BeeDeeDubbleU - 11:11 am on May 4, 2004 (gmt 0)

If your startpage has decent indexable content, then you can start getting some hits before google has even visited any of your other pages.

If only ...

I realise that you used the words "can" and "some" but we should be clear that it now requires much more than indexable content to get any hits from Google. The Google guidelines are easy to follow and follow them I did but my site is virtually nowhere to be found.

I provide many pages of original information on my site and I wrote the material myself. It appears near the top of the other main directories and just about all of the authority sites in my business link to it. Result? I get NO Google traffic and my site cannot be found.

There is just no way that my site should not be getting found for the many keywords used in my business. When I say that I am getting no traffic I mean NO traffic.

I know from the feedback I get from my visitors that the independent information provided on my site is exactly what they are seeking when they search for the main KW. There is definitely some kind of filter placing my site low down in the rankings.

Here's what their technology overview page says ...

The software behind Google's search technology conducts a series of simultaneous calculations requiring only a fraction of a second. Traditional search engines rely heavily on how often a word appears on a web page. Google uses PageRank™ to examine the entire link structure of the web and determine which pages are most important. It then conducts hypertext-matching analysis to determine which pages are relevant to the specific search being conducted. By combining overall importance and query-specific relevance, Google is able to put the most relevant and reliable results first.

Sorry Google, not in my experience!