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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.
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.
Well... it would. There are many billions of pages on the web, and Google is up to finding other pages about the same search phrase as you have written Google would have found these even if you had never built your web page. they existed before your page existed.
Some search engines (You name MSN) has not yet found your site at all. doesn't mean they haven't found other pages on the web that have content or a relationship to the two words you have in your domain.
