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Subject: Making Our Website Visible
Category: Computers
Asked by: blanchie-ga
List Price: $2.00
Posted: 10 Oct 2002 14:09 PDT
Expires: 09 Nov 2002 13:09 PST
Question ID: 74992
We are attempting to make our website available on as many search
engines as posssible. Our website is www.sanjuans.tv...FOR EXAMPLE we
would like John Q Public to begin browsing and be looking for The San
Juan Islands & hopefully our website would pop up. Why isn't this
happening ?
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Subject: Re: Making Our Website Visible
Answered By: robertskelton-ga on 10 Oct 2002 15:05 PDT
 
Hi there,

You need to make your website more search engine spider friendly. When
the spider from Google, Altavista etc visits your site, at present
they won't find anything.

As beautiful as your site is, as far as a search engine spider is
concerned, it contains zero content. Search engines cannot read the
text within an image.

This is what I would do to get indexed by search engines:

- Include a META description tag on each page.

- Get rid of the pop-up that appears when someone goes to
http://www.sanjuans.tv/ - put all the content of home.html into a file
called index.html. If the size of the page is important, use
javascript that changes the size of the current page.

MAKESHIFT FIX
-------------
 
- On the index page, give an option of viewing a text only version of
the site. Most folk will ignore it, but the search engines will follow
the links and index the plain text content.

- On each plain text page, offer a big link to the pretty version of
the site.

BEST FIX
--------

- Redesign the entire site by replacing all the text images with plain
text. By using CSS and layers it is possible to make it look exactly
the same as it currently does.



Submit your website to search engines each time you make changes to
your site. Remember it can take a month or two for search engines to
pick up on any changes you make.

Any time you submit a website to search engines, use this tool at
Search Engine World to see what the spider sees:
http://www.searchengineworld.com/cgi-bin/sim_spider.cgi


Search strategy:
Personal experience


I hope this has helped. If amy part of my answer is unclear, just ask
for a clarification.

Best wishes,
robertskelton-ga
Comments  
Subject: Re: Making Our Website Visible
From: noodlehead-ga on 11 Oct 2002 09:04 PDT
 
Yea I think that would work..... also try going through a redirector...
i suggest 

www.dot.tk
youll get  www.(sitename).tk
its cool cuz it has a built in search engine in.... i dno but it worked for me


:)
Subject: Re: Making Our Website Visible
From: bayerwerke-ga on 28 Oct 2002 15:44 PST
 
Register with the Open Directory Project ( dmoz.org ).  It might take
some months, but it will eventually make your site much more prominent
to search engines.

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