Our site has been around for over a year. We are getting MSN and Yahoo crawlar coming to our site a lot but google is not coming that much, only 2-3%, which is very unusual. what can I do about this?
when i look at the indianherbcare site i see a totally screwed up source code ... hence go back to the basics and have your code - each page - VALIDATED by validator.w3.org to assure google too sees a clean code and clean meta tags instead of your present charset=<!--?php echo CHARSET; ?>"> or <title><!--?php echo TITLE ?></title> and similar fatal errors in code where SEO parts are expected to reside take some tiem to learn aobut your site and adjust/correct all details until fully valid and correct to the very best of all knowledge at any given time - this assures you get the bots welcomed again
I've read that there's such a thing as too many keywords, here's their keywords, is this too many and I also read you shouldn't repeat keywords over and over, so is this keyword set up all wrong?
That IS pretty spammy looking, C, but it isn't likely to prevent Googlebot from crawling the site. I'd say Hans may be correct when he identifies possible coding anomalies or errors -- I'm not sure what Googlebot will make of all this: <head> <!--meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=<!--?php echo CHARSET; ?>"> <!--?php // BOF: WebMakers.com Changed: Header Tag Controller v1.0 // Replaced by header_tags.php //if ( file_exists(DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'header_tags.php') ) { //require(DIR_WS_INCLUDES . 'header_tags.php'); } else { ?> <title><!--?php echo TITLE ?></title> <!--?php // here is just the old css echo THEMA_STYLE } // EOF: WebMakers.com Changed: Header Tag Controller v1.0 ?--> <META NAME="Reply-to" Content="Indian Herbal Medicine Products - Buy natural herbs, nutritional products and vitamin supplements, beauty care. Includes health articles and guarantee. Buy natural herbs, nutritional products and vitamin supplements, beauty care. Includes health articles and guarantee."> <META NAME="Description" Content="Indian Herbal Medicine Products - Buy natural herbs, nutritional products and vitamin supplements, beauty care. Includes health articles and guarantee. Buy natural herbs, nutritional products and vitamin supplements, beauty care. Includes health articles and guarantee."> <META NAME="Keywords" Content="Indian Herbal Medicine Products - herbal medicine, <snip> <title>Indian Herbal Medicine Products ,Indian Natural herbal remedy Products, Himalaya herbal products, Ayurveda Medicine and Ayurveda Products</title><base href="http://www.indianherbcare.com/"> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="stylesheet.css" > </head> Code (markup): There are some other errors, too -- see http://gritechnologies.com/tools/spider.go?q=www.indianherbcare.com and note the 404 not found errors in internal links from the home page. Also http://gritechnologies.com/tools/diagnostic.go?www.indianherbcare.com and http://gritechnologies.com/tools/spider.go?q=www.indianherbcare.com
minstrel since meta titles for example are missing he probably drops a few hudnred ranks in SERPS but i have seen specially googlebot being very sensitive/better UNable in handling error and often simply fails to crawl a page with certaiin code-syntax-errors one typcial error googelbot (at least a few months ago ) totally fails to handle is a LINEBRAKE within a meta tag content .... often google bot works fine UP TO the first fatal error - then skips the rest of the page or a large part of it ...
benjones82 webalizer is another program to anylize traffic and see the bots in fact many hosts have already a traffic tool installed - a few days ago i wanted to see the traffic of a hotel site and discuss a few points with its owner/chef ... he had none - but his host had without him knowing so i just checked hisdomain.com/webalizer hisdomain.com/statistics hisdomain.com/stats the latter surprisingly gave the desired onlien stats form webalizer his host had installed see what your host may have already installed on your site by default ! but benjones82 - for now you have little to fear from google or any other search eingine bot - your page lacks any metatags at all and hence there is litle to crawl and since you are in a market with many sites of similar content even daily crawliing helps little to get into top SERPS - here again its aboitu the very basic steps of SEO to support the bots and SE