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Many webmasters have the problem that their Web site is not listed in search engines at all. There can be a variety of reasons that your Web site doesn't show up on search engines.

#7: Your Web Pages Are Created Dynamically

Databases and dynamically generated Web pages are great tools to manage the contents of big Web sites. Imagine you'd have to manage the Web site contents of the New York Times without databases...

Unfortunately, dynamically generated Web pages can be a nightmare for search engine spiders because the pages don't actually exist until they are requested. A search engine spider is not going to be able to select all necessary variables on the submit page.

The exceptions are the spider programs from Google and Inktomi. They are able to index Web pages that are dynamically generated, even those that use question marks and query strings.

#8: You Have Moved Your Site To A New Server

Every time you move a Web site to a Web hosting company, or when you change the domain name, the IP/DNS address of your domain name changes. While people see URLs (www.yourdomain.com), search engines often only see IP addresses.

This means that you need to re-submit your Web site to all search engines and directories when you move your Web site to a new Web hosting company or when you change your domain name. In time, search engines will realize that your IP/DNS address has changed and will remove the old IP address from their index.

It's important that you re-submit only when the move is completely finished. A good way to know when the IP address change has been updated is to upload a slightly different version of the index page to the new server. When you enter www.yourdomain.com in your Web browser and see the different version you'll know that DNS servers of your ISP (Internet Service Provider) have been updated.

If you have changed your server, resubmit your Web site URL to search engines. If you have changed your domain name, you should also change your Yahoo and Open Directory Project listings.

If you want to change your Yahoo listing, go to:

http://add.yahoo.com/fast/change

If you want to change your Open Directory Project listing:

1. Go to " http://dmoz.org/ ".
2. First locate the category in which the site appears in (search for your domain name), and go to that category.
3. Click the Update URL link at the top of the Web page.
4. Enter the URL of the Web site you would like to update.
5. A new page loads where you can make changes.
6. Click the Update URL button once you've finished with the changes.

If you change your domain name, it's likely that you lose your old visitors. Here's advice how to reduce the loss of visitors:

http://www.thesitewizard.com/news/movinghosts.shtml

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