khaskins - 9:13 pm on Feb 14, 2003 (gmt 0)

I have gone through all of our pages and verified that they either had a title or I added one. I made sure each page had a main heading at the top of the page that matched the Title meta tag and I repeated it in Italics at the beginning of the first paragraph on each page. I submitted our website to ODP or dmoz.org and I am trying to add content.

I tried an experiment a couple of days ago. I did a search on google for our main Keyword and started paging through the results to see how far back in the listings we were. I looked through 50 pages of listings and never saw our site listed even though I know google has our site in their database. Even though there is a lot of competition in our industry, my company's URL never appeared even though page 50 listed other stuff that was vaguely related to our industry. Why wasn't my company's URL listed at all? I saw several references to the top 10 guys a few listing of other companys, off the wall stuff, etc. and it seemed to rotate. Any clues?

I'm going through the document "Successful Site in 12 months with Google alone" trying to systematically cover each line. I have a few questions on it. What is meant by hit the density between 5 and 20%? What is meant by Directories? I listed in DMOZ.org are there others that I should list in?