Hello again everyone,
You all have been a great help to me on this site but i have come across a problem i can't work out (my meta tags) i cant seem to get on any search engine, can any one check them for me and tell me where i am going wrong www.sophiemacdougall.fsnet.co.uk
Also where is the best place to submit your URL.
Thanks again Emma xxx
P.S i have been trying to enter my site to search engines for about 3 months.

Dear Emma,
No decent search engines read the meta tags anymore - you need to submit to Google, then work on getting quality linkbacks to your site - read:

www.webmasterworld.com/forum3/2010.htm?highlight=months+successful+google

Regards,
Brent

OK i can understand that but is there a reason why my site would not get listed in search engines.?
www.sophiemacdougall.fsnet.co.uk
Can you please check for i have worked so hard on this site and it would be so up-setting if it didnt get listed.
Emma x

And the very last thing i am going to ask how do you know if your site has been visited by search engines??
Thanks again for all your help.
Emma.

Dear Emma,
Your server logs indicate who has spidered your site - I think you need to do a lot of reading, start at:

wwww.webmasterworld.com

I imagine you have an inordinate amount of free time, so this shouldn't be a problem.

Regards,
Brent

Hi Brent,
How do i log on to my server logs, whats the address? and by you looking at my site is there any indication why it would not be listed on search engines.
Emma x

I assume that your web space is free with a Freeserve account, you don't usually have access to logs or stats with free space accounts.

Bear in mind that it can take several weeks, sometimes months before a site is indexed and included in the search results.

Be realistic, if your site's subject is specialist or niché, you just aren't going to get the sort of hits that a site devoted to a very popular topic will get, there are just less people searching for thr subject in the first place. Converseley, if you have a site devoted to a very popular and common subject, which has many competing sites, getting it to come high in the results is very, very hard.

Not all search engines work in the same way and there are some things that effect the ratings that you don't have a great deal of control over, like: how many other sites link to yours and how many times the link from the search engine to your site was used.

All in all, it's a bit of a black art, but try this lot: www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&newwindow=1&q=search+engine+optimization+tips&btnG=Google+Search

Regards

Owen.

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Edited by - biohazart on 22 Feb 2003 05:53:21