Hello,
I've got a website - however - I want things, the items, to appear in google.
a) how do I do this?
b) How do you play the google game - make it appear that these things appear relatively high when someone searches?
― Computer Question, Tuesday, 13 April 2004 08:22 (twenty-two years ago)
A pedant writes in with the boring correct answer:
Somewhere on Google's site there's a submit form that lets you tell them your URL. You should start appearing a couple of weeks after that.
Appearing *high* on Google is trickier, partly because Google regularly change their search engine to stop people who work out the tricks for appearing high on Google.
― caitlin (caitlin), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 08:28 (twenty-two years ago)
some basic advice:
submit to Google using their add url
build content AND update content [the more frequent you update your content - the greater chance of search engines robots of crawling your website, also try to include a blog element to your website - to aid this.]
make sure your webpages on your website are linked well to each other: i.e navigation - not only this aids search engine robots it will help your users navigate and use your website. Google takes into consideration which pages are linked to each other - including your own website.
use meta tags effectively, there are meta tag generators available if your don't know how to do this. Google use info on meta tags, mostly title and description, less so for a list of keywords.
on the title tag [what appears at the top of the browser, and what search engines take into consideration when fetching search results] -- ensure words describe accurately each page
submit to dmoz/ open directory - this is free, and will ensure your website is listed and visible in many search engines/ directories and meta search engines - throughout the internet.
build an interesting website, that others will link to - more links, higher google page rank = higher position in search results
submit also to yahoo search - as they run their own search engine these days.
DON'T
don't abuse meta tags - with inappropriate words
don't keyword stuff your website - with popular keywords - that don't reflect your website theme/ content
don't use "link farms" where links are NOT organised on a relevant theme
Search Engine Algorithms are smart - if you abuse them - they will find out.
Follow the basic advice above, and anyone can get their website to rank well on specific keywords in search engines.
I have a couple of websites, and can rank higher in search results compared to companies that have massive resources - because they don't follow the simple guidelines as noted above.
― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 10:32 (twenty-two years ago)
As far as I know, Google gives virtually no weight to meta-tags, because they're so abused, but yeah, it's good practice to use them I suppose.
― N. (nickdastoor), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 10:44 (twenty-two years ago)
Meta Tags include Title and Description. Description tag is used by Google - to retrieve search results, therefore this aids search results ranking.
The Title tag - is a very important element - of ranking well in search results.
Clarification, the third tier of meta-tags "keywords" - correct most search engines don't use - because of the blatant abuse.
― DJ Martian (djmartian), Tuesday, 13 April 2004 10:52 (twenty-two years ago)