Why is my site: www.dougsalin.com not showing up in google.  I have
meta tags, I submitted it months ago, and still nothing!

Hi there,

There are two reasons...

Problem 1
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Google has indexed your site:
://www.google.com/search?q=+site:www.dougsalin.com+dougsalin

...but not all of it. A possible cause is the meta tag on your index
page. It says:

<META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="index, no follow">

It would be best to change it to <META NAME="ROBOTS" CONTENT="index,
follow">

If you want the pages Client List and Biography to be listed, I
suggest submitting those two pages individually, ASAP.


Problem 2
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All of the pages Google has indexed have a negative aspect which will
dramatically reduce the number of times your site appears in search
results - no text (except for the line Sign my GuestBook). Google
cannot read text contained within images. Therefore at present Google
has nothing to work with. This will be improved when Google indexes
the Client List and Biography pages, but the best thing you can do is
include some text on your index page, or have an alternative index
page which is text only.


Best wishes,
robertskelton-ga

That's a very goo dpoint made in the answer above. As you site is
defineately indexed in Google, you may have felt you weren't listed as
you aren't getting any hits from it. However, being in Google is
meaningless in your case, because there is nothing linked to you
beyond your address. With the exception of trying to see whether
you're listed, there's little reason for searching for your URL.
Customer's won't. Another factor beyond the lact of anything in your
pages for Google to index, is the lack of any links to your site.
Google partially bases your search results on your PageRank, which is
affected by the number fo indexed pages that link to you. Google knows
of none at this time.