Getting your site listed (or not listed) on
Yale's Google Search Appliance
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. We offer some general advice about increasing your search rankings and visibility if your content isn’t coming up high in the search results.
Make sure your site does not include a “robots.txt” file in your site directory, or meta tags in your page’s HTML code that are used to exclude search engines from your site.
If your site is new, be sure that your new site is linked from as many related pages as possible (say, other pages within your department like 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.
If your site is hosted a local department and is not on one of the major Yale Web servers (www.yale.edu, or info.med.yale.edu) you may need to contact us to be sure we know about your Web server, particularly if the server is new. Send us the URL for the home page of your site on your Web server and we can add your information to our list of severs to crawl to assemble Yale’s master search index.
If your Yale Web site content doesn’t seem to be listed in Yale’s search engine, please contact us with the home page URL of your Web site and we will add the URL to our search patterns if we don’t already cover your site and Web server. However, Yale’s Google Search Appliance is designed to search Yale Web sites. We cannot program the Google Search Appliance to search non-Yale sites that are not closely associated with official programs and activities of Yale University. Feel free to contact the Yale Webmaster Team if your have questions about Web search using Yale’s Google Search Appliance.
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