Frequently Asked Questions
Q: If I submitted my site and it's not showing up, does this mean it's been
banned?
A:
I submitted my site [manually] [automatically] [last week] [last month] [3 days
ago] and it's not showing up in any of the search engines. Have I been
penalized/banned?
If the site you submitted doesn't have any deceptive qualities, then no, you're
not banned or penalized. However, all the submissions in the world won't get
your site listed or bring search engine traffic if there aren't links pointing
to it from other sites -- and if it's not optimized for specific keyword
phrases. As I've mentioned elsewhere submitting to search engines is not
necessary nor even helpful. The search engines automatically find new pages on
their own.
As with everything SEO related, the keys here are patience and time. If you
don't have both of those, you might as well get out of the SEO game right now
and simply buy your way into the search engines through PPC ads.
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Q: Will switching server hosts affect my search engine rankings?
A:
I get no respect from my current Web host so I'm switching providers. Will this
affect my search engine rankings?
No, it won't affect your rankings, but it wouldn't hurt to leave your site up on
the old host for about a month to ensure that the DNS propagates across the Web
and that the search spiders are indexing the pages at the new host. Once you see
the spiders in your log files at the new host, it should be safe to take down
the site at the old server.