From Leo's mailbag:
> From: A Computer User
> Sent: March 31, 2007
> To: Ask Leo!
> Subject: getting the search engines
>
> Leo,
> I am trying to get a personal web site recognized by the major search
> engines. I've gone onto Google and Yahoo, plus a site that purports to
> register your page across a variety of search engines, and indicated
> the relevant key words that should lead somebody to my page. It's been
> over a month now, and when I do a Google or Yahoo search on the
> relevant terms, my site still does not come up.
>
> I do understand that the major search engines don't automatically find
> a site just because it's there, but is there something else I could or
> should be doing?
There are two things you should do:
- make sure that some other site that IS in Google's index links to your
site. Preferably more than one, and preferably with a high "page rank",
and preferably one that would make sense, topically, to link to you.
- wait. A month is, honestly, too soon to expect anything unless you're
an incredibly high profile site.
Also, make sure that you're not violating any of Google's webmaster guidelines.
http://www.google.com/webmasters/
Thanks for asking,
Leo
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