Teacher: How can I get Google to index my web site so it will appear when a Google search is initiated?
MTH: If you want your site to be indexed by Google, the best way is to submit your site to them yourself. They will usually get around to indexing it within a few months. The url to submit your site to Google is:
http://www.google.com/addurl/
As far as how to rank high on the search engines, there are a lot of misconceptions out there. First, many people think that meta keywords are the words Google looks at the rank your site. This is no longer true. Meta keywords are basically meaningless these days, and Google practically ignores them. Instead, it pulls the keywords from the content of your site itself.
Google does pay a lot of attention to external links, though. Your site will rank much better if you can get other high-ranking sites to link to yours.
A good resource to learn about search engine optimization and how to get good rankings is
www.seomoz.org.
About the Author
Ronnie Currey teaches guitar, bass guitar, piano and voice to over forty private students. He is also the the Music Teacher's Helper Director of Member Services as well as the editor for the blog and newsletter.
Ronnie was born in Chattanooga, Tennessee moving to the Denver area from Atlanta in 2000. Upon his arrival to Colorado Ronnie was hired by a Denver computer company as a sales executive, and within three months, promoted to manager. After nine months residing in Denver, Ronnie had signed up thirty private music students by leaving pamphlets at a local music store, and had to resign from his computer job. He currently teach between 40 and 45 students on guitar, piano, bass guitar and voice.
At age 8 Ronnie started piano lessons, and by 12 years old, he became a church organist and choir director for a 300 member church. When Beatlemania hit at age 14, he was motivated to learn guitar and bass guitar while continuing with piano lessons. Ronnie started teaching guitar and piano students at age 16 and attended the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, where he received a B.S. degree in Music Education and Psychology. In 2004 he received a teaching license and certification in music K-12 from the Colorado Department of Education. Ronnie has taught technolgy and music in the Douglas County School District in the Denver metro area since 2002.
-well thought out title tags (what appears at the top of your browser), "home" isn't a good title. "Home | Your Name, instrument" is better.
-Get incoming links. don't be afraid to contact people and ask to trade links.
-A good domain name. My website ranks high in searches because it has the words "guitar" and "blog" in it. When people search guitar blog, it comes up near to the top.
-CD
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