Is it legal for me to advertise my bravenet site on google?

Find my web site on a Google Search

• On February 13, 2003 my web site went public. www.StLouisHouseValue.com About a month ago I finally was able to search Google and find my web site, but soon after, I haven't been able to find it again. How do I get my web site to come up in a Google Search? I am planning to advertise on your side bar soon, but I'm not sure this will get my web site to come up in a Google Search. Dale Gentry

• Answer:

  Dear Hubster, Before I begin my answer, I want to make sure that you know that Google Answer Researchers, such as me, are not Google employees. What I write here is my own researched opinion and not an official Google position. I've found your site. You could also see it at: ://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=www.StLouisHouseValue.com+ That means that the site is in the Google Index, and if you won't violate their Terms of Service, it will continue to be there (if you want to know more about the Terms of Service and about Google's tips for Webmasters in general, visit ://www.google.com/webmasters/). However, a search, for example, for the terms <"St Louis" "House Value"> (://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=%22St+Louis%22+%22House+Value%22+) does not bring you up within the first, vital, results. This could be of several reasons: - Your site is not linked to enough sites; and is not linked to important sites at that; - Your site has too few or no keywords and meta-tags, that would help find it. In order to improve your ranking (although appearing among the first results is not guaranteed and very difficult indeed), you could try to link yourself to more sites (for example, sites about St. Lewis, about Real Estate in the area, about real-estate in general), either by contacting the sites' webmasters and asking them to link to your site (in other words: doing good PR to your site), or/and by entering some rich content, some article that people would like to read (and to link to), like an analysis of the market, recommendations and tips on housing, etc. Besides, you may want to improve your meta-tags and keywords. Regarding your plan to advertise in Google, I think it is a good idea. It is important to note, that advertising in the "ad words" scheme (where your link appears on the right-hand side of the results or above them, like the pink links in this case: ://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&q=%22St+Louis%22+House+Value), has nothing to do with appearing within the first results or with improving your ranking. However, it gives a site like yours the chance to break-in, to get noticed (and maybe also linked), despite the fact that it is not in the first results. I hope that answered your question. I wish your good luck with your site. I used my Google knowledge to answer this question. Please contact me if you need any clarification on my answer. I'd be pleased to clarify my answer before you rate it.