- Web publishing
- Search
- Site listing
Getting your site listed in Yale's search engine
First, use the Yale Google Search Appliance search form immediately below this paragraph to search for your Web site in Yale's master index. If you don't see your site in top of the search results, check through several pages of the search results to be sure that your content really isn't listed; it might be there, but only on page four of the results, for example.
Second: If your site does not appear in the Yale search results, please contact Yale's Webmaster and send us your site URL. We'll check to be sure your site and web server are on our list of sites to index for Yale web search. If your site is new, it may take as long as 48 hours for the new site to appear in Yale's search index.
We offer some general advice about increasing your search rankings and visibility if your content isn't coming up high in the search results.
Advice for new web sites
If your site is new, be sure that your new site is linked from as many related pages as possible (say, other major pages within your department such as the department home page), because the search engines can only find your site by following links from other pages it has found already. The more sites that link to your site, the higher your search visibility will be.
Advice for new web servers
If your site is hosted on a local department web server or is not in Yale's YaleSite content management system, you may need to contact us to be sure we know about your server, particularly if the web server you are using is new. Send us the URL for your site and we can add your information to our list of web servers to crawl to assemble Yale's master search index.
For web professionals
If you have been hiding your site from search engines while you develop it, make sure that you remove any "robots.txt" files from your site directories, and/or remove any "no search/no follow" meta tags in your page's HTML code, as the Yale search engine will honor these "no search" requests and bypass your site.
