Don't want to make the same Google Mistakes again!

[ShadowCat]

A buddy and I developed a site a little more than a year ago and some how never managed to get picked up by google. We made it to #3 on MSN, but never appeared on anything but sponsored ads on google. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to get your rank up without mysteriously ticking off google.

[Liz]

I don't know if this is 100% true or not. But I think I heard some where that the more links you have of your site on different place the better you do with them. But I could be all wrong, that might be something else. I just heard that somewhere and I think it was Google. Other wise I suppose to you just email and ask what the deal is.

[Ang3r_D4nger]

Originally Posted by ShadowCat

A buddy and I developed a site a little more than a year ago and some how never managed to get picked up by google. We made it to #3 on MSN, but never appeared on anything but sponsored ads on google. Does anyone have any suggestions on how to get your rank up without mysteriously ticking off google.

Well, Google.com has spiders that index ALL pages on the internet that accessible by ordinary people. You don't really have to submit to them for you to get onto Google's index and spider list, but it would help to HAND-SUBMIT to their site submission page.
http://www.google.com/addurl/ is the site to submit your site by hand. I would NEVER suggest using those websites that say they will submit it to 100+ sites for free. Most SE don't like this and won't even index your page.
So remember, always hand-submit for better results.

Even though your site is over a year old, this is still a good piece of information for you and for people reading this.
GoogleBot, Google.com's spider/bot, take around 5-8 weeks to index submitted sites.

Now on to getting your site a better rank...
Don't just get links sent to your site, though they can help, but rather build good links that are also indexed high in Google.
Remember, quality content play a BIG ROLE in Google finding you when somebody searches for a specific word or phrase, if your site has those words or phrases then your going to get put up there. So remember, quality content is a MUST.
If you are a business and sell stuff to your customers, add a FREE promo since one of the top searches in Google has 'free' in it.

You can also check links that are on your site by using this in Google’s search box.
link:www.yourdomainname.ext

Hope that helps,
Ang3r_D4nger

[MadKad]

There is alot of SEO you can do including on site and off site to get good rankings. as for indexing and helping to rank doing what Ang3r_D4nger said will help in a masive way, backlinks also in your sig will help if a site or forum allow 3 links then use then 3 links up even link to internal pages as that can help.

Why I was talking about sigs, please can you remove that poker one, thank you