making site searchable

I'm wondering how to make your site searchable by name, especially on
google. Right now my domain is basically my name [as one word] dot com,
and I would like to make it searchable so that when people type my name
in 2 words, my site will come up; right now, it only comes up in google
when you type my name as one word. I heard google ignores meta tags so I
don't even have any. How can i fix this?---thanks.

Gordon Hudson wrote:

"TheKeith" <no (AT) spam (DOT) com> wrote in message
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I'm wondering how to make your site searchable by name, especially on
google. Right now my domain is basically my name [as one word] dot com,
and I would like to make it searchable so that when people type my name in
2 words, my site will come up; right now, it only comes up in google when
you type my name as one word. I heard google ignores meta tags so I don't
even have any. How can i fix this?---thanks.


Mine comes up if you put my name in as two words.
It all depends how common your name is I suppose and what inward links there
are and what those inward links text is.



do you think it might help if i get other people i know to put something

like

'<div style="display:none"><a href="http://www.myname.com">my
name</a></div>'

somewhere in the body of their sites?

do you think it might help if i get other people i know to put something
like

'<div style="display:none"><a href="http://www.myname.com">my
name</a></div>'

somewhere in the body of their sites?

I do not think that to use <div style="display:none"> is the good idea -
like to play with fire. For now Google treats such elements truly - but
who knows, maybe in close future it will start banning such tricks.




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__/ [TheKeith] on Sunday 20 November 2005 21:06 \__

Gordon Hudson wrote:
"TheKeith" <no (AT) spam (DOT) com> wrote in message
news:t72dnZFuvrnHXh3enZ2dnUVZ_t-dnZ2d (AT) giganews (DOT) com...

I'm wondering how to make your site searchable by name, especially on
google. Right now my domain is basically my name [as one word] dot com,
and I would like to make it searchable so that when people type my name in
2 words, my site will come up; right now, it only comes up in google when
you type my name as one word. I heard google ignores meta tags so I don't
even have any. How can i fix this?---thanks.

Make sure your name appears in the <title> and maybe in <h1>. Beyond this,
you should mainly rely on incoming links with your name as the anchor text
(see below).

Mine comes up if you put my name in as two words.
It all depends how common your name is I suppose and what inward links
there are and what those inward links text is.

If your name, for example, was Keith Smith, you would struggle not only to
surpass professors and famous people with the same name. You may also
struggle to bear "Keith" and "Smith" arbitrarily appearing in different
places in a highly-ranked page.

do you think it might help if i get other people i know to put something
like

'<div style="display:none"><a href="http://www.myname.com">my
name</a></div>'

somewhere in the body of their sites?

<div style="font-size: 150%;"><a href="http://www.myname.com">my
name</a></div>

would be better. You must not hide content from human visitors for the sake
of SEO.

Roy

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Roy Schestowitz wrote:

__/ [TheKeith] on Sunday 20 November 2005 21:06 \__


Gordon Hudson wrote:

"TheKeith" <no (AT) spam (DOT) com> wrote in message
news:t72dnZFuvrnHXh3enZ2dnUVZ_t-dnZ2d (AT) giganews (DOT) com...


I'm wondering how to make your site searchable by name, especially on
google. Right now my domain is basically my name [as one word] dot com,
and I would like to make it searchable so that when people type my name in
2 words, my site will come up; right now, it only comes up in google when
you type my name as one word. I heard google ignores meta tags so I don't
even have any. How can i fix this?---thanks.



Make sure your name appears in the <title> and maybe in <h1>. Beyond this,
you should mainly rely on incoming links with your name as the anchor text
(see below).



Mine comes up if you put my name in as two words.
It all depends how common your name is I suppose and what inward links
there are and what those inward links text is.



If your name, for example, was Keith Smith, you would struggle not only to
surpass professors and famous people with the same name. You may also
struggle to bear "Keith" and "Smith" arbitrarily appearing in different
places in a highly-ranked page.



do you think it might help if i get other people i know to put something
like

'<div style="display:none"><a href="http://www.myname.com">my
name</a></div>'

somewhere in the body of their sites?



div style="font-size: 150%;"><a href="http://www.myname.com">my
name</a></div

would be better. You must not hide content from human visitors for the sake
of SEO.

Roy

hey thanks for your help guys.