Service includes Wordpress Design, Wordpress Installation, SEO, and monetization services (adsense, affiliates, etc..) $150 per site What you will get: - installation of latest Wordpress script (currently 2.2) - theme/template relevant to site/domain (custom logo can be added for additonal fee) - 6-10 plugins (more if needed/requested) - widgets (if needed and if requested) - SEO - will include meta keywords and meta description for all pages - rss feeds (if needed and if available) but remember "Unique Content is KING"!!! - Adsense integration ex's of sites: www.virtualkobe.com www.beautygym.com www.hillarynews.info www.virtualusvi.com www.bloids.com www.italianhomerecipes.com (you must provide the domain/hosting) Please PM me or submit post. Thank you Tony
You claim you're not offering SEO services, yet in two distinct places in your initial post (the one that started the thread) you're offering SEO services (in the title and the body). Regardless of whether those services are professional or nature is not up for debate. You're offering a service in exchange for financial consideration - in other words you're providing a professional service. I'm not trying to flame you or disrespect you, but you do need to take the basic principles into hand when offering services - especially in this industry. Valid HTML isn't about "Web design tutorials or courses" it's about getting the browsers (and assistive devices) on the same page. It's laying down the ground rules that everything else is going to follow, whether it's a stylesheet, script, or even a search engine spider. If you're going to develop a Web site for other people, you need to write valid code. There's no way around it. Not only will it save you time and money, but it'll also save your clients (the people you are selling to) time and money as well. Money they can spend on you later to provide additional functionality to their sites rather than cleaning up the next time a browser is upgraded. How does this affect SEO? A lot. Search engines read text, not presented Web pages. The sooner they can get to the text, the better they'll be able to index the pages and the higher they'll be more likely to rank in the results pages. I know this first hand - I'm creating a search engine site right now as it is. Let's take a quick look at the Kobe site, shall we (by the way, the Bulls don't want him in Chicago)? <head> <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/sbmgar/728177364/" title="IMG_1940"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1284/728177364_50cae329c4_s.jpg" alt="IMG_1940" /></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/sbmgar/710190756/" title="IMG_1913"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1363/710190756_b356a05abd_s.jpg" alt="IMG_1913" /></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/sbmgar/709961272/" title="IMG_1980"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1326/709961272_3764e7c5ae_s.jpg" alt="IMG_1980" /></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/sbmgar/709961050/" title="IMG_1942"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1167/709961050_c79dd36d19_s.jpg" alt="IMG_1942" /></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/sbmgar/709961358/" title="IMG_1984"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1289/709961358_c77f71a234_s.jpg" alt="IMG_1984" /></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/sbmgar/709961164/" title="IMG_1946"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1386/709961164_fe88bd51a6_s.jpg" alt="IMG_1946" /></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/micako/608665087/" title="Kobe could use a pair of nuts"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1007/608665087_a23601fff2_s.jpg" alt="Kobe could use a pair of nuts" /></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/9183441@N02/602418795/" title="KB24_com - wallpaper 0006"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1085/602418795_c45226e8f7_s.jpg" alt="KB24_com - wallpaper 0006" /></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/9183441@N02/602418653/" title="KB24_com - wallpaper 0005"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1217/602418653_8d35831e27_s.jpg" alt="KB24_com - wallpaper 0005" /></a><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/fashionable_male/597046519/" title="Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O'Neal"><img src="http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1177/597046519_43e93ef960_s.jpg" alt="Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O'Neal" /></a> <title>Virtual Kobe - Latest Kobe Bryant News, Trade Rumors, Kobe Bryany Photos</title> Code (markup): See those links in the HEAD section? Not only is that invalid HTML, but the search engines (especially Google) may look at that as a black hat SEO trick. Since the content doesn't appear to be visible in the page (remember, I'm just taking a quick look at this, as would a search engine), it would appear to a spider that the links are there to simply improve the SEO of a site. Which will just get the site permanently removed from the search engine, and in some cases can even get you sued (or worse, but not likely, arrested) for fraud. Put those links inside the BODY section, and make sure they're visible to the browser (which will kill two birds with one stone). Also be sure to add width and height attributes to your image tags, as well as the ever-important alt attribute. <!-- metas --> <meta name="keywords" content="kobe, kobe bryant, kobe trade rumors, kobe bryant trade rumor, kobe beef, kobe japan" /><!-- feel free to change this to reflect your site --> <meta name="Description" content="Latest Kobe Bryant News and Kobe Bryant Trade Rumors" /> Code (markup): <!-- Powered by AdSense-Deluxe WordPress Plugin v0.8 - http://www.acmetech.com/blog/adsense-deluxe/ --> <!-- all in one seo pack 0.6.2.7 --> <meta name="description" content="Virtual Kobe - All the latest trade rumors, news, photos, and information about everything Kobe! - Kobe Bryant, Kobe, Japan, Kobe Beef."/> <meta name="keywords" content="kobe, kobe beef, kobe bryant, kobe bryant biography, kobe steakhouse, kobe steak, kobe tai, about kobe, kobe bryant trade rumors, kobe bryant trade, kobe bryant los angeles lakers, kobe bryant photos"/> Code (markup): You're defining the meta description and keyword tags twice - search engines don't pay much attention to meta data anymore anyway, and since it's already been declared once, you can get rid of the other. Since you're using the plugin, just go into your header.php file and remove the HTML for the META tags. <h3 class="sec-title">Latest Article</h3> <h2 class="post-title"><a href="http://www.virtualkobe.com/2007/07/05/bryant-softens-his-stance-the-globe-and-mail/" title="Permanent link to Bryant softens his stance (The Globe and Mail)">Bryant softens his stance (The Globe and Mail)</a></h2> Code (markup): I'd make the H3 a H2 and the H2 an H3 (semantic order of headings). <center> Code (markup): Don't use this in a Strict DOCTYPE. If you are going to use it, use a TRANSITIONAL one instead. Besides, it's more code that the search engines need to wade through to get to your actual page content (along with the Google ads - I'd put those near the bottom as well). </br> Code (markup): I'm sure you meant <br /> instead. I'd fix that if I were you. In fact, I'd remove it entirely since it serves no structual purpose and assign it's purpose (most likey to provide white space or to start a new line) to CSS instead via margins and display: block on the image. <form id="archiveform" action=""> <select name="archive_chrono" onchange="window.location = (document.forms.archiveform.archive_chrono[document.forms.archiveform.archive_chrono.selectedIndex].value);"> <option value=''>Select Month</option> <option value='http://www.virtualkobe.com/2007/07/'> July 2007 </option> <option value='http://www.virtualkobe.com/2007/06/'> June 2007 </option> <option value='http://www.virtualkobe.com/2007/05/'> May 2007 </option> <option value='http://www.virtualkobe.com/2007/04/'> April 2007 </option> <option value='http://www.virtualkobe.com/2007/03/'> March 2007 </option> <option value='http://www.virtualkobe.com/2007/02/'> February 2007 </option> <option value='http://www.virtualkobe.com/2006/11/'> November 2006 </option> <option value='http://www.virtualkobe.com/2006/09/'> September 2006 </option> <option value='http://www.virtualkobe.com/2006/05/'> May 2006 </option> <option value='http://www.virtualkobe.com/2006/04/'> April 2006 </option> <option value='http://www.virtualkobe.com/2006/03/'> March 2006 </option> <option value='http://www.virtualkobe.com/2006/01/'> January 2006 </option> <option value='http://www.virtualkobe.com/2004/12/'> December 2004 </option> </select> </form> Code (markup): Just a validation nit-pick here. Add the method="" property to the FORM element. I suggest POST in this case. Also wrap your form contents around a DIV (that's nested inside the FORM element itself) or FIELDSET (if you use a fieldset, use the LEGEND element as well). 246 lines of HTML code later, and I'm now starting to see actual page content. That's not good from a search engine spider's point of view. I actually got tired (as in exhausted) from wading through all that code just to get to the text. Search engine spiders will probably feel the same way. I'm not saying the text won't be indexed, but it will take longer for them to do it, and may in the process miss some valuable text and keywords that you were hoping to target. Just a few things to keep in mind.
ok...Dan...the only problem is that i did now write any of these codes....this is how the wordpress theme that i happened to choose for virtual kobe comes....maybe we should be directing these issues to the actual designer of this wordpress theme.....
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