission software which is not authorized by Google.

From Google's "Quality Guidelines - Basic Principles":
    "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."
  - ://www.google.com/webmasters/guidelines.html


And the link farms:
    "Don't participate in link schemes designed to increase your
     site's ranking or PageRank. In particular, avoid links to 
     web spammers or "bad neighborhoods" on the web as your own 
     ranking may be affected adversely by those links."
  - ://www.google.com/webmasters/guidelines.html


In addition, ITC is under investigation by the Federal Trade
Commission. The information on their investigation is here:
  - http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2003/07/itc.htm


Any of the above can keep you from being listed in the search engines.

Serenata

Hello Vansie,

I have searched google to see if it knows of your site.  And it does.

See the following links

http://216.239.59.104/search?q=cache:p_568rj5n_YJ:www.baykitchenware.com/+&hl=en&start=1&ie=UTF-8

://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=link:p_568rj5n_YJ:www.baykitchenware.com/

The first is googles cache (How the site looked when the googlebot last visited)

The second link shows other sites that google knows about that are linked to yours

Unfortunately with such a common subject such as kitchenware it is
very difficult to get a high rank in a search engine.  I would suggest
paying a professional to promote your site if your search engine
submissions do not succeed.  Another common way of getting higher
ranking is to get links on other peoples sites that already have a
high ranking in google.  This will involve searching around and
emailing the webmasters.  In return you can offer a link back to their
sites which in return will also increase your ranking.

Hope this helps and gives you some kind of answer

Cheers

Chris Spencer