Pew Internet & American Life Project
should be
Pew Internet & American Life Project
else you start to confuse bots
SERPS = search engine rank positions you have for a particular keyword or keyword combination in Google or Yahoo or any other SE ( search engine )
love the bots - serve clean code to make indexing easier
a quick view at
http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http%3A//www.garagespin.com/
also with other pages - will show you what to change in code
I am NOT familiar with movable type !
but
a quick view into the source created shows me that you have zero SEO ( search engine optimization )
that is quite normal for most blogs i saw so far. i guess bloggers care less for direct visitors from G or Y
most likely you can tweak that
i did so with my software
if you look at the source of any page
then you see a default page layout created by movable type
it should have for each page
1. an individual title meta tag for each post
1. an individual description tag for each post
1. a page H1 equal to title meta tag for each post
if i look at a sample page
http://www.garagespin.com/archives/2005/02/audio_recording.html
then i see
no title meta tag
no description meta tag
NO individual H1
but instead
<h1><a href="http://www.garagespin.com/" accesskey="1">GarageSpin: Garage Band Buzz</a></h1>
<h2>Garage Band Buzz. Digital audio home recording and indie music promotion. </h2>
also - most important - you waste valuable SEO space by having *GarageSpin: Garage Band Buzz* on each page in H1 and again *Garage Band Buzz* in H2
if GarageSpin: Garage Band Buzz is important then it should be as in my below details in large font paragraph only on each page as a text-banner and leave H1 / H2 for SEO relevant individual text only - it pays off !!
while in the actual post the
"Nick Lachey in Audio Recording Studio Reality Show"
seems to be the title for that post but it only is H3
if you plan to get direct visitors from web via SE - then you have work waiting for you
i had a somewhat similar situation for a different blog SW
i changed the templates that create the pages
i created different templates for the page shown /index.php and the pages shown when using the "Permalink"
i changed the MACROS my blog software used
i changed the external CSS
to do the following
the subject of a mail sent to the blog is used as
- title meta tag
- description metatag
- H1 that individual topic
while the banner still shows an equal text on each page on top - it is but a large font paragraph and no H title except when called as /index.php
hence i had to create a second set of templates / CSS
before my blog used ONE set for all pages
now it uses a template for /index.php
and in individualized template that is used as a.m. for each individual post as seen by search engines or users coming from search engines
i totally independent description metatag would have been better and ideal
but i am a total NON-programmer in php / MySQL and had to find an instant solution that automates all asap for me
the present situation creates a sufficient number of regular top 10 SERPS in G and a steady increasing traffic directly from G - that is proof enough for me that the present SEO works fine enough for me at this moment. later when i have excess time i may do some studying to get individual description meta tags as well
a blog that never creates systematically top SERPS is like a secret diary where you hide your personal secrets ...
may be for some the idea of a blog - a secret link to best friends only ...
myself i use it efficiently to publish content in addition to my static page publishings and forums.
your HTML code is almost clean and the existing smaller problems can easily be solved
the rest as a.m. needs some creative mind of you - and most likely also can be fixed if movable type has CSS and templates to create pages$
also a last point
when visiting directly a post such as a.m. sample page
you have NO Google adsense
hence you lose money
if you change your templates - you may as well include that template part of the /index page into each post-page to have Google adsense shown on each individual page if such is called as single page when visited from a G link .- else you may have NO optimized G adsense as well
another point is RSS newsfeed
i see that you have no RSS newsfeed created by your blog
my blog SW does that by default and the RSS feed is submitted by me to Yahoo news bot and many other RSS news feed directories and RSS bots as well as used by regular visitors
the RSS newsfeed - if available for your blog - is a most valuable additional promotion tool for the content you offer in your blog
good luck in your work