[TAG] Search Engjne Spiders

[bob van der Poel]

Any light on how search engines like google work? I've recently moved my 
web stuff to the free site provided by my new ISP. For some reason 
google refuses to list any of my "really good stuff". And, doing some 
searches I don't think that any other (or very few) pages on this site 
are being found. My page http://users.xplornet.com/~bvdp has a fairly 
unique pattern I can test "wynndel broadband xplornet". So far the only 
hits are back to my OLD web pages which announce a move. BTW, those 
pages are gone.

I've discussed this with Xplornet and they have come to the conclusion 
that their site is "sandboxed", but don't know why, etc. And, frankly, 
I'm not sure they care much either :)

I have tried to "seed" things by filling out the google form (sorry, 
forget the exact spot right now).

I find the whole issue pretty interesting, especially since in the past 
when I've created new pages, etc. they have been found by google within 
hours. Days at the most. These new pages have been up for about a month 
now and not a hint from google.


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Bob van der Poel ** Wynndel, British Columbia, CANADA **
EMAIL: bvdp at xplornet.com
WWW:   http://users.xplornet.com/~bvdp