Hi all wondering if u can maybe give me some help on a search engine problem im having

We are doing a new site now about 2 months old
and are not indexed in any search engines

our old site i had us in top 10 in about 3 dif searches

our logs show we hafe been crawled by google yahoo altavista all the major ones

but nothing here is where i think my problem is

i do not have any head tags in my page on this one

im including a meta.php file for my headers

ie .

<? Include("/www/htdocs/meta.php"); ?>

meta.php has all my head title keywords description and other tags in it

will the spiders read this include could this be where my problem is ?

Are there other sites that link to you? In the case at least of Google, you won't appear in their index unless at least one other site that they've indexed links to you. My evidence suggests that it probably takes more than that -- you need to be linked by a site with a pretty solid PageRank itself (probably at least a 4) before they'll keep you in their index.

In the case of AltaVista, they are very far behind in their indexing -- if you've been crawled in the past couple of months, it's still too soon.

Yahoo doesn't crawl, so you must be mistaken about that one.


Putting your meta tags in a separate file as you describe shouldn't, in theory, impact your search engine placement. Still, I wouldn't do it -- what's the advantage?

right now there are about 45 sites linking to us

We have over 250 pages
and i put those includes there so its easy for me to change them

google.yahoo/crawl was the one i assumed was yahoo

ill work on it some more as this is first time i have included my header information this way and ive always been able to get on top 10 of searches maybe not in the 1st couple months but i dont understand why im not indexed yet. at google at least google has always been great once i get indexed it seems like very other week they have it updated so ill work some more on it

=) got er fixed

ranked 4 in google

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=gaming+files

and listed in yahoo working on that rank =)