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From: mgill87

Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2008 05:33:10 -0700 (PDT)

Local: Fri, Mar 28 2008 8:33 am

Subject: Re: Finding my site on search engines...

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I have also tried my search rank on speedtester to see if perhaps I
was at the back of the rankings. However, none of my keywords are
ranked at all in google, msn or yahoo, despite my url being listed :s

On Mar 28, 12:24 pm, mgill87 wrote:

> Thanks for all the responses. The metatags I have used have a 95%
> relevancy to my pages content (submit express uk), so I thought that
> if I used those terms (and I tried a lot of the search terms at once)
> it would appear.

> But I understand that there seem to be a lot of different ways to be
> in the listings. I don't have a great knowledge of how this all works,
> but I'm learning slowly! Thanks again for all the above advice :)

> Markhttp://randomtorent.blogspot.com/

> On Mar 28, 3:03 am, sister2brother wrote:

> > On Mar 27, 3:55 pm, mgill87 wrote:

> > > Hi everyone,

> > > I recently started a blog and have (I think) done all the main things
> > > in terms of adding content and trying to publicize it. Recently I
> > > noticed that when I entered my blogs URL into google and into
> > > webcrawler, it came up!

> > > I use Google webmaster tools which has told me that it has been
> > > scanned by the googlebot. However whenever I type in any keywords that
> > > I had as metatags, nothing comes up!

> > > I hope I don't sound stupid for asking, but is there something I have
> > > missed? Or does it just take a little longer for the tags to be
> > > activated in the search? Otherwise, I will not have any traffic, if
> > > for it to appear the whole URL has to be typed.

> > > Hope this makes sense!

> > > Mark

> > I think you are missing the point of how search engines operate.

> > When you used the search engine to search for your key terms / terms
> > you used in your meta-tages and other sites are appearing before yours
> > that means that they have incorporated those search terms better into
> > the content of their sites and that is why their sites appear before
> > yours does.

> > If you want your site to be associated with those search terms then
> > you have to better incorporate them into your site.

> > It took me a while to get one of my blogs on the top ranking in the
> > search engines and like others have said here - it doesn't happen
> > overnight.

> >http://theblogconsultant.blogspot.com/2008/02/how-come-i-cant-find-my...

> >http://theseoconsultant.blogspot.com/2007/12/my-quest-to-stay-on-page... quoted text -

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