I have been designing a site for my company www.vamoosevarmint.com for the past year, reading all info on SEO, and Links and what ever I could find to make a successful site. Launched the original site in June of 2005 with 11 pages just for web presence. This year I thought we could do a lot better. Two months ago added 28 pages with more content. Also changed the index page and added more internal pages. The Link campaign is now underway and adding a link or two a week. Resubmitted to the major three, and the site disappeared off of MSN, Yahoo, and Google for about 3 weeks. MSN was to first to come back, then Yahoo, but everything disappeared from Google except for the home page. I saw all the pages on some of Google servers using http://www.mcdar.net/dance/index.php tool and watched them slowly disappear from that. It has been six weeks now and still just the home page on Google is showing. I am showing top results on MSN. I cannot find anything wrong with the content on the pages that I have placed I don’t think I have over used the keywords on the pages, titles, or descriptions, I believe repeat content from page to page is low. I can only reference this data with the tools I have picked up off the forum here. Could I get some input from some of you. In Google search, I type in site:vamoosevarmint.com and receive a ….com page and …./index.htm page Then type in site:www.vamoosevarmint.com and receive the …..com page. Is this normal? Is there a time process (sandbox) for Yahoo before better results are shown? How long will I expect for Google to start showing the rest of my pages? Will submitting the separate pages to Google expedite the internal pages showing up? Did I do something wrong in my site? Am I just Impatient? I have only one home page I thought the http://www.vamoosevarmint.com/index.htm but when you enter http://www.vamoosevarmint.com it show the same page. Does Google or Yahoo consider this a duplicate page? If they do how do you fix this? Thanks for reading and adding your two cents worth. Dan
IMHO, adding 1 - 2 links per week is not much at all. There are many times I add much more than that per day! Also, some inbound links do not get uploaded on the other site for a week, month or more. As for other things that can help, have you added a Google sitemap to your site? I've seen this help to some small degree. The places you have links pointing to you, do they show up well in Google? This does matter!!! I am much more a proponent of quality link building which continues to work well for my clients. You might consider being a bit more agressive with that.
yes i do have a sitemap with google and has been submitted and is ok. as for being agressive, I work 16 hour days and then add links when time permits that is why only one per week. I have to set some kind of goal. I beleive they are quality links, since I do work with a lot of realestate i have been receiveing links from those companys with equal or greater pr than mine. Some say try getting a government links, but all the ones i find will not place a work for money company on their sites. dan
SEO is fine but there is something far above and before SEO valid code! see http://validator.w3.org/check?verbose=1&uri=http://www.vamoosevarmint.com/ Google always has been sensible for wrong code or invalid code and i have seen several sites dropping OUT of G just because of that. hence take some time to get valid pages and allow G another few weeks after all done to reindex all pages again make sure you are using a CLEAN and well-configured editor for your pages your pages are charset=iso-8859-1 your editor should also be configured charset=iso-8859-1 and you also should have a meta tag <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> all above done your pages should be valid - except for your background images ... i am sure you know how to solve that as well a fatal error such as charset messed up may kill google bot and hence have yoxu drop out of G index. always use the same well configured editor to avoid such problems in the future all G indexing starts at do,main root (index page ) if that has a fatal error ( fatal for G-bot ) then all linked pages are gone as well God bless
Hans I was using netmechanics code validator and it said it was a go, I will check out what you are saying thanks for the different angle. dan
the ultimate authority on the web for code validation always is w3.org and always on the online version as served by apache
Hans I installed <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> and made it passed this issue. by the way thank you for that input I have been reading on this but nothing was said that it would effect googlebot from indexing. this is the failure. Error Line 27 column 98: there is no attribute "BACKGROUND". ...lpadding="0" width="100%" background="/h_images/topfill.jpg" border="0"> I am unable to find the right information on this failure. how bad will this affect the googlebot from running my pages. dan
the background image-erroir has NO effect on Google bot or any other bot !! just looks bad if error in validation. you have about 4 or 5 such errors that occur one by one as you solve them i have never used bg pics in tables - henc eNO experience about that code see at http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/ more likely you find your solution in http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/l good luck
Hans Thank you for taking time in helping me. I made the adjustments as recommended. I hope this will help the Google issue i am having. Now will study up on what was done wrong with the background attribute. again your help is greatly appreciated. Dan
there is a paste-error in my below CSS URL that one should work http://www.w3.org/Style/CSS/learning i will be offline ( several km to travel for www ) until after holy week and online only for true emergencies hence i belief you may have to do the same i would have to do to solve the background image problem study tha many resources from w3.org to fine valid code solutions or just remove the bg image happy eastern