Search Engine FAQ

I use to have a good listing in Google always in the top 20 now I'm not even in the top 500. What happened?

• Google went through a major change on what is considered a priority indication of which websites get top rankings see our Search Engine Optimizing web page for more information. All search engines update how they rank websites every six months. Few stay the same as Search Engines are highly competitive.

I've seen websites that guarantee a #1 spot in all the search engines. Why can't you?

• The only way anyone can make that guarantee is if they are using your URL as the search phrase. And anyone can do that. But what's the point in it?  No one knows your URL, so how are the going to find you? You have to use keywords or phrases that people would use to find your website. And since each search engine is different it's impossible to obtain a top 10 ranking in each of them. You have to choose which search engine is going to be important to your website and build it to that search engine.

How can you get early inclusions into Google when nobody else can?

• Because of how we are rated by Google our website is checked by their program every two days and every link on our website is followed and listed. So if you are listed on our website between 5 and 7 days later your website is added to their data base.

Who are the most used search engines?

• You need to go back to our search engine submission page and read it. Google, Yahoo and MSN account for over 87% of all the searches on the Internet.

How big is Google?

• Over four billion Web pages, each an average of 10KB, all fully indexed. Up to 2,000 PCs in a cluster. Over 30 clusters that cover 104 interface languages including Klingon and Tagalog. One petabyte of data in a cluster -- so much that hard disk error rates of 10^-15 begin to be a real issue. Sustained transfer rates of 2Gbps in a cluster. In a nutshell it is one of the largest computing projects on the planet, arguably employing more computers than any other single, fully managed system (we're not counting distributed computing projects here), some 200 computer science PhDs, and 600 other computer scientists.

I'm an auto parts dealer is there a special search engine for us?

• Every business out there has a "special search engine" for their field. But again they will never get you the visitors that the major search engines can. You can't use something if you do not know about it.

Why Isn't My Website In The Search Engine?

• If your site isn't found in the search engines, it is probably because the robots couldn't deal with it. It could be something as simple as not being able to find the site, or it may be more complicated issues involving the robot's not being able to crawl the site or figure out what your pages are all about.
  
  Submitting your site to the major search engines: that will help with the "can't find it" problem. Even having links pointing back to your site can be enough to attract the search engine robots. Google, for example, suggests that you may not have to submit your pages; they will find your site if you have a link pointing back to it from at least one other site on the web.
  
  If the robots can find your site but can't make sense of it, then you may need to look at the content and technology used on your pages. Frames, Flash, dynamically generated pages, and invalid HTML source code can cause problems when the search engine robot tries to access your web pages. While some search engines are beginning to be able to index dynamically generated pages and Flash (e.g. Google and AllTheWeb), use of some of these technologies can hinder your ability to be indexed by the search engine robots.
  
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  We have found that one of the biggest problems with websites that are not getting listed or not getting the proper ranking is simply the fact the website was built using a program such as FrontPage without modifying the HTML codes to become search engine friendly. Another major problem has become people using programs to submit their website. Even though it sounds like a real time saver by submitting to everyone all at once. You're more likely to hurt your chances of getting a good listing or getting a listing at all.

How often do you update your search engine information.

• Since search engines are highly competitive they are changing all the time. To stay on top of the changes we update daily, include new search engines and remove those that cease to exist. Below is a list of those we've completed since January 2004 starting from the 22 of April 2005. This list will be periodically updated.
  
  22 April 2005
  Updated 2 search engines

  22 April 2005
  added Yahoo.es
  added Google AdWords Schweiz to the PPC Manager
  updated 7 search engines
  removed dmoz.ch

  19 April 2005
  updated 4 search engines

  18 April 2005
  added RecipeDirectory.org to special interest sites
  Renamed Overture.com to Yahoo Search Marketing
  
  13 April 2005
  updated 31 search engines
  
  10 April 2005
  Updated 1 search engine
  
  5 April 2005
  added all 3 variations of Ask Jeeves España
  
  2 April 2005
  updated 4 search engines
  
  29 March 2005
  updated 13 search engines
  
  28 March 2005
  updated 21 search engines
  removed AbrahamSearch.com
  JBlue merged with JDGO.com
  
  25 March 2005
  updated 1 search engine
  
  23 March 2005
  updated 21 search engines

  22 March 2005
  updated 1 search engine 

  14 March 2005
  updated 1 search engine 

  9 March 2005
  added Google.be French, MSN.at, MSN.de options
  updated 3 search engines

  8 March 2005
  added DutchTop50.com
  updated 1 search engine
  removed CozyCabin

  4 March 2005
  added 37x.de, Add2Me.dk, BeamMachine.net, Ebelio.de, Hit24.net to the directory submitter

  3 March 2005
  added Pogodak.hr
  updated 4 search engines

  2 March 2005
  updated 3 search engines 

  1 March 2005
  updated 1 search engine 

  25 February 2005
  updated 1 search engine 

  24 February 2005
  added Google.co.za
  added Snap.com to the submitter
  added Meilleurduweb.com to the submitter
  added CDNBusinessDirectory.com to the directory submitter
  added Comteche.us to the special interest submitter
  updated 10 search engines
  removed Gasta.com, Noago.com, Primefind.net 

  22 February 2005
  added NineMSN.com (only from Australia)
  updated 1 search engine
  replaced HotBot.com Inktomi with HotBot.com Ask Jeeves

  14 February 2005
  added NineMSN.com to the submitter
  added Froogle.com
  updated 5 search engines 

  11 February 2005
  added Yahoo.com Y!Q and Tricus.ch
  updated 12 search engines 

  8 February 2005
  updated 3 search engines 

  4 February 2005
  added MSN.ch (French)
  updated 4 search engines

  3 February 2005
  added MSN.ch to the submitter
  updated 1 search engine 

  2 February 2005
  updated 1 search engine 

  1 February 2005
  added Accoona to the submitter
  updated 2 search engines 

  29 January 2005
  added Google.com.ph, NewWebListings.com,
  submission to MSN.com, MSN.co.uk, MSN.de, MSN.es
  updated 3 search engines
  removed Adminet.fr, CurryGuide.com 

  28 January 2005
  updated 5 search engines
  removed Netoskop.pl 

  25 January 2005
  updated 3 search engine 

  21 January 2005
  updated 1 search engine 

  20 January 2005
  updated 13 search engines 

  17 January 2005
  updated 10 search engines 

  16 January 2005
  updated 1 search engine 

  11 January 2005
  updated 15 search engines 

  4 January 2005
  added Seekport.co.uk, Seekport.fr
  updated 2 search engines 

  3 January 2005
  added NetSprint.pl, Onet.pl, SearchSight.com updated 15 search engines
  removed Emande.com, InsideNJ.com, NZExplorer.co.nz

   25 December 2004
   added Google.com Sponsored Links,
   Google.co.uk Sponsored Links,
   Google.de Anzeigen, Google.fr Liens commerciaux and Google.es Enlaces patrocinados
   
   22 December 2004
   added Euro-Directory.com to the directory submitter
   updated 22 search engines
   
   14 December 2004
   added ExactSeek
   updated 8 search engines
   
   10 December 2004
   added AppleGate.co.uk, BApages.com,
   Business-Directory-UK.co.uk, LifeStyle.co.uk,
   SearchUno.co.uk, UKlinks.org to the directory
   submitter
   added 4personaltrainers.com, Find.co.uk,
   KellySearch.com to the special interest submitter
   updated 3 search engines
   removed Whoswhoontheweb.com
   
   8 December 2004
   added Yahoo Local to the directory submitter
   updated 3 search engines
   removed Look.com
   
   4 December 2004
   added SearchWho.com
   updated 4 search engines
   removed Abc.net, LinkStarter.com
   
   29 November 2004
   added MSN.fr BETA,
   updated 3 search engines
   
   26 November 2004
   updated 9 search engines
   
   25 November 2004
   added Yahoo.at,
   updated 4 search engines
   
   23 November 2004
   added Nokodo
    
   19 November 2004
   updated 5 search engines
   added 2 search engines
   
   15 November 2004
   updated 1 search engine
   
   12 November 2004
   added 1 search engine
   updated 14 search engines
   
   11 November 2004
   added 1 search engine
   updated 2 search engines
   
   4 November 2004
   added 9 search engines
   updated 5 search engines
   removed 3 search engines
   
   1 November 2004
   updated 7 search engines
   
   29 October 2004
   added 5 search engines
   updated 6 search engines
   
   27 October 2004
   added 2 search engines
   
   26 October 2004
   added 1 search engine
   
   25 October 2004
   updated 1 search engine
   
   23 October 2004
   updated 2 search engines
   
   22 October 2004
   added 1 search engine
   updated 11 search engines
   
   13 October 2004
   updated 4 search engines
   
   7 October 2004
   added 6 search engines
   updated 8 search engines
   removed 3 search engines
   
   29 September 2004
   updated 7 search engines
   
   17 September 2004
   updated 8 search engines
   
   16 September 2004
   added 3 search engines
   updated 4 search engines
   
   15 September 2004
   updated 2 search engines
   removed 1 search engine
   
   8 September 2004
   added 3 search engines
   updated 5 search engines
   
   3 September 2004
   added 2 search engines
   updated 6 search engines
   removed 1 search engine
   
   26 August 2004
   updated 3 search engines
   removed 1 search engine
   
   23 August 2004
   updated 2 search engines
   
   19 August 2004
   updated 1 search engine
   
   15 August 2004
   updated 1 search engine
   
   13 August 2004
   updated 7 search engines
   
   11 August 2004
   added 1 search engine
   updated 5 search engines
   
   5 August 2004
   added 3 search engines
   updated 5 search engines
   removed 2 search engines
   
   3 August 2004
   updated 11 search engines
   
   26 July 2004
   added 1 search engine
   updated 1 search engine
   removed 1 search engine
   
   19 July 2004
   added 1 search engine
   updated 12 search engines
   removed 1 search engine
   
   17 July 2004
   added 1 search engine
   updated 3 search engines
   removed 1 search engine
   
   16 July 2004
   updated 1 search engine
   
   13 July 2004
   updated 4 search engines
   
   12 July 2004
   added 1 search engine
   updated 9 search engines
   
   7 July 2004
   updated 7 search engines
   
   6 July 2004
   updated 5 search engines
   
   29 June 2004
   updated 1 search engine
   
   28 June 2004
   added 1 search engine
   updated 3 search engines
   
   22 June 2004
   added 2 search engines
   updated 1 search engine
   
   21 June 2004
   added 1 search engine
   updated 6 search engines
   removed 2 search engines
   
   15 June 2004
   added 2 search engines
   updated 1 search engine
   
   9 June 2004
   added 3 search engines
   updated 2 search engines
   
   6 June 2004
   added 1 search engine
   updated 8 search engines
   removed 1 search engine
   
   29 May 2004
   updated 4 search engines
   
   27 May 2004
   added 1 search engine
   updated 1 search engine
   
   25 May 2004
   added 2 search engines
   updated 8 search engines
   removed 1 search engine
   
   18 May 2004
   added 7 search engines
   updated 8 search engines
   
   12 May 2004
   added 2 search engines
   updated 4 search engines
   
   6 May 2004
   updated 1 search engine
   
   5 May 2004
   updated 5 search engines
   
   4 May 2004
   updated 3 search engines
   
   30 April 2004
   added 1 search engine
   updated 14 search engines
   
   19 April 2004
   updated 7 search engines
   
   18 April 2004
   updated 3 search engines
   
   15 April 2004
   updated 7 search engines
   removed 1 search engine
   
   14 April 2004
   added 4 search engines
   
   13 April 2004
   added 2 search engines
   
   10 April 2004
   updated 2 search engines
   
   01 April 2004
   updated 22 search engines
   
   30 March 2004
   updated 1 search engine
   
   29 March 2004
   added 5 search engines
   updated 1 search engine
   
   27 March 2004
   updated 18 search engines
   removed 1 search engine
   
   22 March 2004
   added 6 search engines
   updated 1 search engine
   
   19 March 2004
   added 1 search engine
   updated 5 search engines
   
   13 March 2004
   added 3 search engines
   
   12 March 2004
   added 1 search engine
   updated 9 search engines
   
   06 March 2004
   added 1 search engine
   updated 5 search engines
   removed 1 search engine
   
   05 March 2004
   updated 1 search engine
   
   04 March 2004
   updated 4 search engines
   
   29 February 2004
   updated 16 search engines
   
   28 February 2004
   updated 2 search engines
   
   26 February 2004
   added 3 search engines
   
   24 February 2004
   added 1 search engine
   updated 1 search engine
   
    19 February 2004
   updated 1 search engine
   
   16 February 2004
   added 1 search engine
   updated 13 search engines
   
   06 February 2004
   added 3 search engines
   updated 1 search engine
   
   04 February 2004
   added 6 search engines
   updated 20 search engines
   removed 3 search engines
   
   30 January 2004
   updated 18 search engines
   removed 2 search engines
   
    27 January 2004
   updated 2 search engines
   
   22 January 2004
   added 1 search engine
   
   21 January 2004
   added 2 search engines
   
   15 January 2004
   added 2 search engines
   updated 17 search engines
   
   05 January 2004
   updated 11 search engines