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Below are the details you will need to know to get added to The Desert Realm's search engine.

Your webpage must contain a title tag which is used in the search results. It's also preferred to have a meta description tag because that is what's used for your description.

To keep the index clean, the website cannot contain profanity, racist language, or pornographic content. Since many words can have multiple meanings, words are scored according to a weighted system. Some words are weighted less and thus must contain more than one bad word in order to be banned from the index.

Your webpage must contain enough words related to the fantasy or science fiction genre to be considered a good hit. For example, words such as fantasy, magic, castle, and wizard are all good words. However, since there are many fantasy baseball, fantasy football, and fantasy stock market sites that have nothing to do with medieval fantasy, these other words are deducted from the overall score.

The webpage must be considered a "homepage". This includes the domain and up to one folder deep without a specific filename. Common default pages such as index.html are removed when the spider attempts to download a page. For example, www.desertrealm.com and www.desertrealm.com/search are valid homepages. If the spider sees a link to www.desertrealm.com/search/index.html, it will try to download www.desertrealm.com/search instead. Other webpages are scanned for links to other pages, but they will never show up in a search. Don't try to trick the spider by creating a ton of folders. It looks for things like that and will ban your site when it catches you.

The spider is robots.txt and robots meta compliant. What this means is that if you do not want the spider to visit certain pages of your site, you should include the information in either your robots.txt file or a special meta tag called robots. The spider looks for desertrealm, desert realm, and * for the user-agent. For more information, go to www.robotstxt.org. Also, to avoid webmasters from becoming upset with the spider, the spider goes to other sites before it will attempt a new download from your site. Once it reaches 10 page downloads for a particular domain/folder, it won't go back until a new spider session has started. For example, if the spider went to 10 pages in the www.desertrealm.com/search folder, it would avoid going back to that folder until the spider has been reset. The decision was made to base it by folder since many large free hosting sites use the first folder as a website distinction.

Report a problem, if our spider has accessed your website too much.