I am using SMF since 7 months and my all site URLs are not get indexed on google! Please help me\nI have my robots.txt fully configured and have a google site map signed in.
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After 5 years of running my site I am getting and average of 1000 hits per month.\n\nTry free banner exchange, try mentioning your site in your discussion forum, or even in yahoo answers like I did over here. even if your site is listed in Google it will not be displayed on the top. So the site is as if not listed.
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Here is my standard suggestions that might help: \n\nOptional but very important:\n\nA - Own your-domain-name-dot-com\nB - Host your site on a reliable server\n\n1 - Shorten the title to 55 chars \n2 - Add the robots tag \n3 - Place the robots.txt in your root on your server \n4 - Get rid of the js in the code and put it in an external file \n5 - Use css instead of color, size and font tags \n5 - Change the link buttons or js links in to text links \n6 - Make sure to have a site map page \n7 - Make sure you have 404 page\n8 - At the bottom of each page use menus as text links \n9 - Make sure your page code is not bigger than 100 K \n10 - Submit your site to ODP and Yahoo Dir, make sure to select the right cat\n11 - Pay special attention to your content \n12 - Try to get as much as relevant links you can \n13 - Read each search engines guide lines and follow them strictly\n14 - Don't spam\n15 - Don't use doorway pages\n16 - Don't cloak\n17 - Always come and ask for advice on this board\n18 - And pray hard that the big G appreciates all your efforts \n\nThis will help as long as you follow each rule here ;)\n\na few additions to this helpful list:\n\n* use wordtracker.com to research the proper keywords for your site.\n\n* include your keywords in the alt tags of images.\n\n* use the H1 tag for page headings (you can alter the way h1 displays text with CSS. . .).\n\n* submit to gimpsy.com and goguides.org (these are free directories)
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◙◙ Promote Your Site ◙◙\n\n◙ You need to submit your site to many search engines. Search engines will not accept your site if it is listed on free-for-all list sites. They will not accept it if it is a newbie site that is about them only. Think of a subject and write about it. It can take 2 weeks to 6 months or more before they list you. Even if they do accept your site you'll need to check your listing occasionally to make certain it is still listed. If a site gets no traffic or isn't updated regularly they will delte your listing. If you are a serious webmaster you will need to read about site optimisation at http://www.searchengines.com/ Another great site is http://www.searchenginewatch.com/ Search engine submission tips (lots of info) http://www.searchenginewatch.com/webmasters/\n\n◙ You'll find about 400 search engines here.\n\n► http://dwight.clickthesky.com/search/\n\n◙ There are web sites that claim to submit your site to hundreds of search engines at once. The only one I recommend is http://www.dmoz.org/ The other search engines use this directory to supplement their own directories. Youdd it to google here http://www.google.com/addurl/\n\n◙ If you have a Geocities home page list it in Geocities Homepage Directory http://pages.yahoo.com/ You'll find help for that here http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/geo/gmembers/
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My dear friend, search engine hits don't come overnight. It takes a lot of time for a website to feature on great seach engines like Yahoo and Google. I own a website that I created at about the end of January this year, and only last week I found it listed at number 29 only after all my keywords have been searched for at once! You have to be patient!\n\nWhen search engines build their powerful databases, they perform what is called indexing. This is done by special software called "bots". They start at the most popular sites on the net, and then follow every possible link on those pages, then all the next possible links, etc. They spider almost the whole web like this.\n\nFor those reasons, Yahoo might not know about you if you don't have a listed website that is linking to you. I would suggest you go and surf for other websites of your kind and add your page to their list of links. (Search engines also judge the popularity of your site by how many other sites are linking to you.)\n\nWhile you are waiting, there are some things you can do to make your website feature quicker. I don't know how familiar you are with HTML meta tags and the search-engine friendliness of your page, but I'll explain it anyway.\n\nMeta tags is ordinary HTML tags that you place inside your website code. They serve the primary purpose of giving information about your website. Some of them give the keywords that you would like your site to be searched for, others provide a short description of your site which will be shown on your listing if you feature on Yahoo. There are countless other meta tags which I have yet to explore, but they make your site a great deal more search-engine friendly.\n\nI have some really good software that helps me make my site more search-engine friendly. It is easy-to-use and completely virus-free (trust me). Best of all, it is free! It contains a complete explanation of meta tags, and also provides tips on selecting the right keywords for your page. It also has a feature that can check your pages for any errors or other things that would make search engines not like you. You can obtain it at http://www.webceo.com/\n\nHope my advice helped...
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The previous answers are absolute nonsense and do not even answer the question.\n\nYour feeling that it is the url is correct and also the product pages are more than 2 or 3 url hops away from the home page.\n\nYou can solve this problem easily by doing three things.\n\n1. Use Apache's mod_rewrite to make the urls search engine friendly. http://www.phpfreaks.com/tutorials/23/0.php\n\n2. Create a 'conventional sitemap' on your site for the product pages and link to it from every page. http://www.seo-blog.com/sitemaps.php\n\n3. Use 'Google Sitemaps' to submit all your pages for crawling. https://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/docs/en/about.html\n\nPerform the tasks in the order of 1, 2, and 3 and do not be tempted to leave one of them out :)
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Hi \n\nDo you have the gov permitions for that ?? Also , try to have more links for re-routing if they cant find what they look for on your site. Anyway write me , cause i just saw a couple of holes on your website , you may want to secure it more !!!!
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I think it needs traffic to get indexed\n\nedit\nalso check this\n\nhttp://www.searchengineforums.com/apps/webmaster.forums/action::thread/forum::yahoo/thread::1142926833/
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First off, when adding your link to search engines, don't stop at just the top ten or just five of them. I have a personal website and it is listed in over 1500 search engines. The question isn't why the answer to it though is simple enough. Each direct link that you have coming into your site gives you a better chance at having a higher page rank. You see your page rank at:\n\nhttp://www.checkpagerank.com/\n\nPage rank is calculated based on the importance of the website. Each link going into the website is a vote counted towards your page rank. It also helps to have higher page ranking websites link to your site as well.\n\nIn total the more links you have going to your site, the more importance your website has on the Internet as a whole.\n\nDon't stop. Keep submitting your links to every search engine that you can possibly find. If you need more help you can contact me if needed but I'm sure you can figure that out. Finding search engines to submit your site to is easy.\n\nFind people who are willing to exchange links. Or, otherwise known as reciprocal linking. It's best to find people willing to trade links with your site that are around the same area of expertise. Another words, you wouldn't want to trade links with someone that has a website based off of tractor supplies when your website is based solely upon homeade fudge. If you had a food website, you would want more food websites linking to it.\n\nTo arrange all of your reciprocal links on your site, it's best to make a page called 'Links' to put all the links on that page. Remember, it's not only search engines that get your website listed at the top. Reciprocal linking is another part of that.\n\nThere are a lot of other gimics you can use to get links to your site, but to give a suggestion on how to start..\n\nThink of it like this, people using the Internet are bugs or flies and your website is a spiderweb. You want to make the biggest spiderweb you could possibly make. There's two major ways in doing that. \n\nBy word. Tell people and have them tell other people and have those people pass the word.\nBy links. Links are everything. People spend an average of 2 minutes per website when surfing, give or take that is an average amount of time. The more links you have coming into your website, the more people will acknowledge your website as value of importance.\n\nTo read more on page ranking you can go here for a vast amount of information. I believe that this page should have the answers to many questions you might still have.\n\nhttp://www.iprcom.com/papers/pagerank/
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Check this article out\n\nhttp://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=34397\n\nConsider creating and submitting a detailed site map of your pages using Google Sitemaps. Google Sitemaps is an easy way for you to submit all your URLs to the Google index and get detailed reports about the visibility of your pages on Google. With Google Sitemaps, you can automatically keep us informed of all of your current pages and of any updates you make to those pages. Please note that submitting a Sitemap doesn't guarantee that all pages of your site will be crawled or included in our search results.\n\nWhat is your website anyway?
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Hi, most noteworthy, you need backlinks pointing to your domain.. \n\nOf equal importance, you need to add your description and keyword meta tags(to every page), or it will not get indexed properly on any search engine.
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No, you are not automatically in the yahoo engine. Even though sites get added from web trawls, this can take a while.\n\nYahoo has been notorious in the past for taking anything between 6 and 12 months to actually list a site and that has been submitting to the engine through their own signup.\n\nType "site:yoururl.com" in the yahoo engine.\n\nThis will return results that have anything to do with that url.
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Metatags and keywords are hardly used by search engines these days to index/find sites for listings.  There might be a couple small ones, but for the most part, that's old school.  I personally wouldn't make the effort...
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Check and make sure you have a file called index.htm or .html or .asp or whatever your using to design your site.  Most web servers require a file with a certain file name to be the "base" page of you site, so that when someone enters your URL with no filename (ex: www.mysite.com; instead of www.mysite.com/index.htm) the server knows where to send them.\n\nAlos, try clearing your browser cache with a refresh (or hit F5); I have pages that take a while to work even when all the files are there.  The AOL browser is the worst about it.\n\nGood luck.
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...and mine shuts down when i type in an address.  so far, the links are working.  i just downloaded some updates, we'll see if it helps matters.  or, you could just download mozilla firefox as an alternate browser.
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Here are the two extremes. Most sites fall anywhere in between:\n\nNew website with no or few external links and is not updated frequently: 6-12 months. (Sometimes less but usually only main page, rarely shows up for any results pages.)\n\nPopular site with lots of links and has been around for years and is updated on a regular bases: Indexed Everyday or several times a day (news sites).\n\nTip: Try getting as many links as possible. Even start dropping a link to your site on Yahoo answers will help (when appropriate, no spam please).
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It depends allot who your Registrar is.The domain i have through Register.com and has a option called advanced URL forwarding that lets me type in the domain or sub-domain names and then point it to any URL seamlessly so everything looks in-house
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Once I discovered this difficulty I stopped using the sitebuilder. It was too irritating.\nMuch easier to use an HTML editor and get axactly what you want without using page wizards, templates, etc.\nSave your pages to your HDD, zap the sitebuilder, start again properly.