# META Why doesn't it work?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/meta-why-doesnt-it-work/23660>\
**Category:** programming\
**Created:** [June 20, 2003, 6:44pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/meta-why-doesnt-it-work/23660 "2003-06-20T18:44:44Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2003, 6:44pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/meta-why-doesnt-it-work/23660/1 "2003-06-20T18:44:44Z")

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ok, why can’t i get my site to come up on search results on google, or yahoo.

take a look at my html.

```php

<html>
<head>
<title>Digitalosophy v1. || Site Coming Soon ||</title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<meta name="keywords" content="digitalosophy, flash, actionscript, multimedia,lingo,interactive, showcase, portfolio, new york, flasher, designer, experimental, audio, design, flash, macromedia, director, animation,dreamweaver, photoshop, actionscript, lingo, programming, web master, developer">
<meta name="description" content="Design, actionscript, experiments, games, source files, showcase.">
</head>

```

now obviously I have doen pletny of searches on the web regarding meta, but nothin I do works… wtf???

what i want is when you go to google and type “digitalosphy” i want my site to come up. Thank you very much

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [June 20, 2003, 6:56pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/meta-why-doesnt-it-work/23660/2 "2003-06-20T18:56:11Z")

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Did you submit it to the search engines? You need to do that for the search engines will take forever to pick it up…

[http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/searchengines.htm](http://www.kirupa.com/developer/mx/searchengines.htm)

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2003, 2:00am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/meta-why-doesnt-it-work/23660/3 "2003-06-21T02:00:06Z")

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This page at Google gives some insight in how they rank pages.

> **[Our products | Google](https://www.google.com/about/products/)**
>
> Browse a comprehensive list of Google products designed to help you work and play, stay organized, get answers, keep in touch, grow your business, and more.

  
The key factors are **who links to you** and the actual **text content** of your site. If your site is primarily flash based, in order to get listed and ranked on Google you’ll need some topic relevant text on your index page.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2003, 2:04am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/meta-why-doesnt-it-work/23660/4 "2003-06-21T02:04:01Z")

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ok thanks guys