Search Engines

Is our site listed?

[billelm]

Hi To all,

When i enter our website name snipped in say M S N, Google, Yahoo etc, And our web site is shown on their pages, does this mean we are listed with these search engines.

Also what does this lot mean.

(Note! This site does NOT provide the /robots.txt file or the /robots.txt file is not constructed properly. It is recommended all sites provide this file. For more information on how to properly construct and use the /robots.txt file consider becoming a member.) Current Meta Description Tag:

<META NAME="Description" CONTENT="[snip]">
This Tag is 283 characters in length including tabs, spaces and carriage returns
Status: Warning! This Tag contains too many characters for what we would consider a "robot friendly" Web page. The maximum number of characters we recommend for this Tag is 150.

WARNING! THIS TAG MAY BE DISQUALIFIED!

REASON: We found the following keywords were repeated more than 3 times in the META Keywords Tag:

The word [snip] was repeated 12 times
We realize you have separated at least one of your keywords with a comma, but this does NOT mean all search engines will separate your keywords by the comma. With some search engines this may be considered "word spamming". We would like to caution you regarding these multiple keywords.

Status: This Tag is considered acceptable and search engine friendly. However this Tag may or may not be properly optimized or descriptive enough to put your Web page on the top of the search engines. This Tag should contain keywords and keyword phrases that is important to your site. Our recommended maximum number of characters for this tag is 874 although we would not recommend you use this entire allowance or you may then suffer from keyword saturation.

I thought running a web site would be a lot simpler than all this. I may go back to playing Medal of Honour on my P C.

Regards to all.

Bill

[edited by: DaveAtIFG at 7:31 pm (utc) on Feb. 29, 2004]

[edited by: pageoneresults at 7:54 pm (utc) on Feb. 29, 2004]
[edit reason] Removed Specifics - Please Refer to TOS [/edit]

[troels nybo nielsen]

> our web site is shown on their pages, does this mean we are listed with these search engines.

Yes.

Your meta description tag should be short and precise. This is not very important though. Most search engines put very little weight or no weight at all on meta tags now because a couple of years ago many webmasters spammed those tags heavily.