I was euphoric when a friend of mine told me that my site was listed in Google. Searching through my webstats statistics, I found out that Googlebot spidered into my site on 13th January 2005, which means that it got listed in just 3 days!! To test it out yourself, type the keyword hemmy in Google and this site will be listed on the first entry. I have tested on Yahoo and MSN as well however my site was not listed in there although I have submitted my url. It would probably take some time since every search engine has different methods of indexing sites. Well, being listed in Google is a great start to get free and targetted traffic from search engines.
The description shown on the listing though is not coherent to the content of the website. This will require some research on how Google incorporates the description which most probably would have something to do with the meta tags in the html code. Another method would be to fiddle with the extracted content in order to define a good description.
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