Search engines and EE photo pages

[stevehof]

A friend and I have both recently started EE based web sites. We are having trouble getting pages listed with Google. My listings have been stable with about 32 photo pages listed out of a total of about 420 and his fluctuate wildly day to day between 0 and 100 pages out of 100+ total. We've noticed that Pekka has about 600 pages listed with Google and the number doesn't vary. We have both made a php page that generates links for every photo page in the site, like a TOC or site map. This hasn't seemed to help. Does anybody know what it takes to get Google to list dynamic PHP pages? Since my friend's pages fluctuate so wildly, I don't think it has to do with placement of meta descriptions or keywords and matching text in body.

Thanks,

[Pekka]

I have seen a trend in search engines ignoring meta tags completely and using title of page (i.e. photo name) and some of the page text only for indexing. This is why photo name should really tell something about a photo and not be like "Tom 1", "Tom 2", "Tom 3". Repetitive words in title and text help too if not too many. E.g. placing tons of same keywords in source code is considered as spam by search robots.

Site indexing is also often based on popularity of a site i.e. how many OTHER pages link to your pages.

Search engine indexers are very busy, too. I once did a unlinked page with very distinctive nonsense words and fed it to the engines - it took from 6 weeks to year to get the page listed to some engines.

If you have any good ideas for getting indexing robots more interested in gallery pages then let me know :)