On Thursday 24 February 2005 22:01, Roger Beaumont wrote:
On Thursday 24 February 2005 12:19, Paul Taylor wrote:
What does your client actually mean by, "does not appear on any search engines"? That statement seems pretty dogmatic, but is also extremely vague. Sorry about that, it was rather 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)?
This si the case. There are tags which they have asked me too put in which are quite bague such as bath, stourhead, etc. but the site itself does not come up anywhere on Google.
In the latter case, has the site been submitted to the search engines in question? I didn't know this could be done and it has not been an issue as other sites I have done appear in the top page of Google. This is fairly new to me and I am doing it in between all of my teaching load so it is a bit hit and miss. Does the client's name appear as actual text on the site (as well as in meta tags)?
Yes, but their name is their guest house which is Taumata. They must have got this from a holiday in the Antipedes as this appears quite a lot. The site is also split between two sites: B & B and Child Minding (his wife's business). Therefore, there are two subdirectories with Mambo in each one, within the httpdocs directory on the server.
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?
http://www.taumata.co.uk Not pretty, but functional :)
Good networking,
Roger
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