Not getting listed in search engines ?

[Benj]

Hi,
I recently submitted my site with the deadlock promition artist software.

I did it on monday, and today (friday) I notice my site isn't in any search engine. I tried a search on my domain name in alstavista, infoseek, hotbot, it returns no result.

Usually, those robot search engine include your site rapidly, I don't understant why I don't get any result even on a search with Copernic (http://www.copernic.com) ?

Instead of submitting http://www.mysite.com I sumbmitted http://www.mysite.com/index.shtml, could this be the problem ?

Thanks,
Benj

[Dan Kaplan]

altavista is usually quick, sometimes as little as a day or two, but sometimes several weeks.[nbsp][nbsp]I believe HotBot is still saying it takes 60 days, and InfoSeek says one week, although I think it takes them that long just to consider processing the submission while stirring their coffee...[nbsp][nbsp]Then there's the great unknown of how many times per decade the databases are updated...

Decade

[Benj]

Well its been a while I didn't created and submitted a site to search engines(several month).

I'm amazed to see that ALL the search engines are more slow than before. Shouldn't technology progress suposed to speed up everything ?

If I knew, I would have submitted my site index page before.
Now my site is up and need traffic, and is totaly unknown from the search engie :(

Bad, I tell you :(

Benj

[Dan Kaplan]

Patience is the key.[nbsp][nbsp]Submitting a site before it's ready is not a good idea.[nbsp][nbsp]What happens if the submission actually goes through quickly?[nbsp][nbsp]Then you have visitors turned off by under construction rubbage.

People are going to use the major SE's regardless of how up to date they are.[nbsp][nbsp]The average surfer has no concept of how many weeks old the newest addition is.[nbsp][nbsp]There is little incentive for the big guys to divert resources to getting caught up; they're already established and pretty complete.[nbsp][nbsp]It doesn't help the catching up process that more and more sites are being created and submited daily.

Hint:[nbsp][nbsp]You can always develop "hand shake" partnerships and traffic with other sites.[nbsp][nbsp]SE's probably produce less than half my traffic these days due to having established other angles.

Dan

[Brian]

Yes, the key to traffic lies in strategic alliances.

-Brian

[Benj]

Ok now I can find my site in Altavista by typing mydomain.com, but it seems it has just indexed my index.shtml page link: no keyword, no other page, nothing, just a link to my front page.

Does it needs more time to really spider ?

Thanks,
Benj