Sandvox sites and search engines
Once you publish a site, you probably want to add it to one or more search engines (e.g. Google) so that other people can find it.
Sandvox automatically organizes sites to be easily searchable.
- The correct HTML tags (such as
<h1>,<h2>and<title>) are used. - All text is searchable.
- Graphical site elements also include a text version that search engines can understand.
- You can add keywords to a page to enhance searchability.
Pro Tip: With Sandvox Pro you can view the text equivalent of graphical site elements by choosing the "View → Web View → Without Styles" menu.
Each search engine has its own way of adding sites into its central index. Most will automatically pick up your site over time as other sites link to it. If you are not seeing your site when searching, it may simply be that not enough people are linking to it to make the site reach the top of Google's list. Try asking other suitable sites to link to you.
You can also request a search engine to include your site specifically. For three of the most popular search engines, their submission pages are:
With Google and Sandvox Pro, you can have even more control over how they index your site by signing up your website. Please see the "Google Integration" article for more information.
Here are some other articles about Google's search facilities that might be of some help to you (the technical aspects about how pages should be organized are already taken care of by Sandvox, but the textual content, inbound links, keywords, etc. are up to you):
