On Thursday 24 February 2005 12:19, Paul Taylor wrote: ...
I am running a web hosting and design company at school as a way to get decent experience (and Linux brain-washing) to my 6th form. It is all going quite well and we now have several clients. I am using Mambo as it is easy to use and makes for good screen shots in the portfolios. However, one of my customers has complained that their site does not appear on any search engines. I have tried several options relating to the meta tags (which I have been told are somewhat deprecated), but still no sign of the sites. My main site comes up pretty high on Google so it is a bit of an oddity. Any suggestions?
Hi Paul, What does your client actually mean by, "does not appear on any search engines"? That statement seems pretty dogmatic, but is also extremely vague. Does it mean that the reference is in page one point million of two million pages (ie there, but too far down to find) when searching by business category (which is what one would expect of any new site) or that there are no hits whatsoever if one searches explicitly for the client's name itself (which would be odd)? In the latter case, has the site been submitted to the search engines in question? Does the client's name appear as actual text on the site (as well as in meta tags)? There's a whole lot of other scenarios between the above extremes; and to give useful advice probably needs more detail about the problem. Can you give a URL so that we can look at the site itself? Good networking, Roger