do you have to pay Google so that your website appears on their search engine?
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No. You do not have to pay anyone to get your website on search engines (except perhaps some specialty ones).
Anyone telling you otherwise or selling "search engine optimization" is full of fecal matter.
posted by anonymouscoward on Jul 16, 2012 at 09:09:46 am #
ok, so why wouldnt a website appear then? do you need to notify them? I can manually enter the site for our church and it pops right up, but if you just google the name, city, state, nothing. even a google map appears with directions to the facility, but where other folks' website shows there's nothing
Are you looking at just the first page of returned results?
You can create a robots.txt or put lines in your website code to exclude it being indexed by search engines, or ask them to remove results...
posted by anonymouscoward on Jul 16, 2012 at 09:27:30 am #
Billy how long had the site been live? If it's new, it can take some time to show up.
To be listed in the search results at Google, your site must have at least one site linking to it. Try submitting your site to a web directory, getting mentioned on a blog, or posting the address on a Facebook page.
Basically getting to show up in Google is really a huge game. This link will explain Search Engine Optimization (SEO) a lot better.
mixman posted at 12:27:25 PM on Jul 16, 2012:
To be listed in the search results at Google, your site must have at least one site linking to it. Try submitting your site to a web directory, getting mentioned on a blog, or posting the address on a Facebook page.
He could post the link here on Toledo Talk...things mentioned here tend to show up in Google quickly.
I swear half my job now at work is about search engine optimization education.
How you structure pages, key words and internal links all play a huge role on ranking.
posted by SensorG on Jul 16, 2012 at 12:54:05 pm # 1 person liked this
As big and bigger: Site performance(up time, load time, etc) and external linking. The later is HUGE.
Here is the short list I keep handy - external links coming in rule, but you won't have as much say for them.
- Page titles - 70 char or less and keep keywords at beging.
- Limit the use of all Flash pages and they won’t be indexed by search engines.
- Unique content - Try not to have duplicate content on pages.
- Best to write 300 words of keyword specific optimized text on each page.
- No underscores (_), only hyphens (-) for page and image names.
- Internally page to page on site. (3-4 links per page)
- Optimize internal links – avoid "click here" and "read more"
- Keyword density – your key words should have a 3-7% destiny. Over 10% will have negative results
- Keywords in headings (<H1>, <H2>, etc. tags) - One more place where keywords count a lot. But beware that your page has actual text about the particular keyword.
- Keywords in anchor text - Also very important, especially for the anchor text of inbound links, because if you have the keyword in the anchor text in a link from another site, this is regarded as getting a vote from this site not only about your site in general, but about the keyword in particular.
- Keywords in
- Inbound links – the more people who link to you the better
- <Keywords> metatag - The <Keywords> metatag also matters, though as all metatags it gets almost no attention from Google and some attention from Bing and Yahoo! Keep the metatag reasonably long – 10 to 20 keywords at most. Don't stuff the <Keywords> tag with keywords that you don't have on the page, this is bad for your rankings.
- Keywords font size and formatting - When a keyword in the document text is in a larger font size in comparison to other on-page text, this makes it more noticeable, so therefore it is more important than the rest of the text. Bold and italic are another way to emphasize important words and phrases. However, use bold, italic and larger font sizes within reason because otherwise you might achieve just the opposite effect.
- Sitemap - It is great to have a complete and up-to-date sitemap, spiders love it, no matter if it is a plain old HTML sitemap or the special Google sitemap format.
- Dynamic URLs - Spiders prefer static URLs, though you will see many dynamic pages on top positions. Long dynamic URLs (over 100 characters) are really bad and in any case you'd better use a tool to rewrite dynamic URLs in something more human- and SEO-friendly.
posted by SensorG on Jul 16, 2012 at 01:42:47 pm # 1 person liked this
The following link explains the quick way to submit a website to Google to get it crawled and indexed. Other search engines have similar processes, but these days if you get picked up by Google the other search engines will quickly find out about your site without you needing to submit to every search engine.
I also wrote a series of posts about SEO and blogging some years ago; here are links to the posts for anyone who is curious:
posted by historymike on Jul 16, 2012 at 03:13:02 pm #
I also suggest working "Fifty Shades of Grey” into your content was well to increase your ranking… :)
posted by SensorG on Jul 16, 2012 at 04:37:37 pm # 1 person liked this
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