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I put up a simple, one-page web site more than a month ago and had been promoting it via Google AdWords -- but in searching for my own site, I've gotten bizarre, seemingly-illogical results.
Although the results vary somewhat between different search engines, very few of the results make sense to me.
After reading the User Guidelines for webmasterworld.com, it's unclear if I ought to give the URL of my site on this post. So I'll hold off for now.
The site is "two words condensed into one" as the domain name. When I type those two words into a search box (as two words), AllTheWeb successfully finds my site and Yahoo finds my site.
Vivisimo does not find it -- either as two words or as two-words-in-quotes. When I type it in as one combined word, Vivisimo still does not find my site -- although it returns completely non-related sites that have my domain name contained inside the description for the non-related sites. Yet, those results contain no links to my site.
The same thing happens with Google. The only way I find myself on Google is to type in one combined word. When I do that on Google, it does find my site -- but it also returns 21 other results that (like Vivisimo) have nothing to do with my site and contain no links to mine.
I find this particuarly confusing on Google for two reasons. (1) I've been promoting the site using AdWords ... and (2) I specifically submitted the site to Google using their "Submit your content to Google" page.
Search.msn.com returns nothing under any circumstances. I also specifically submitted to MSN. Both of those direct submissions were over a week ago.
Someone suggested that I make sure that the name of my site is included in the list of keywords in the code at the top of my page. I went back and corrected that -- but the bizarre results continue.
I am completely confused and would really appreciate some ideas as to the whereabouts of the fly in my ointment.
Your interpretation was correct; No personal URLs, please.
I'd advise three things to start:
Read a lot here [webmasterworld.com].
Add pages to your site.
Get lots of incoming links to your site from related sites, using link-text that is relevant to your site.
Keyword-in URL is only one tiny part of getting ranked in search. And <meta keywords> are practically deprecated. You need a good title, a compelling description, proper use of HTML page elements, sucha a s <h1>, <h2>, etc., and lots of quality text on each page, making your site a truly-useful resource.
Google claims to have 'a chinese wall' between Adwords and Search; Therefore, Adwords participation will have nothing to do with your ranking in organic search results.
Click the link, and get started!
Jim
