Thanks Rob, as always I greatly appreciate the help given here. This is a
great resource and I have learned a tremendous amount because of this site.
Next question (two actually).
1. How long does it typically take for the spiders to get the info. We have
submitted the URL's to several search engines as of Friday and we still don't
appear anywhere. (submitted to MSN, Yahoo, Google)
2. When I do a view source on other web sites (ones that come up first on
the searches), the first few lines are just the title and meta tags, nothing
else. Does having this info right at the top realy make a difference to the
spiders? We are trying to get at least on the first page of searches when we
search home inspection and thought we had done everything to do that. Is
there something else I can do?
I know these questions are not specifically Publisher questions but they are
somewhat related as I was thinking it was the Publisher formatting that was a
root cause...... I'm a newbee at this stuff - read a lot of info and getting
a bit overwhelmed.
> Leave it alone, the spiders know what to read.
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| Thanks Rob, as always I greatly appreciate the help given here. This is a
| great resource and I have learned a tremendous amount because of this site.
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| submitted the URL's to several search engines as of Friday and we still don't
| appear anywhere. (submitted to MSN, Yahoo, Google)
Weeks, sometimes months.
| 2. When I do a view source on other web sites (ones that come up first on
| the searches), the first few lines are just the title and meta tags, nothing
| else. Does having this info right at the top realy make a difference to the
| spiders? We are trying to get at least on the first page of searches when we
| search home inspection and thought we had done everything to do that. Is
| there something else I can do?
I'm no expert on SEO, but I hear that search engines have moved away from
putting much weight on meta tags. Textual content on the index page is
important.
Here's a pretty good site http://searchenginewatch.com/
There are more like that too.
Don't fall for the pay for registering your site for better positioning scam
junk.
| I know these questions are not specifically Publisher questions but they are
| somewhat related as I was thinking it was the Publisher formatting that was a
| root cause...... I'm a newbee at this stuff - read a lot of info and getting
| a bit overwhelmed.
Just keep at it, it doesn't happen overnight.
hth
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| > | Any direction would be, as always, very greatful.
Deb - 14 Jun 2006 04:03 GMT
Thanks for your reply Rob!
GREAT FORUM! Keep up the fantastic support!

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Rob Giordano (Crash) - 14 Jun 2006 14:58 GMT
yer welcome.
| Thanks for your reply Rob!
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