secondtube Posted June 15, 2003 Report Share Posted June 15, 2003 i know in order for my site to show up on a search engine, i have to add meta tags. I have added both keywords and description, but i can't seem to pull up my site through any search engine.... Can someone look at my code on my opening page, and see if i'm doing something wrong.... Thanks in advance http://mountaincable.net/~cheesecake Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tooly Posted June 15, 2003 Report Share Posted June 15, 2003 site looks killer, but alas i dont have an answer to your question brother. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
secondtube Posted June 15, 2003 Author Report Share Posted June 15, 2003 thanks dude, i added Sanzwill from PJC..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bouche Posted June 15, 2003 Report Share Posted June 15, 2003 Search engines work in many different ways. The meta-tag approach does take some time though. You probably wouldn't see your keywords return hits for a bit. There's some articles here... I'm sure there's better documentation, but this may help. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paisley Posted June 15, 2003 Report Share Posted June 15, 2003 after you submit your site to different engines it takes a week or a few to get spidered and noticed, therefore listed... some engines take up to a month or more... if you submitted the site, it'll show up sooner or later... some engines just spider the whole web so they'll find your site, once again eventually.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
secondtube Posted June 15, 2003 Author Report Share Posted June 15, 2003 submit the site? hmmm.... i'd better do some more reading... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Musicface Posted June 15, 2003 Report Share Posted June 15, 2003 Yo 2nd! The most important thing is to submit to Google, which actually doesn't care much about meta tags for content, it just reads the text of the page. Submission is super-easy: http://www.google.com/addurl.html and you're in in a couple of days. Then Google's "spider" checks your site periodically, usually like once a month or something. If you make a major change, just resubmit. Other engines have their own submission pages, but since so many folks use Google now that's really the most important one IMHO. Peace, Mr. M. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
secondtube Posted June 15, 2003 Author Report Share Posted June 15, 2003 ok, i got the sites info on google... i'm trying to find where to add it on yahoo, but damned if i can find the bloody link... no wonder no one uses that engine, its so full of crap.... is there a generic site that allows you to add your site on a bunch of engines simulanously? If not, i guess i got some addin to do... excite, yahoo, webcrawler, some just off the top of my head.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Musicface Posted June 15, 2003 Report Share Posted June 15, 2003 Adding to Yahoo is often more of a pain than it's worth 'cus they don't list everything that gets added, but if you're interested here's the info: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/suggest/ There did used to be a bunch of "meta" submission services but the ones I used to use (the free ones anyway) are all gone. I'll dig around and see if I can find one that's still in business. - M. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arcane Posted June 17, 2003 Report Share Posted June 17, 2003 quote:Originally posted by Mr. Musicface: Yo 2nd! The most important thing is to submit to Google, which actually doesn't care much about meta tags for contentThat hasn't been my experience with Google, and I'm keeping a corporate site ranked. The thing is, if you don't screw up your meta tags, it doesn't hurt to have them there. It doesn't take a lot of time to insert them. Search engines aren't psychic--they have to be told by you or by someone else that your site exists. You can submit your URL, or someone can link to your site--preferably both. Keep in mind that Google does frequent shallow crawls with the Freshbot and periodic deep ones with the Deepbot. Pages that are linked too far down won't be picked up by the Freshbot--it's just skimming. The Freshbot hits the site I manage, ohh, every three days or so. Be patient--it could take two months to get up and running on an engine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
secondtube Posted June 17, 2003 Author Report Share Posted June 17, 2003 greg can you check my code on my sites opening page and suggest maybe something I can add, or correct, metatag wise.... http://mountaincable.net/~cheesecake Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. Musicface Posted June 17, 2003 Report Share Posted June 17, 2003 quote:Originally posted by arcane: That hasn't been my experience with Google, and I'm keeping a corporate site ranked. The thing is, if you don't screw up your meta tags, it doesn't hurt to have them there. It doesn't take a lot of time to insert them.Yeh, you're right it doesn't ignore them completely and I'm sure they help for ranking, but for the purposes of getting in the engine in the first place I don't think they make a tonne of difference. Actually here's a quote from an article on the subject FYI: "Google doesn't completely ignore meta tags as I claimed. They may give a very low weight to keyword tags (we'll never know how much). More importantly, the index will grab a description meta tag as a "fall-through" if a site's home page doesn't contain much if any usable text, nor alt tags on images. Another thing Google does in some cases is to use the description written by a human editor at the Open Directory (http://www.dmoz.org), if the site is listed there." from http://www.traffick.com/article.asp?aID=105 That said, I totally agree that it's not a huge deal to put 'em in. There are some easy examples on this page: http://searchenginewatch.com/examples/article.php/2168041 - M. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paisley Posted June 17, 2003 Report Share Posted June 17, 2003 my theory on search engines is you can't have too much advertising... every few months you should crack a beer or two, throw on some tunes and go to a site like THIS and sit there submitting away... if your goal is to be easily located... submitting to many engines also helps increase your rating on Google saying everyone uses Google is sort of true, but its kind of like saying everyone uses Windows... its not entirely true... on smaller search engines you have less competition to come up near the top of the list and reach into more countries re: your meta tags sectube: I'd throw in some Canada, Canadian, Ontario, Hamilton tags under keywords and take the "My" out of your description good work though, love the simple (small) code Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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