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How do you get Google to report your site
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Posted February 25, 2013 at 5:25PM
My church in Crete has a new website. How do we get Google & co to include it in searches such as "Churches in Crete"
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Posted February 25, 2013 at 11:57PM
Google will automatically pick up your site and index it.
If you want to ensure that your site is Google friendly you should read this
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Posted February 26, 2013 at 5:30AM
Thanks. I had been given the wrong idea by companies who "guarentee" best results from Google. I shall certainly study the link.
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Posted February 27, 2013 at 10:50AM
Though there are legitimate companies who can help you have a search engine friendly website they are very hard to identify amongst the much larger number of companies who seek to take advantage of people's lack of knowledge about search engines.
Put simply, if you build a site that is easy to read and navigate by a human being it will also be useful to search robots.
Tricks to get higher rankings are just that and Google constantly looks for them and blocks them.
For a small site owner, the simple rule is never pay for SEO. (That's not the same as paying for a designer/builder who, as part of the package, makes sure the site gets its proper ranking.)
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Posted February 27, 2013 at 3:11PM
have a look and register your website too googles "webmaster tools" it can help submit your pages and things! its free.
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Posted February 28, 2013 at 8:06AM
Using Google's webmaster tools and help is an excellent idea.
Not least because it tells you very clearly that there is no need to submit your site.
Google does a very good job of telling people how to get the proper ranking. Why would it provide information that made its service worse?
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Posted March 5, 2013 at 12:31AM
Ensure that the site has correctly written metatags in both the the body and the head.
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Posted March 5, 2013 at 5:46AM
Google does not report the site when I query "Churches in Crete".
AdTheGeek: What are metatags?
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Posted March 5, 2013 at 9:18AM
"What are metatags?"
They are keywords which relate to the subject matter of your site, and were in the past inserted into site pages in hidden form, so search engines could see them, and list your site accordingly. That was because, back then, sites were ranked purely on site content.
I say this happened 'in the past' because Google doesn't use meta-tags to rank websites, and hasn't done so for many years. You should ignore any advice that you include them.
Google ranks sites using very sophisticated algorithms, none of which use meta-tags. Google relies instead on site content, plus other 'off page' factors, one of which is how many external links point to a site.
Optimising your site can be a lengthy process, but in essence you should concentrate on the content and architecture - well written text, appropriate images, and efficient site navigation. Make sure that you refresh the content from time to time, and work on getting other sites to link back to you. One way of doing this is by what's called 'reciprocal linking', a process whereby you put a link to a site on your page, and that site owner includes a link to your site.
It's easier said than done, if it was easy everyone would do it. Take time over your pages, work away at getting the content right, find other, related sites to link with.
Use Google analytics to monitor progress.
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Posted March 6, 2013 at 10:14AM
If the site is live, post a link so people can look and see if there are any obvious problems with getting your proper ranking.
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Posted March 6, 2013 at 3:28PM
The site is http://www.christchurchcrete.com The choice of .com was not mine! You will see that the site is simple and is still being constructed
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