Mood:  quizzical

I don't understand search engines. I thought once a search engine found your site, you were found for good. Not so with my site. Search engines seem to find me -- and lose me again -- on a regular basis. I'd enter my exact site name into Google and Yahoo, but the site wouldn't come up in the results. Even the exact URL wouldn't get a result.

I added all the keywords and meta tags and such to my site, and I started to get a few results. With the exact URL, Google could find my site. But doing a search with the site name still wouldn't find the site.

Then Yahoo found the site, and you could get the site to come up in search results by either the site name or the URL. Well, Yahoo! Things were looking up! And it got better! By mid-July I discovered a few people were actually finding the site with keywords, usually by using Yahoo powered search engines.

Then boom!...about a week into August, I was right back where I started. Not only did people stop finding the site using keywords, but entering the exact site name or URL into Yahoo didn't find the site. Yahoo had lost me again. I entered the site name into Google, and voila, it worked! That lasted about two days. Then Google lost me again, too.

It's pretty hard to bring people to the site when the search engines can't find my site. And when they do find it, they seem to lose it again just as fast. How to be found -- and stay found -- by the search engines is unfortunately a mystery I haven't unravelled yet.  So I'm very grateful for the few people who are visiting!

Listening to: Dishwalla - Opaline