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I don’t get it. Any time this site shows up in Google there is no description. This means that Google doesn’t have a complete index of the site.

At one point Google had more complete information for this site, but for the last several months I’ve been stuck with the plain vanilla search listing. I’ve been waiting patiently for the problem to go away, but now I’m getting irritated.

andersja
September 1, 2002 1:10 PM

Adam, a few thoughts to help you on the way:

1) Your pages have no doctype devlared on top. Might not be fatal, but something to start with…? Even the W3C validator won’t validate your site without it, so Google might not know what to do with it…? http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fkalsey.com%2Fblog%2F2002%2F09%2Fgoogle_woes.stm&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline

2) Take a look at http://www.jacobsen.no/anders/blog/archives/2002/08/30/optimizingmovabletypepart5metatags.html for manually providing descriptions (at least they should be useful in other searchengines, as you yourself noted ;-)


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