[sdiy][OT] why does google suck SO bad for finding my parts? Yahoo is on it!

[Bob Weigel]

No, actually I had meta tags in there at the beginning and found that it 
was intentionally ignoring them for whatever reason. I read someone 
where it said that the crawler just disregards them now for some reason 
and even alienates people for using them sometimes.  I don't know what 
to believe anymore.  There's some real 'ultra-hip-nerd-crowd' somewhere 
who has it all down I'm sure :-)

No I'm talking about the sitemap.xml file in my root directory. 

And yeah if you do a generic search it usually comes up with something 
in the first few pages at least amidst a stream of completely irrelevant 
links (Maybe 2 out of 30 hits will actually HAVE synth keys for sale at 
all..)  But I'm just wondering why some strings just flat don't show up 
like the one mentioned.   -Bob

Florian Anwander wrote:

> Hi Bob
>
>> I recently added the map thing whatever you call it that tells the 
>> crawler what to prioritize. 
>
> You mean the meta description? This must(!) be different from the 
> Headline (it should be a real description like "which key can be used 
> as sparepart for which type of synthesizer")
>
>
>
>> But in general...isn't google supposed to have SOMEWHERE in it's 
>> results every possible combination like that on any web page the 
>> crawler can reach?  It has SOME of the stuff from that page in it's 
>> listing so it *has* been there... -Bob
>
> I searched for ensoniq+key+replacement (or any other makers name) and 
> your page is alway within the first 20 hits on google.
>
> HI Bob
>
>