Search Engine Woes

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Mark Schoenfelder

I subscribed to a service that was to give me greater
exposure to search engines. I don't show up anywhere
unless I type the url into the browser window. Contacted
the service and they said it was code errors on my index
page. I need someone to walk me through the changes that
need to be made to allow the bots to find me. Authored
the page with Frontpage 2000. Url is
www.oldebaytrading.com

Mark
 
seperate your keywords with a " , " not ; leave 1 space
after the comma, dont repeat any words and remove the &

<meta http-equiv="keywords" content="&quot;duck, ducks,
waterfowl, waterfowler ,hunting, labrador, retriever,
collector ,auction, dealer, merganser, canvasback,
pintail, blackduck, widgeon, bluebill, ringbill, mallard,
bufflehead, curlew, heron, willet, egret, ruddy,
collectible, collectable, carver, carving, carved, folk
art, shucker, shucking, shucked, americana, shellfish,
clam, antique, decoy, decoys, oyster plate, oyster tin,
oyster, shorebird, shorebirds, goose, geese, hunting,
gunning, duck, hunter, sinkbox, waterfowl, swan, oyster
can, shourds, ward brothers ,birdsall,mitchell, antique,
heverin, guyette, eastern shore, chesapeake, oyster tins,
oyster cans, oyster plates, decoy show, havre de grace,
brant, crowell, wilcoxsen, elliston, hunter, ira hudson,
fish, fishing, spear, spearing, ice-fishing, spear-
fishing, zweig&quot;">
<meta http-equiv="description" content="Olde Bay Trading
Company offers for sale a wide variety of decoys, oyster
plates, oyster tins and wildfowl art for collectors from
novice to accomplished. Bookmark us as we are always
getting new items.">

Bill Schroyer
(e-mail address removed)
http://www.frontpagewiz.com
 
How long has your site been posted? Actually I didn't create my site in Frontpage but rather in Publisher 2003. It took 2 months for it to show up in Google and 3 for Yahoo. I didn't subscribe to a service. I submitted my URL more than once to as many sites as I could. You may just need to give it a little time? Not sure. Good luck to you!

www.microbusinessva.com
 
Mark Schoenfelder said:
I subscribed to a service that was to give me greater
exposure to search engines. I don't show up anywhere
unless I type the url into the browser window. Contacted
the service and they said it was code errors on my index
page. I need someone to walk me through the changes that
need to be made to allow the bots to find me. Authored
the page with Frontpage 2000. Url is
www.oldebaytrading.com

Mark
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Join this Free SEO (search engine optimisation) class ... follow the lessons
and you will get results.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/SEO_Techniques/

hth Tina
 
Bill,

Did what you suggested and republished. Check it out and
let me know what you think. Also, if there is anything
else you might be able to add that would give me better
exposure, I would appreciate it.

Mark
 
Leave a single space after the comma, right now itlooks
like you have non.

you have 2 "" at the beginning and end, make them 1 "
<meta name=""keywords" content="keyword1, key phrase 1,
keyword2"">
change to:
<meta name="keywords" content="keyword1, key phrase 1,
keyword2"> change to

Here a tip, use common mispellings on your keywords...hers
a post I added earlier, may help you:
I'm really stuck on this issue. My site
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(http://www.imagedraw.com/) has been
online since June 5, 2000. The site (non-commercial, hobby site) has become
more and more dedicated to Real-DRAW Pro (since March of 2002) and still
hosts tutorials for Image Composer and PhotoDraw. When I use certain words
to search for the site, it almost doesn't exist in Google. It does fairly
well in Yahoo!.

The search words and results from today:

real draw --- Google zero, Yahoo! 11th
real draw pro --- Google zero, Yahoo! 40
realdraw --- Google zero, Yahoo! 71
realdrawpro --- Google 33, Yahoo! 8
real-draw --- Google zero, Yahoo! 12
real-draw pro --- Google zero, Yahoo! 46

I've even contacted Google to ask what I can do differently. Got a generic
response that said that I should do pretty much what I'm doing.

I'm not trying to be number one or even real high in the rankings. I'd just
like to have people that are looking for Real-DRAW related sites to be able
to find mine.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Rich
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AThis is very tricky, at best. When I design a new site
and
the client wants good ranking I use a proffesional
service. There is way to much to keep up on as far as how
the search engines rank you.
I have web position gold for the rest of my clients, I
found this to be quite good.

A quick glimps a your page tells me you are not designing
for a good ranking on Google. First you are keyword
spamming. A real NO NO! Second Google currently likes
about 4 to 7 spaced paragraphs containing 2 to 4 sentences.
All keywords used in your meta tags should be used on the
page, your main keyword should be repeated 2 to 4 times.
Use bullet list. Set up a free forum, let users post
keyword rich content. Get your site linked, the more
people that link to you the better. By a small ad spot on
Google, watch your rankings go up, warning when you stop
paying I have found they go down. Alternative text for
pictures. <strong> <h1> <h2> tags, use your keyword in a
hyperlink. Use your keyword in the title of the page. BE
VERY CAREFUL about using tricks such as doorway pages,
frames pages etc. Search enginges will pentalize you for
doing this, Tricks require a lot of work to keep current!!

Bill Schroyer
(e-mail address removed)
http://www.frontpagewiz.com
 
Mark, if you get any leads on this let me know! I signed up with MSN Submit It! last week to make it 'easier' - it appears I am the one with MONTHS of recoding to do - and I'm a beginner while my site sits there in the shadows, there's no way I can decipher everything their 'Spider' programs says I have to do to submit. I'll touch base if that's okay, going batty trying to 'fix' all that the simpler option is supposed to provide. ps: live in NYC, family in Winc./Front Royal, VA....small world! Good luck to you. TCS
 
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