Dreamweaver - Seeding search engines

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Seeding search engines

Billium99

2004-08-24, 4:15 am

Hi all,

New to all this - was wondering what exactly is involved with creating
metatags for seeding search engines. I made a site with what I thought were
tags with good keywords, etc, but weeks later, the major search engines won't
find it. We seeded the site using Hello Engines which might be different from
DW - Is there a good general tutorial on seeding and tags or even one for DW
specifically would be ok

Thanks

Bill
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2004-08-24, 4:15 am

Do you mean feeding: :-)
I have quite a few articles related to Search Engine Optimisation that may
be of help here:

http://www.dreamweaverresources.com/seo/

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"Billium99" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> Hi all,
>
> New to all this - was wondering what exactly is involved with creating
> metatags for seeding search engines. I made a site with what I thought
were
> tags with good keywords, etc, but weeks later, the major search engines
won't
> find it. We seeded the site using Hello Engines which might be different
from
> DW - Is there a good general tutorial on seeding and tags or even one for
DW
> specifically would be ok
>
> Thanks
>
> Bill
> "Spud, they're my sheets!!!"
>

arizona

2004-08-24, 4:15 am

That is a GREAT resource, thank you!

> Do you mean feeding: :-)
> I have quite a few articles related to Search Engine Optimisation that may
> be of help here:
>
> http://www.dreamweaverresources.com/seo/
>

Dan Vendel *GOF*

2004-08-24, 4:15 am

arizona wrote:
> That is a GREAT resource, thank you!

In addition to Nadia's links:

SE submission/indexing has changed quite dramatically. The only SE
that'll include your site for free nowadays is Google. But on the other
hand, they have implemented a "quarantine" period that lasts something
like 2-4 months. No one really knows exactly. It's called "sandboxing",
and the reason could be that they're trying to figure out how "serious"
a site really is before actually including it.

The other major SEs (AltaVista, Yahoo, MSN, etc) will not include you
unless you pay, e.g. using the "Overture" program. If you chose not to
pay, you'll need to have incoming links from other sites that *are*
listed by them. If you're lucky, they'll then include it after 2-4
months, i.e. waiting time as the Google sandboxing, but these guys are
doing it to make you open your wallet and pay for the submission.

Therefore, you can optimize for SE optimization until you're blue in the
face if the site is new and not previously included: it won't help
anyway. You need to sit down and wait, wait and wait and e.g. do a daily
search on the domain name to see when it's included. When you finally
find it, *then* you can start optimizing.

P.S. "Hello Engines" and similar software for SEO is useless and they're
created to rip off unknowing people. Not only are they blowing hot air
and lying through their teeth. In fact, they're offering "features" that
might even make Google *penalize* your site for "spamming".

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Gary White

2004-08-24, 4:15 am

Billium99 wrote:

> New to all this - was wondering what exactly is involved with creating
>metatags for seeding search engines. I made a site with what I thought were
>tags with good keywords, etc, but weeks later, the major search engines won't
>find it. We seeded the site using Hello Engines which might be different from
>DW - Is there a good general tutorial on seeding and tags or even one for DW
>specifically would be ok

The <meta> tags have little to do with it any more. Most search engines
ignore keywords because of the way they have been abused in the past.
Instead, they concentrate more on content. See
http://dreamweaverresources.com/seo/ for more information.

Gary

Billium99

2004-08-26, 12:18 pm

This is great advice all - thanks heaps!!!!

Bill
"Spud, they're my sheets!!!"