How do I get my website to show up in search engines such as google?

Question

I am using Dreamweaver to create the site and have entered in my site descriptions and meta tag keywords, but when I do a search I get no results?

Answer 1

Ranking high in the search engines -- and improving your rank from #238 to #50 or better -- depends on various factors that determine the relevance of your website as viewed by the search engines. This is called search engine optimization (SEO)

You can do the SEO yourself, or you can outsource it and hire a company to do it for you. If you do it yourself, be prepared to spend countless hours in webmaster's forums to learn of new algorithms and new ranking schemes by the SEs. Ranking high on the SEs can be done - but it takes a lot of effort.

Search engines look at the following factors in ranking websites, though in varying degrees of importance:

- Age = the older your site, the more favorable search engines look at it
- Quality of Content = the more original your content, the better
- Keyword density = the keywords your pages are competing
- How it fares in the results = when your page shows up in the search engines, are users clicking it and staying on your page or do they hit the back button immediately (which conveys to SEs that your page is not relevant)
- Site structure
- Backlinks = how many, and more importantly, what are the quality of the sites that link to you. The more "authoritative" the sites that link to you, the better your rank will be.

If you are going to read only one piece on search engine optimization, I suggest you read Brett Tabke of WebmasterWorld.com's "Successful Site in 12 Months with Google Alone: 26 steps to 15k a day." http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum3/2010.htm

WebmasterWorld.com http://www.webmasterworld.com has different sections that cover various aspects of search engine optimization, and each section is participated in by respected webmasters and even search engine employees (e.g. there's a GoogleGuy that responds to Google topics)

Other resources that can help you get top ranking in the search engines are:

Google Press Releases http://googlepress.blogspot.com/
Matt Cutts Blog http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/ (Matt is a Google software engineer)
Digitalpoint Yahoo Forums http://forums.digitalpoint.com/forumdisplay.php?f=6
SearchEngineWatch's MSN Forums http://forums.searchenginewatch.com/forumdisplay.php?f=8

As for tools to help you get top rankings in the search engine, here are some of the best in the field today

Total Optimizer Pro http://www.totaloptimizer.com/
Keyword density tool http://googlerankings.com/ultimate_seo_tool.php
Google Sitemaps (to help Google index your pages faster) https://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/siteoverview?hl=en

Answer 2

Google SEO or search engine optimization. Google does not release their methods, but there are plenty of blogs out there that will give you tried and tested tricks that help. The paid ads are on the right side and the top couple of the google results. The order of results here depend on how much you are willing to pay per click and your page ranking.

Answer 3

Dmoz takes very long to approve sites as they are "hand picked".

Your best bet for a quick submission is to submit your link directly to Google at http://www.google.com/addurl/. It takes a few days (sometimes weeks) for your site to get spidered but it will show up eventually.

You can also use the Google Sitemap tool to have you entire website crawled as you update your content (https://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/).

If it would not take much out of you, submit to Dmoz.org as well for maximum impressions.

I suggest taking all of these steps.

Answer 4

You have to get your site spidered. In other words you either have to have a site that is on google, etc. link to you or you can submit your site to the search engines. Yahoo has a submission proceedure linked from their home page (unless they moved it) and Google gets its base directory from http://www.dmoz.org/ which also has a submission policy.

Answer 5

please check this link:
http://www.sitepoint.com/article/ultimate-seo-checklist

good luck