To include a personal article in search engines, your must have the Index your personal pages user account option enabled and the article must be public (i.e. not hidden and not invitiation-only).

Here are some ways to improve your search engine ranking:

• Pick an informative title: e.g. "Alaska Cruise 2006" is much better than "My Trip".
• Be descriptive in your writing and use full sentences. Tell a story alongside your photos.
• Avoid repetition and try to assign unique titles and descriptions to each of your photos.
• Publish the article as a travel article. Travel articles are more likely to be indexed by search engines.
• Get other sites to link to your article. Give out the URL to related sites and share it with relevant discussion groups.

1. Make the article hidden.
2. Make the article invitation-only.
3. Disable the Index your personal pages user option.

• Not every page is listed. Even Google can only index a fraction of all Web pages. (Web pages are being created faster than any search engine can index them.)
• Indexing is not immediate. A page might be created on May 1 and not be discovered by Google until sometime in July.
• Search engines are updated slowly. When you change the Index option the Worldisround search engine is updated almost instantaneously, but it could take weeks or months for Google to update its listings to either add or remove your pages. If you enable indexing, post something and then change your mind, your article may have already been indexed on Google and will remain there for a long time.
• Worldisround does not own Google. We cannot add, remove, or change your Google listings at will.
• Worldisround talks to search engines, but they don't always listen. We tell them to "please index this", "don't index that", or "come back in a week to look for changes". But search engines don't have to listen to us. They can't revisit the entire web every second so they must choose carefully when and which pages to visit, revisit and index.