| 1. You never made
any valid submission, nor made the effort
to get listed in any directories.
As soon as a website is complete, you are
going to want to begin submitting your site
to the engines to get spidered. It can be
tedious work. For a small investment, you
can pay someone to do it for you, or to
buy software that will do the process in
an automated fashion.
You are also going to want to list your
site in the Open
Directory Project, which is the framework
google uses in spidering. Some directories
are a bit more difficult to get listed.
Looksmart, for example, has an organization
called zeal (and the volunteers who work
for it are called "zealots") who
do their indexing, site submission, and
site ratings. An individual cannot submit
a site, unless they have passed the necessary
test to become a "zealot". (Staff
at Lions Share Media have passed and are
qualified "zealots".).
2. Your web site URLs are embedded
in JavaScript.
This is the most common reason
why your web sites are not indexed by the
Search Engines. If your web site URLs are
embedded in JavaScript, most of the Search
Engines will not recognize and index these
pages. If you're serious about getting your
web sites to be indexed by the Search Engines
and get a good position on the MAJOR Search
Engines such as AltaVista, Lycos, Yahoo
and many others, please consider changing
your web site style, either by putting your
links in simple html format or making alternative
links at the bottom of your page just for
the Search Engines.
3. There are no or little content
on your web pages
If your web site was designed for
"Nice looking" which means it
contains only the Image, Flash, Java, Image
map etc, and there is no actual text information
(or just little text) on your web pages,
your web pages will be ignored by the Search
Engines because Search Engines will index
the web sites, which contain valuable information.
Please put any real useful information in
text format to your web pages. When it comes
to getting indexed, err on the side of information
overload, rather than too little text.
4. Your Pages Are not Cross-Linked.
Not all search engine spiders visit
your website from your main index page (index.html).
If you have not linked each of your pages
with all your other pages, you stand the
risk of having engines indexing only one
or two of your pages. Just add text links
at the bottom of your pages to all your
other pages.
5.· Your web site is a Frame
style
Most major Search Engines do not
support Frame style of the web sites. If
you wish your web sites to be indexed by
the Search Engines and get good results,
please consider changing your web sites
to a non-frame style.
6. You are using the incorrect
Html Tags
<HTML>
<HEAD>
<TITLE></TITLE>
<META name="description" content="put
a short description here">
<META name="keywords" content="put
your keywords here">
</HEAD>
<BODY BGCOLOR=FFFFFF>
Put your contents here ....
</BODY>
</HTML>
Some Search Engines such as AltaVista and
Google completely ignore websites that have
invalid html tag sequences. Also, please
make sure you use the close tags correctly.
For e.g. <font> requires that you
have </font>, <table> requires
a </table>. Your browser may display
it correctly, but if you want the page to
be indexed, check your codes and put them
in order.
7. You are using a Virtual Domain
Redirection Service
If you are using an Internet Redirection
Service to make it easy for people to remember
your website address, please do not use
the Redirection web site address for your
submission, use your real web site URL to
submit to the Search Engines. Lot's of times,
they will find your site anyways, but why
make it harder for the bots?
8. You are using an abnormal .html
(or .htm) file format
If the contents of your web pages
are generated at real time by using a script
such as .cgi, .asp etc rather than a normal
.html (or .htm) file, you are taking the
risk that your web sites may be ignored
by the Search Engines, because Search Engines
want to index the web pages where they knew
what the information is.
9. You are using Meta Refresh
and Meta Robots Tags that turn away engines.
Check your codes for the following tags
between the <head> and </head>.
<meta http-equiv="Refresh"
content="0; URL=http://www.other-domain.com/directory/filename.html">
This tag redirects your page to another
web site. If you have this tag in your code,
the robots will usually completely ignore
your website altogether.
<meta name="ROBOTS" content="NOINDEX,
NOFOLLOW">
This tag specifically directs robots to
ignore that web page. If you have it in
your code, remove it immediately. You can
use it on pages you do not want Search Engines
to index.
10. You are using a Free Website
Hosting company that cannot be spidered
Many free website hosts use various
methods of enforcing their advertising banners
on your ite. This sometimes causes wrong
and/or incomplete indexing of your website.
If you repeatedly have trouble with getting
your free website indexed, switch to a pay
web hosting provider. In some cases, there
are even low cost host providers that cannot
be spidered.
Lions Share Media hosting can indeed be
spidered, and we do everything we can to
help you make your site "search engine
friendly".
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