Search Engine Update

MrsM_4

Hi guys

I would be really pleased if there's anyone out there can help me.

I recently made myself a website - just to proove i could do it - you know!

It wasn't about anything in particular - more a test. More recently however my local school had a bonfire night to raise funds and I had hoped to resurect my website to help promote this - so I did...

Beautiful website all about the firework display, parking, ticket information etc etc..

Trouble was - Dear old Google etc was still picking it up with the previous information, and not the search words, bonfire, nov 5th etc.

Time went past and I thought in time it would pick up the new search words, but even though I have changed the meta tag, named Keywords and title to bonfire bonfire bonfire, the only way this site will come up is using my name which it was about previously - ahhhhhh :mad:

Bonfire at school thankfully went really well dispite my pathetic efforts on the web front - but frustration still prevails - how do I get my preferred search engine to pick up this site with it's new contents -

please help me - next stop "the samaritans!"

albertross_2

Nothing you can do apart from wait for it to reindex your site, metatags have limited or no effect..

http://www.google.com/addurl/

MrsM_4

Thanks albertross

I've waited, weeks, i've waited months, are we talking years here?!

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spurs1234

Hi google bots have alot of work todo and will only get to you when they can, if they feel your website isnt important enough then they will only visit once every couple of months (if that) Mine currenty gets a visit twice a month and even that isnt enough.

The truth is that googles bot's rely on links from other sites to yours. !

What if you havent got any ?

Well it will take longer for the bot to find you again,

Why ?

Because when google bot finds a website it looks at all the links and visits them too.

For Example if you had a link to your site on http://www.ebaumsworld.com/ where the bot visits everyday because of the sites high page ranking then the bot would visit you much more too and in time would push you up the search engine

In a round about way its like that anyway....:D

Take a look Here for articles on SEO theres a new article most days

http://www.v-666.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=18

You can also sign up to somewhere like

http://www.linkmarket.com/

to enhance your link status

spurs1234

I've waited, weeks, i've waited months, are we talking years here?!

This can take upto 6 months - 2 years to get a constant traffic to your site and get a better Page ranking and backs links, but thats if you work hard at it.

If you just leave your site and not working on promoting it ! Well it will never change as albertross said meta tags play a little part in the matter now days

Also a little tip when swaping links get a mixture of high and low PR sites other wise Google's bot will dismiss you a spam

*PR = Page Rank ( availiable from your google toolbar or http://www.seologs.com/pr-check/pagerank.html?url=www.BioMarinex.com )

MrsM_4

Thank Spurs1234

bit disheartening isn't it - not such an instant advertising tool that I thought it might be!

Oh well, if I leave it there until next year, perhaps it will be coming up in the search results!!

Thank you very much for your explanation - didn't find Google itself very helpful at all!

kind regards

Mrsm
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spacker_2

MrsM wrote:

Thank Spurs1234

bit disheartening isn't it - not such an instant advertising tool that I thought it might be!

Oh well, if I leave it there until next year, perhaps it will be coming up in the search results!!

Thank you very much for your explanation - didn't find Google itself very helpful at all!

kind regards

Mrsm
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You can actually block google from viewing your site and it will be washed from their database then just re-submit the url, Ive done it loads of times.

http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=35301&topic=8459

spurs1234

Yeah it does take time but just leaving it will never work try and get as many links as you can and offer sites a "link swap" some will accept some wont.

If you do the back links properly there is no need to submit to google because it will find you the natural organic search way :rolleyes:

spurs1234

not such an instant advertising tool that I thought it might be!

No not exactly but there are tools that can help you on your way.
As recommended by the "experts" there isnt any as good as this
http://www.seoelite.com/

However this is just a help tool and there is still ALOT of work todo.

MrsM_4

on google webmaster tools, it says my sitemap has errors, but that my site has been "site verified"

does that mean anything - looked at the sitemap thing, but was sunk by technology, didn't know what it meant

mm

spurs1234

Yeah site map is a way to help the google bots it basicly means you tell it about each one of your pages and then it gives you detailed info about traffic and things, i havent set it up on any of my sites yet so im affraid i cant got into deep detail on how to use it.

If you want to check your site for the common errors you can go here

http://www.v-666.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=72

But make sure you back up you make a back up before editing anything it says is wrong. I found out the hardway :rolleyes: