Search Results [Archive] - Hostmonster Forums

jaddan

07-16-2008, 03:08 AM

Hi, this is my first time on your forum, hope you can help me.

Why does my site not show up when I search for it, it shows up when I typed the www address but not on the search pages. :confused:

pghcollectibles

07-16-2008, 04:49 AM

how long have you had your page? do you have meta data for robots and have you made a robots.txt file? i know we have talked about seo (search engine optimization) on here before. you are not however able to search the forums for words of only three letters in length. google (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=seo&btnG=Google+Search) can provide you with about 251,000,000 results. this (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Search_engine_optimization) is from wikipedia

jaddan

07-16-2008, 05:03 AM

Hi, I uploaded my site to the net yesterday. I have no idea what meta data for robots is. I did look through loads of pages on your forum but couldn't see what I was looking for. I have just signed up for the Orange free spider crawler to help people find my site, but nothing yet.

jaddan

07-16-2008, 05:16 AM

Just looking at the SEO site you refer to, what a great site thanks for that, I will have a read.

pghcollectibles

07-16-2008, 05:21 AM

it takes 24-72 hrs for information to propagate. do a google search for it every day and you should see it soon.

<meta name="robots" content="all">

goes into your <head></head> section of your html code you will have to research to find what to put into your robots.txt file, but it will go into your public_html folder

jaddan

07-25-2008, 04:13 AM

Hi, I have read everything that I could and added the following lines in my html pages:

<meta name="robots" content="all">

but my site is still not showing on searches, its now been 9 days, I must have done something wrong or haven't done what is needed for the search engine to find me. I logged my URL with Google, MSN and Yahoo, please help.

My web site is: www.jdsart-photographystudion.com

My site only shows up when I type the address in the top of page.

Falcon1986

07-25-2008, 07:40 AM

Pixel2Life.com (http://www.pixel2life.com/search/all/seo/1/) has a lot of articles on SEO, some of which you may want to browse through.

I frequent the AskApache.com (http://www.askapache.com/) blog for tips on securing and improving my Wordpress installation. The author has quite a few tips on SEO (http://www.askapache.com/seo/) as well.

D0gSoldi3r

07-27-2008, 06:48 AM

well it took me a month to start getting results on google and i consider myself good at getting google rankings and even i run into problems so be patient and you'll see it shortly.

shadmego

07-27-2008, 06:57 AM

Jaddan, welcome to the community.

I just wanted to ensure you understand what this forum is .. and thus ... isn't.

This is a forum where people can go to get user-to-user help. Very rarely will you see actual HM support people here answering questions. The people that helped you in this thread, for instance, are all just regular users like you and me.

Just wanted to clear that up.

~regards