Phil --
First, note that Google Answers researchers are not employees of
Google, so we can't answer questions about the search engine with any
"inside information". That said, many of us run multiple web pages
and try to stay on top of search issues.
Search engines run large databases with millions of pages, so it takes
a while for them to catch up to new entries. Your web page was only
registered on September 27, 2004, according to the Whois database:
Registrar of Record: TUCOWS, INC.
Record last updated on 27-Sep-2004.
Record expires on 27-Sep-2005.
Record created on 27-Sep-2004
You may well have posted the information on the web page later --
which would delay the appearance in any of the popular search engines.
For Google the instructions on submitting URLs notes that, "once
your site is included in either of these directories, Google will
often index your site within six to eight weeks" -- which would mean
sometime in December.
Google
"How Do I Get My Site Listed on Google" (2004)
://www.google.com/webmasters/1.html
STEPS TO TAKE FOR LISTING
=========================
There are at least 3 things that you want to do to ensure a Google
listing (and don't forget that there are other search engines too.
Even Google's webmaster pages suggest a separate submission to
Yahoo.):
1. submit the URL to Google's addURL and the DMOZ directory
://www.google.com/addurl.html
http://www.dmoz.org/
2. It's well-known that Google's initial innovation in page-ranking
was to determine how popular a website was by the number of links to
it. As the webmaster guidelines indicate, make sure that know that
you exist and request reciprocal links. In Google's own words: "The
best way to ensure Google finds your site is for your page to be
linked from lots of pages on other sites. Google's robots jump from
page to page on the Web via hyperlinks, so the more sites that link to
you, the more likely it is that we'll find you quickly."
Google
"Webmaster Guidelines," (2004)
://www.google.com/webmasters/guidelines.html
Unfortunately the one web site that lists your company DOES NOT have a
web link to your home page.
3. Your website (or sites) are easy to navigate and don't appear to
violate any of the guidelines. In addition to the Webmaster
Guidelines linked above, here are a few pages to read and test your
web coding against the guidelines:
"My Web Pages are Not Currently Listed" (2004)
://www.google.com/webmasters/2.html
"Google Facts and Fiction"
://www.google.com/webmasters/facts.html
"SEOs"
://www.google.com/webmasters/seo.html
A FINAL NOTE
=============
Another step that I usually recommend is checking the page coding at
the W3C Markup Validation Service. Too often we see pages that were
created in Microsoft FrontPage which fail the quality checks at this
free site. The Javascript errors can make the text impossible for a
searchbot to read. You can check your page coding here, though some
of the non-conformance "errors" may be advisable but not NECESSARY
(like the use of ALT tags):
W3C Markup Validation Service
http://validator.w3.org/
Best regards,
Omnivorous-GA |
