HI, i recently submitted my site to most the major search engines, and optimized it with meta tags, however, i cannot find it when i search, i can only find it on MSN Live search when i type the exact name of my site, the search engine wont pick up keywords or find my sub pages. I set up my site with Frontpage and i have Host Monster as my hosting service. i dont use frames but i used the shared borders feature on frontpage. But i read somewhere that a search engines cant find links on a site that are image links, and i used image buttons on the shared borders navigation section, so at the bottom of each page i put regular text links to each page, was this a good thing? Because i also read that too many links can cause your site to be spam and it will be "sandboxed", what does this mean? Basically i want to know if there is anything i can do to make my site more findable by the search engines, including my subpages, other than the things ive done, and is there anything i should not do? Does it just take some time for the search engines to find my site, i did all the submissions last weekend(4th-5th).
Also, when updating, i delete the files i want to replace and then upload the updated files, for example my home is index.htm, so i delete the index.htm file from my website then replace it with the new index.htm on my computer. Am i doing this right? it works but im wondering if doing this will make my site be lost on the search engines that do pick it up. do i need to re submit my site to search engines every time i update because i have to update often. or will the search engines keep my site listed?
Thanks in advance for any help.
Also, when updating, i delete the files i want to replace and then upload the updated files, for example my home is index.htm, so i delete the index.htm file from my website then replace it with the new index.htm on my computer. Am i doing this right? it works but im wondering if doing this will make my site be lost on the search engines that do pick it up. do i need to re submit my site to search engines every time i update because i have to update often. or will the search engines keep my site listed?
Thanks in advance for any help.