Site Hi-Jack

[John Ahern]

This may not be an entirely relevant question for this forum but can anyone
please tell me what's going on with GOOGLE? For many years in the past I
could do a search for any of my items/products contained in any of the 16/17
pages of my website and the search engines would find that page easily but
now GOOGLE has allowed various sites like 'Hotfrog' and 'Kellysearch' and
many others to HI-JACK my page titles and if you want to find my 'Lincot
Socks' (reg trademark), or 'Mattress Covers', Yakka Wear' or even MY NAME
'John Ahern' the results that come up will be these OTHER sites offering
links to MY pages (if you can ever find them in there - I can't!) and some
of the sites won't even allow you to reach ME until you register with THEM
first!! You hve to scroll through a hundred results before you find any
reference to my pages now.

Is there something I can do to rectify this when uploading my pages? Could
it be that I lost my rating when my site was down for a few days some weeks
ago and if so will it improve as time goes on? Would the number of 'hits' on
my site make a difference to it's rating? The other search engines are doing
the job OK but what's the use to my little business when most people are
using Google?

Any advise appreciated, John in South Australia

 

[Rob Giordano \(Crash\)]

Those pages link to you though, so they're not gonna hurt you...in fact
they're good for you. As far as your actual page not being on top...you need
to keep on top of SEO tactics.



| This may not be an entirely relevant question for this forum but can
anyone
| please tell me what's going on with GOOGLE? For many years in the past I
| could do a search for any of my items/products contained in any of the
16/17
| pages of my website and the search engines would find that page easily but
| now GOOGLE has allowed various sites like 'Hotfrog' and 'Kellysearch' and
| many others to HI-JACK my page titles and if you want to find my 'Lincot
| Socks' (reg trademark), or 'Mattress Covers', Yakka Wear' or even MY NAME
| 'John Ahern' the results that come up will be these OTHER sites offering
| links to MY pages (if you can ever find them in there - I can't!) and some
| of the sites won't even allow you to reach ME until you register with THEM
| first!! You hve to scroll through a hundred results before you find any
| reference to my pages now.
|
| Is there something I can do to rectify this when uploading my pages? Could
| it be that I lost my rating when my site was down for a few days some
weeks
| ago and if so will it improve as time goes on? Would the number of 'hits'
on
| my site make a difference to it's rating? The other search engines are
doing
| the job OK but what's the use to my little business when most people are
| using Google?
|
| Any advise appreciated, John in South Australia
|
|

 

[John Ahern]

Thanks Rob but....that's the problem - when you get to THOSE pages it's
usually impossible to find the link to MINE and some require you to register
with THEM before they allow you to see ME! how can that be better for me or
a potential customer when they type in my product name and can see LOTS of
references but can't get to ME??
And what is SEO ?
Thanks, John

 

[Rob Giordano \(Crash\)]

oh I understand believe me...but they still end up pointing to you which is
good...your job is to become a SEO expert (Search Engine Optimization). Do a
Google and you'll turn up lots of info and LOTS of junk offering to help you
if you pay them ( DON'T).

check:
http://www.dmoz.org/
http://searchenginewatch.com/webmasters/ this one has junk but some good
stuff too.

Also read the section in Google for webmasters...sorry I don't have time to
find the link, but it has lots of info there.



| Thanks Rob but....that's the problem - when you get to THOSE pages it's
| usually impossible to find the link to MINE and some require you to
register
| with THEM before they allow you to see ME! how can that be better for me
or
| a potential customer when they type in my product name and can see LOTS of
| references but can't get to ME??
| And what is SEO ?
| Thanks, John
|
|
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