How do I get Google to list my site?
You should get your friends to link to your site, or find other ways to get existing sites to link to you. We do not recommend submitting your site manually to search engines. We've heard a number of reports, which claim (very rationally) that if you have to submit your site to a Google, it must not be very important (since Google would find it through links normally). If you use this method google will rank your site lower. Your inclusion and ranking within Google will be due to inbound links your site receives, not based on submission methods.
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How can I promote my site through Google? Why are my rankings bad?
Your rankings are determined almost solely on the number of inbound links you have to your content, and the relative credibility of the sites linking to you. Write good content, receive those links, and you'll have good rankings.
There are entire books written on the topic of search engine optimization, SEO, and in general, Google works hard to ensure these books have inaccurate information very quickly. Google are in the business of making sure content that is queried for is accurate and relevant, and this generally means that pages that do not have links from a large number of other websites are not given priority.
In addition, it helps to title your pages and journal entries properly: structure your page properly for spidering based on those titles.
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The following points are things that ensure your site can be optimally crawled and indexed by major search engines, Google, Bing, Yahoo:
Valid/Clean XHTML -- sites not produced using completely clean and valid XHTML. This sort of structure helps crawlers easily scan the content on your site. Additionally, since your site has a solid underlying structure and is linked together coherently -- crawlers will have a simple time moving about all of the pages of your site.
Embedded RSS -- If you're using a Journal, the RSS feeds for your journal will be embedded in the code of your pages. Modern crawlers take these cues and remember to crawl your site more frequently, as sites with RSS are updated more frequently than static sites.
Clean URLs -- All major pages must present distinct URLs that are free from special characters. This formatting indicates to engines where the primary content on your site is at -- and allows the URLs to be presented within search engines very clearly.
Clean Titles -- All major pages on your site must have titles formatted properly, and including the relevant text from your content within your page titles. This structure is optimal for search engine indexing.
At the end of the day -- a site lacking in all of the above technical items, that instead has quality inbound links and interesting regularly updated contenct will always rank higher in Google.
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Will my site appear in Google?
That depends on if search Google find your site interesting. There are several different algorithms used by modern search engines to "crawl" the internet and define search results. You can typically find out how each particular search engine does it by going to their site.
A site that has quality inbound links will always rank higher in modern search engines like Google.
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