This may sound like a weird request, but it's not really. I'm basically looking to do example site reviews for a personal site I've going to be starting soon, to show off my skills, however I need site(s) to use. The ideal site should have as many of the standard SEO problems as possible - canonical issues, duplicate content, hideous URL structure, dead outgoing links, bad site structure, terrible internal linking, etc, etc. Basically, the worse the site the better so I can really go into detail. So, if you know of any sites with really bad problems, please post them here (or send me a PM) so I can sink my teeth into them. Don't worry, I'm only after the URL and so won't mention where I got from, etc, etc
Lol, if I had to review that site I'd still be writing up the list of problems when the end of the world comes
Try serviceatlanta.com, 00.com, or mod.go.th, lol. They're not mine btw, those sites are the ugliest I've ever seen.
Well, im going more for SEO-related problems and not really visual, however if the site design is crap, there's a good chance that it's not exactly an SEO-friendly site, lol. Well, I could do that Thai site except I can't understand the language
nice of you to realise that i'm effectively giving a free site review, wwpimpin, however you site doesn't have a crap ton of problems. Some things I've noticed right off the bat (note that this is typed hastely too, so if you're confused about anything I'll be glad to explain). also, logically these issues arent important for the "walled off" sections (ie, places you can only access by logging in): Canonical Issues: all links to the homepage should be the URL eg http://www.worldwidepimpin.com, not http://www.worldwidepimpin.com/index.php?ref= ALso, throw up a .htaccess file to do a 301 redirect from the non-www to the www version of the site (eg from worldwidepimpin.com to www.worldwidepimpin.com), or the other way round. Just as long as there's only 1 version of the URL structure. This will help prevent duplicate content issues. Every URL having a querystring: I'd be careful about have all the URLs having ?ref= on the end, as the URLs work without them, and if someone links a page and forgets to add it, bam duplicate content. Also, as that querystring seems to be tracking referrer ids (am I correct?) you will end up with a hectic duplicate content problem every time the search engines follow a referrer link to the site, as they will be presented with an ENTIRE site that is brand new (don't forget, site.com/index.php?ref=1 and site.com/index.php?ref=2 are considered two different pages...). Remember that we only want to present 1 version of the URL to the search engines. The solution to this particular problem is the remove ?ref= from every page, and use robots.txt to block any URL from the SEs that have that querystring (you can google how use wildcards in robots.txt). That way, your users can use the referrer links and the SEs will only index 1 version of each page Duplicate title tags and meta descriptions: Every page has the same title (the stuff between the <title></title> tags, as well as the same meta description. The title tags are an important ranking tool, and should also be unique for each page to avoid duplicate content problems. The same goes for the meta descriptions, however the SEs ignore them except for Google, who uses them as snippets under the listings in the SERPs. Thus, their only use is to encourage visitors clicks. ------------ Those where the first errors I saw, and should help you get started.