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It was to do with my personal webpage and how, though I've changed e-mail addresses, I'd like old friends to be able to find me by just typing my name into Google and there, up comes my webpage with my current e-mail address.
The page has been up for a while, about 10 months now on the same server. I have at least one link to Google on my site, though not on the home page, and I've yet to hear the pitter patter of the Googlebot coming by to munch on the cookies and milk I left out for it.
Any thoughts?
You need a link to your page from a page that Google already indexes. Links to Google won't do a thing, except make it easier for your vistors to search after visiting your page.
Jim
But, yea, I've got many links on my little site, and all of them are available from the Google search engine too. Doesn't make any sense to me why it's skipping mine.
For example, I did a Google search on one of the links I have on my site, a search by the link's proper title, and it came up first on the Google list. I have this same link on my site (that specific link belongs to a friend of mine).
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Hi Maccas. Thanks for the tip! I didn't know that!
When you have that page show up as number one on Google for its "proper title," what do you see as the title and description? If the title and description do not match the title of the page plus either the meta description or (more likely) a snippet of the text on the page, then you may have a problem with your robots.txt file, or with the on-page <robots> tag.
Also, do you or do you not see visits from Google's deep crawler (216.239.46.xxx) in your log file?
Jim
When you have that page show up as number one on Google for its "proper title," what do you see as the title and description? If the title and description do not match the title of the page plus either the meta description or (more likely) a snippet of the text on the page, then you may have a problem with your robots.txt file, or with the on-page <robots> tag.Also, do you or do you not see visits from Google's deep crawler (216.239.46.xxx) in your log file?
Ok, NOW you've completely lost me! I'm just a guy, not a web master or anything, and my site is hosted by my ISP, so I don't know what a <robots> tag is and I don't have any log files.
HELP!?!
I suspect that if you go back a few years, your description of yourself fits most of us here. :)
You can research robots.txt and other subjects by using the WebmasterWorld site search [searchengineworld.com].
If you don't know what robots.txt and <robots> metatags are, then it is doubtful that they could be the cause of your problem.
Jim
But, yea, I've got many links on my little site, and all of them are available from the Google search engine too. Doesn't make any sense to me why it's skipping mine.
Snowman, it's not clear to me that you've got this right. When you say "links on my little site," are you talking about links on your pages to those sites, or links on those sites to you?
The second is what you need: links to your site from other sites that are listed to Google. Googlebot has to be able to follow one of those links to you.
