You could be an ant farmer in Indonesia who knows nothing about computers but has somehow managed to get a domain name, some hosting, and a hack design program. After the dust clears the man will then ask the ultimate question:
“Why isn’t my website listed in Google?”
The answer to this question is straight forward (kind of not really) and I will quote from the Google Webmaster tools site for specific information. The Google Webmaster section can be found at http://google.com/support/webmasters/
You need a website.
Google is in the business of organizing relevant information and delivering relevant results to the people making the searches. Forwarding a domain name to a network marketing, candle/travel business, anything else that is scam will not be indexed.
Once you build an actual website you have to make sure to include a few key components.
- Title – If you don’t have a proper title that references the keyword you want to be relevant in – well how would you expect Google to list you? Would a book publisher release a book without a title?
- Text – Make sure you have relevant text (information) that is in regards to the keywords you are targeting. Google can’t read your big ugly images, annoying flash, random iFrames, etc. For added benefit you can make sure the text is actually unique and uhh…. relevant.
- Links – You can’t expect the Googlebot to find all your pages if you make it difficult to jump from one page to another from within your own site. Make it easy for your surfers, make it easy for Google, and you will be rewarded.
Google specifically says this: “Googlebot processes each of the pages it crawls in order to compile a massive index of all the words it sees and their location on each page. In addition, we process information included in key content tags and attributes, such as Title tags and ALT attributes. Googlebot can process many, but not all, content types. For example, we cannot process the content of some rich media files or dynamic pages.”
Did you call Google and invite them to play?
Submit your domain name to Google so they know your website is up and ready to play the search engine game. You can do this at the following address: http://www.google.com/addurl/.
Become relevant enough to crawl?
You can provide a website with a title, great coding, and even some original text but Google might still not locate your site. The only way to ensure your listing is to make sure other peers, relevant peers (people already in Google), link to your website.
Ready for the quick fix?
- Create a website (if it is not already made)
- Give it some titles
- Submit to Google
- Have friends and other sites in your keyword range link to your site
Now your listed in Google!
