I've Tried Almost Eveything But Google Is Not Showing My Site!?! Please Help!

We recently finished an amazing website that we all worked really hard on for The San Diego Golf Institute. You can view it here www.sandiegogolfinstitute.net
Its been live for about 2 months and when we do a search for "San Diego Golf Institute" in google about every other website that has to do with golf in san diego shows up except for ours. It seem that only our craigslist campains show up before our website.
After a month of nothing, I figured out that there were no keywords on the main page, so as you can see I added a bunch of keywords on the footer of the main page. I was hoping that would help with the SEO but still we're not being found! Can anyone here help us with this problem? Here is link again


www.sandiegogolfinstitute.net

 

The biggest problem with your site (beautiful site by the way) is that your entire home page is nothing but images. Even if you optimized them with ALT and TITLE tags, the site will still suffer. You need text, and an ample amount of it, before Google and others can understand what your site is about. Your footer paragraph is a good start - put more of that kind of stuff within the body area itself.

 

You have over usage of Javascript and non-necessary metatags! Manage it and you will come up high on the search engine very soon!

 

You need more meat on your image alts, for starters you main logo image has no alt text at all. That logo is a biggy to have text with.

Use sentences with your keywords in them for your image alt text.

As pointed out above you should have some text to start your page off with, even a small descriptive sentence or paragraph, then into your images.

 

And make sure to use your KEY keywords within your main opening sentence.

 

Thanks marktravellinks! I updated the the metatags and removed some of the unnecessary keywords. Am I still using too many?

 

Thanks abrown72! I'm going to add meat to my image alts, and update my logo image with alt text. Thanks so much for the help guys!

 

I know it is nice. But it does not help in search marketing. This is more like a business site for your clients to view at, rather then interested searchers who manage to find your site via search engine.

A lot of things to be done. You need extensive onpage optimization because you included all the things that harm SEO such as nested tables, javascript, excessive images, flash(OH MY GOODNESS) and missing tags with SEO values.

Spiders will not understand your site because the first 20 lines are blocking the spider's way by including javascript. However, these problems can still be solved if onpage SEO is done properly. Visit my Web Book to read more on search engine optimization here. Url : http://www.ezbusinessneeds.com

 

Damn thats allot of good info EzBusinessNeeds.com! Looks like its time to pass this one back to the coders to have them touch up all the flash and java.
Could you please explain "missing tags with SEO values" ? I'm not sure if I follow you there? Thanks again!

 

Allot of the sites we have done use allot of java and nested tables but it does not seem to effect SEO. I will have to tone it down a bit I guess. Just take a look at our own website. http://www.jvfconsulting.com

I don't see the first 20 lines containing any javascript at all! Am I missing something? Which line do you see is causing the problem?

 

Keep bloging your site use word press and social book marks

 

If I was in your shoes, I would be tempted to not focus on seo as much as highly targeted ppc. Your site is really beautiful. You need so many changes and additions to make it on-site seo friendly... I'm not sure that it's worth it. A ppc campaign that is targeted towards golfers in your region would allow you to not make any real changes, and to find truly interested customers that might visit you.

Just a thought. Very nice site again!

 

Thanks for the compliment and the advise gtull1! Unfortunately the client is the one worries about SEO and being found on Google, but at the same time he wants all the flash and java going on. I'm trying to keep a happy medium and do the best we can on the SEO making sure we covered all bases. If there is anything else rather easy to update or change as far as SEO goes shoot the ideas my way. Thanks again everyone! You all have been a big help!

 

I agree with the java and flash issue. I also see an excessivly large title that might be a hinderance. Right now, I have sites that I am trying tableless designs on to see if it helps any. I diddnt search for h1,' etc either. Need more text as others have stated. You have a rating of "Safe For Kids", might as well go get the free ICRA tag (icra.org), its just another meta tag. I'd add more text at the top if possible and increase your keyword "strength" in the bottom paragraph of text. Use some bold and italics. Awesome sight though. However, I'm not a golfer... I spend way too much time on my sites! Good luck with the optimization. PS - The sites in my signature aren't mine, I loaned my space out, However, this guys crawfish page (view his source) has alot of potential to rank well for the keyword crawfish. View his source, and you'll see how he has implemented his keywords...

 

you have good design on your site you still need visitors Blogg it and book mark it as much as possible try wordpress blogs

 

If you do not want to change the first page, you can concentrate on other pages with text. Concentrate on long tail and at least searchers can search your other pages in the website.

 

Golfing has always been popular great domain and design get your word press blogs

 

I don't know if it has been put up but <h1> tags are essential in my experience for seo. Add it above you navigation side bar a sentence like San Diego Golf Institute helping everyone learn golf.

Shmoe

 

You're correct about this! Google indexes all my other pages with ease, the contact us page is where most people end up entering at...

 

Thanks for the tip Shmoe! I've always heard about using those. Is my memery serving me correct here...
<h1> tags only make the font larger? Most of our sites use style tags. So you're saying that Google will index my page because the font is larger?