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Originally Posted by Naturally Simple
Black Rino
I am now listed on Yahoo but it is just showing my full name www.naturallysimple.co.uk - how do you get the meta tags to work? Any help at all would be appreciated.
Thank you.
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You've got rid of the framed pages which is a definite plus as far as the search engines go.
To get more than just your name showing on Yahoo or most of the other search engines you will have to wait until they re index your site. Sometimes this can happen quickly, other times it can take weeks or even months to happen. One way to help speed up the process is to increase the number of incoming links you have to your site, the more links you have, the more likely a spider will follow one to your site. Just because you see that a spider has visited your site from your site stats, doesn't necessarily mean that your site will be indexed imminently, it can still take time. You just have to be patient and keep working on those links.
You also have a similar problem with your HTML as Blackrhino. You have <html>, <head> and <body> tags within the main content of your page, the </body></html> signifies the end of useful content on your page and may stop some search bots from spidering the whole of each page. They may even prevent some browsers from displaying the page correctly. These superfluous tags need to be removed. If you need help to do this, just ask, someone on here will help you out.
This site will explain page structure in more detail
http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_intro.asp
If you are serious about running your own ecommerce site, then I would suggest you reconsider the use of Lycos or any of the other all in one packages. They may be easier to initially set up for the beginner, but they are very limited, expensive and you're putting your whole business in the hands of one company. If anything happens to Lycos (it can happen) then you're out of business. If you're using a stand alone package and your host goes out of business, you simply switch to another host, upload your files and you're back in action. You aren't dependent on any single company for your site, you are in 100% control of it. From about £50/year for hosting (can go up if your site starts to get very busy), you can have virtually an unlimited number of products, compare that to the price plan you are currently on. Search the net for hosting only packages to see what I mean. It's something worth considering.