Dear Nick,
First of all, and that is very important - Google Answers is not
linked with the Google Index, and I am not a Google employee. I am,
though, sort of an expert on search engine submission, and in
particular in Google submission.
Google doesn't work like many other search engines, which are
human-edited, or based on keywords. Google has a robot, which crawls
between sites' links to other sites, thereafter indexing them.
Moreover, as much as a site is linked by other sites, it has more
chances to be indexed.
You site is obviously crawled and linked, by not to many sites - it is
in fact linked to relatively non-important - link farms and link
exchange schemes. That means, that your PageRank is inferior to others
who have the same searched for keywords, and who are linked to more
reputable sites.
Because of the way the search engine works - crawling through links
that other sites link to you (these links are called "back links" -
linking back to your site) having keywords or submitting the site to
Google are usually not enough. You have to be linked to other sites.
So, the next important step you have to take in order to ensure a
Google indexing, is to convince as many other site holders to link you
site to theirs. For example, commerce sites, where people get tips for
their activity, erlevant directories of businesses, etc (some of these
site may ask you to link theirs in return, that's the way it is).
You can also "advertise" your site in Google Groups
(http://groups.google.com/) that discuss e-commerce issues, thus
maintaining the option that people would voluntarily link to you.
However, be careful not to flood the lists or to spam them - this will
create bad image or worse - make people complain to your ISP.
Another fool proof method to be linked and indexed is to insert
yourself to the Google Directory (http://directory.google.com/). All
you have to do is choose a category in the directory, that would
describe you the best, and using the "submit a site" option.
Of course, having good keywords does not hurt. However, it is much
more important that you'll have good content, that fits those
keywords. In your case, except the FAQ, I see no articles, no attempt
to produce the type of information that others would seek and that
would bring them to your site.
You can find more information on Google's index at ://www.google.com/webmasters
I hope that answered your question. Please contact me for
clarifications on the answer. I'd be pleased to clarify my answer. |
Request for Answer Clarification by
sailingwave-ga
on
26 May 2004 05:48 PDT
Of course, having good keywords does not hurt. However, it is much
more important that you'll have good content, that fits those
keywords. In your case, except the FAQ, I see no articles, no attempt
to produce the type of information that others would seek and that
would bring them to your site.
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