Help! My name is Danielle. I am trying to start a small part time business. I have a site created that works but it doesn't exist anywhere 
My site is aspirecareerservices.ca. I have registered it with Google, Yahoo, etc... and I still don't exist on the internet. It has been over a month since I tried this and STILL nothing.
I have just started my own little business and am getting NO work at all as I don't exist on the internet.
ANY help you could provide me regarding getting my website picked up by search engines (without spending a lot of $ lol) would be MUCH appreciated!
Renegade posted this at 19:31—3rd January 2007.
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Hi there Danielle, welcome to TWF.
It does take some time for a business to pick up on the internet. Depending on what it is you're "selling" it can take anywhere from a few hours to a few months, maybe even a few years.
What you may want to start doing is getting work by word of mouth. When business starts to pick up that way, more people should be visiting your site etc.
Try building up a small portfolio/showcase for your site as well
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samerin posted this at 04:55—4th January 2007.
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my website took 10 days to show up on google but hasnt showep up on yahoo and other search engines yet...just wait a little bit and im pretty sure it will show up Danielle good luck with your business:D
Jase posted this at 06:51—8th January 2007.
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See Im the opposite. My site is hardly in google but has a lot of links in yahoo. Its all different for different people. Try some other forms of advertising and see what works best for you
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Gannyaa posted this at 07:43—4th January 2007.
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My sites have taken over 3 months to finally appear on Google. I was getting worried too. Patience is key. Getting links is another good thing, to your website that is.
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OldWelshGuy posted this at 10:59—4th January 2007.
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Without backlinks it is unlikely any site will stay in the main google index, or get deeply crawled by the spiders. Links also count massively in the ranking algorithms.
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OldWelshGuy posted this at 10:34—8th January 2007.
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What do you mean by ;lots of links in yahoo'? There is no way to accurately check backlinks in Google as they have deliberately broken the link: command for some time now. Just because they are not displaying them though does not mean the links do not get counted by Google.
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gastongr posted this at 18:05—8th January 2007.
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That's right, if you expect to get traffic from search engines you need to optimize your website for your specific keywords and get links from other websites.
I'd recommend you to read a few SEO (Search Engine Optimization) related articles as there are many other things that should be considered when optimizing a website for search engines.
This will get you on the road http://www.mediacollege.com/internet/search-engines/seo/basics.html
After you read that search for other SEO tutorials and read them.
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void posted this at 12:49—9th January 2007.
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Don’t worry much about it as sooner or later the site will appear and it will get working. Concentrate on active link building which should be quality ones as it is one of the main aspect in getting the site full on. Your site is richer than others if it has more quality backlinks than the other sites and Google loves these rich sites. Utilize your time in other SEO techniques which will help your site get on the top search results once it is indexed.
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Megan posted this at 16:42—9th January 2007.
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For a site like this you're going to need to do some serious keyword research. This is a very competitive field so you will need to figure out what keywords will work for you. The home page in particular needs to have more good keywords on it. At the same time, this will give the user a clear idea of what you offer. Also work on optimizing the title tag (very important!) and on-page text including headers and links.
I recommend SEOmoz's beginner's guide to SEO. This should help you out a lot:
http://www.seomoz.org/beginners.php
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:D You could try to focus on the local area as a way to market your site. The whole internet is so saturated with career help. If you concentrate your efforts on the local area, even as wide as Toronto and S-W Ontario you could have a better chance. Offline marketing might be worthwhile too.
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Megan posted this at 15:07—10th January 2007.
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Here's an article on keyword research that might be helpful:
http://www.copyblogger.com/the-5-essential-elements-of-search-engine-keyword-research/
Another thing I forgot to mention is that you should get your site into Google Webmaster Tools and submit a sitemap there. That's what google would tell you to do if you asked them this question. Also read the google webmaster guidelines:
http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=35769
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