bad ranking in Yahoo search!

confuse about how search engine work.

[charonlee]

I'm facing a big problem...
1.) I put my Title, Description and Meta Keyword into an external JS file, the code is as below:

document.writeln('<title>Quality, affordable homes by SP Setia</title>');
document.writeln('<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">');
document.writeln('<meta name="description" content="S P Setia Berhad is a public listed property development company in Malaysia. It was traditionally involved in general building and home construction, completing over 20,000 units of link houses, high-rise apartments and condominiums as well as commercial and industrial buildings. Following mergers with property-based companies, S P Setia has transformed from being a building contractor to become an integrated group of companies involved in the business of property development, construction and wood-based manufacturing.">');
document.writeln('<meta name="keywords" content="Malaysia property, property development,construction,manufacturing,houses,Spsetia,public listed, wood, wood based, homes, putrajaya, MSC,KLSE,industrial lots, land, landbanks, terrace houses, factory, bungalows.">');

and I was told through the Forum that, the search engine will ignore the JS file, so that means the search engine will fail to index my web-site.

2.) Besides that I was told not necessary to put the description and keyword on all the pages of my web-site. I'm here would like to clarify whether the infor that I get is true or not as I have gone through an artile about the search engine, in the article, it mentions that the indexes of search engine are generated automatically, base on the words and phrases that are found on we pages.

3.) While we are registering our site, we are requested to provide our site URL, Description, Keyword as well as comment about our web-site. As I know all these information will be saved into the search engine database and we will be accessing the database when we enter keyword searches. My question is since the description and keywords that we provided have already save into the search engine database, so, why we still need to put the Description and Keyword into all of our web pages. (if the question 2 not true). I do come across some web-site which never put their description and meta keyword. would it affect the search engine to index out site? Please help. Thanks!

4.) Is there any web-site that you can recomment for me to have better understanding of how search engine work.

5.) I have already registered my web-site at Yahoo, but the ranking is terrible, can't find, only can be found if i type my domain name.

Thanks!!

[skibum]

Hi charonlee and welcome to WebMasterWorld!

It sounds like one one question is the difference between search engines and directories.

Directories (like YAHOO! and ODP - www.dmoz.org) are databases full of sites that are reviewed by people. When you submit, a person looks at the title and description you put on the submission form, and checks to see that it accurately reflects the content of your site. If it does they will use your title and description. If they feel it does not, they will modify it so that it does.

Search engines like Google and AltaVista build their databases by using software to visit pages within a site. Search engines will look at the titles and descriptions you have on each page of the site. It is by no means required to put them on any pages of the site, but they can help improve search engine rankings if the titles and descriptions reflect the content of the individual pages.

From the keywords and description above, it looks like it might be beneficial to focus on regionally specific keywords as well as search engines and directories popular in Malaysia.

The forums here are probably the best place to learn about search engines. websearch.about.com searchenginewatch.com and searchengineforums.com are a few other sites that you may find useful.

It appears that the way to improve rankings in YAHOO! (if you are in the directory) may be to improve your PageRank [webmasterworld.com] in Google.

You should first determine if you are listed in the YAHOO! directory of sites or in the YAHOO! web pages which are supplied by Google.

People may be able to give you more specific advise if you put the site in question in your profile.

[charonlee]

if all of the web-pages of my web-site will be uisng same title, same description as well as same keyword, DO I NEED TO PUT ITS on all of the pages all index/default page will do. Please help!

[SmallTime]

The title, meta description and keywords should be specific to the page they are on.

[charonlee]

never mind, just assume that I want all of my pages have same title, description and meta keyword (as most of my pages are in same category). So DO NEED STILL NEED TO PUT the description and keyword in all of the pages (for search engine use) or just put into index/default page will do.

Thanks!!

[daesasitorn]

Every page in a website is individual, you can not say 'see my index page for title and description!' If I were you, I would, not only just put title, description in every page, but I would write them differently. I understand you said you have more or less the same contents on most pages, but why not use different words or phrases that mean the same thing. The more keywords the better.........

[brotherhood of LAN]

I agree with the above

If you were to measure the amount of time you spend on each aspect of a site, the time it takes to write a unique title,description (and maybe keywords) outweighs many other aspects of a site. Maybe even for some SE's a well considered title is just as important as the meaty content you provide on the page (as far as a webmaster and his hit counter are concerned) I guess

[WindSun]

Each and every page should have it's own title and Meta tags - assuming of course that each page is different, and not some auto-generated SE spam thing...