Submitting URL's to Google

[Dawdeeb]

I know this isnt really music related but I have a music website.

I'm having trouble submitting my website (rohanforsale.com) to google, I submitted it to Yahoo and it worked but we all know how important Google is and I've gotta get my site on there.

I've submitted my url a good few times now and still its not there, ever when I type in the entire url. Does google take ages to update or what, what am I doing wrong?!?!

Anywa, I'd like to hear from anyone who has successfully submitted thier website url to google or anyone who is having a similar problem to me.

Thanks. Rohan.

[grn]

yeah wait 6 weeks and it could hurt you if you keep submitting. what you should really do is submit it to dmoz.org (the open directory)... google usually indexes those sites pretty quickly and pretty high in their rankings. but again, it takes up to 6 weeks.

[warble]

Originally Posted by grn

...what you should really do is submit it to dmoz.org (the open directory)... google usually indexes those sites pretty quickly and pretty high in their rankings. but again, it takes up to 6 weeks.

That's if there is an editor for the category you submit to. I've been waiting two years to get a client into a category on Dmoz.org and it's the only category that really fits the site and it's content (they are picky about that, well that is if there is an actual editor).

Rohan: in regards to Google, I've seen it take months before. Then again, I've seen results in a matter of weeks too. Just be patient, and as stated try using dmoz.org...but as I stated, make sure the category you submit to has an editor!

[Dawdeeb]

ok, cool, thanks alot. Yeah, I'll try Dmoz.org.

[Cyanide-Depende]

Originally Posted by Dawdeeb

I've submitted my url a good few times now and still its not there, ever when I type in the entire url. Does google take ages to update or what, what am I doing wrong?!?

If you submit it more than once it will be blacklisted by google for a short time (depending on how many time you submitted it) and your site will be considered spam, the best thing to do, is submit it once, get good meta data, use your keywords in the content of EVERY PAGE, get traffic from relevant sites (other bands, music boards etc) and wait about 2-3 months youll notice your page rank will increase and you'll show up in google, but unfortunatly having submitted you site multiple times, it may take longer.

Hope this helps
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[Robertt8]

hey! well, i'm not sure if they still do it, but the way google used to rate priority (and this is what made them so unique) was by how many sites linked to yours. so say i've got ten links some where out there on the web, and google happened to scan them, and they all link to my site. that would give me a higher ranking than someone with a similar name that didn't have nay or only a couple. The idea being that the more important you were, the more links to your site you'd have...and oddly enough that seems to be true.

...but, we've never listed with any search companies, and you can pretty much find ours at the top of most search engines...aka...

http://www.google.com/search?client=...UTF-8&oe=UTF-8

http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=bag...&cop=&ei=UTF-8

http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?q...NH&srch_type=0

you get the idea...

it also helps if you have a unique name. it took us a while to pop up on search engines anywhere near the top because of so many references to "bag of toys" when it comes to christmas stuff and the porn industry.

i guess submitting them couldn't hurt either, but all the search engines have bots that go out and search for pages to index wether you submit them or not.

Cheers!
tait
bag of toys

[Guitarmaster]

I think that Google works wioth the amount of hit the website has had and you website might be miles down the list.

[Dawdeeb]

hey, thanks for all this info. Yeah, Im pretty sure that relevancy and popularity(popularity being hits and sites that are linked to your site) are the main things that search engines go on. Yea, I will just wait and see, I have submitted my url to yahoo and some non bot directories so sooner or later I'm sure I'll end up on google.

[Cyanide-Depende]

Google looks at relevant sites thatlink to yours and traffic, bujt remember when looking at your stats, hits is pretty much a useless way of counting traffic, what you want to look at are page views which tracks how many unique ip addresses are goign to your website, this is a much more accurate way of tracking traffic on your site. A hit can be caused by a bot simply looking for content for a search engine, every image you ahve on your page also counts as a "hit" so if you have 4 images on one page, thats 5 hits, one for each image and one for the page itself, thats why the term hits has basically been removed from SEO language. watch your page views when you change something on your site, see what works and what doesnt, keep everything fresh and up t o date.

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