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Old 20th-March-2007, 05:15 PM
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Hi,
I have built a site but dont know how to to get it to be included in a search engine such as google, please any ideas will be welcome.
Thanks,
Bryan
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Old 20th-March-2007, 10:02 PM
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The search engines will find you as they have robots/spiders that trawl the web for new websites.

Also you can add Meta Tags to your pages that makes the above easier to classify your website.
Short hand as to its content if you like.

Here's the meta tags on my website.

Code:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
  <title>index.htm</title>
  <meta http-equiv="Content-Type"
 content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<META name="author" content="peter smitheram">
<META name="keywords" content="archaeology, geology, history, kedington, suffolk, wildlife, nestboxes, plans, emergency contacts, local information">
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Old 22nd-March-2007, 12:58 PM
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Hi Peter,
Thanks, I`ll give it a go.
Bryan
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Old 27th-April-2007, 12:41 AM
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Bry

As well as using your keywords in meta tages, there are some other important things.

Your TITLE tag is very important. Make sure it includes a good description of what your site has to offer, include a couple of your keywords. For example, if you had a site selling widgets, rather than your title saying something like "Widgets Home Page" it would be better to say something like "Brydavies Exciting Widgets, Competitvely Priced Widgets for All Occasions. Home page"
If you look at Google search results, you'll see that whatever is listed as the first part of the search result is actually the site's title. (As appears at the very top of the page.)

The text you write on the page is VERY important. Make sure it includes some of your keywords, and that your first heading says something (corny!) like "Welcome to the site for Brydavies Exciting Widgets."

When I did a site for Warlingham Dog Training club, I was puzzled as to why it wasn't coming up in the search results. I had put on the opening page....

We're on the Move!

After 30 years based at Warlingham Rugby Club, we are now obliged to find ourselves a new home.... (etc)

But I diacovered it WAS coming up in a search for Warlingham RUGBY club! So after the heading, I simply inserted the line "Welcome to our new website for Warlingham Dog Training Club." and that did the trick.
If your heading is an image, make sure it has a descriptive "alt" tag. Use one of your keywords in it if possible.


Get as many people as possible to link to your site. Links to a site make it appear more important and popular to a search engine, and it will rank the site higher.

It can be several weeks before Google locates and lists your site. :wink:
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Hi Skyrunner.
Thanks for all the info.
I have tried to get meta tags in the file but still no good.
If you have the time and if its pos.could you look at my syntax and confirm that I`m doing it right
thanks
Bryan
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Old 27th-April-2007, 07:45 PM
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Hi Bryan
I would have a look but I need the URL to your website, or have I missed something.
Another way to improve the listing is to make your website your browsers home page.
This means every time you open your browser it searches for your website, (more hits).
The other benefit is you have a constant check, that your website is working OK.
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Hi,
Sorry of course you need the url, had a couple of gins, it is
`bryandaviesphotography.co.uk` that is the domain name and it links to my space with ntl
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OK Brian
Had a quick look the Meta tags are duplicated about three times,
twice between duplicated head tags and once under the body tag (wrong place).
So some pruning is required to sort out the duplication,
that said the meta tag info looks OK but could be improved I think.
Will have a good look later, as I am off out.
I expect Sky will have a look and suggest a few things also.
But you will eventually be listed by a search engine.
One bit of info that is missing is the decloration that its an HTML document.
This should sit at the very top of every Page.
Here it is
Code:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
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OK Brian
I have cleaned up the head section and meta tags and added the html declaration.
Below is the codes before and after should you choose to use it.

Your code

Code:
<html>

<head>
<HEAD>
<TITLE>bryan davies photography</TITLE>
<meta name="description"content="bryandavies,photography,wroughton">

<META http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<META name="generator" content="Microsoft FrontPage 5.0">
<META name="author" content="bryan davies">
<META name="keywords" content="alhambra ,granada ,spain">
<META name="description" content="some images of the alhambra granada spain">
</HEAD>

<meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft FrontPage 5.0">
<meta name="ProgId" content="FrontPage.Editor.Document">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252">
<title>New Page 1</title>
</head>

<body bgcolor="#999999">

<p align="center"><HEAD>
<TITLE>bryan davies photography</TITLE>
<META http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<META name="generator" content="SiteUp Internet Promotions Meta-Tag Builder">
<META name="author" content="bryan davies">
<META name="keywords" content="alhambra ,granada ,spain">
<META name="description" content="some images of the alhambra granada spain">
</HEAD>
This bit is in the wrong place

Code:
<p align="center"><HEAD> 
<TITLE>bryan davies photography</TITLE> 
<META http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> 
<META name="generator" content="SiteUp Internet Promotions Meta-Tag Builder"> 
<META name="author" content="bryan davies"> 
<META name="keywords" content="alhambra ,granada ,spain"> 
<META name="description" content="some images of the alhambra granada spain"> 
</HEAD>

This is my cleaned up version with the declaration.

Code:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>

<html>

<head>

<TITLE>bryan davies photography</TITLE>

<meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html;charset=iso-8859-1">

<meta name="description"content="bryandavies,photography,wroughton">
<meta name="generator" content="Microsoft FrontPage 5.0">
<meta name="author" content="bryan davies">
<meta name="keywords" content="alhambra ,granada ,spain">
<meta name="description" content="some images of the alhambra granada spain">

</head>

<body bgcolor="#999999">
Add the other body code of your site under the above body tag, note this is an example.
Add more info to the meta tags as you wish.
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