Ok I'm lost

Discussion in 'Search Engine Optimization' started by TcRoc, May 5, 2009.

  1. ArchiverB

    ArchiverB Member

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    #21
    As Canonical said mod rewrite should be available to you. Your site is using Apache/Linux.
     
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  2. TcRoc

    TcRoc Peon

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    #22
    Appreciate the insight but I'm in Newbie land,,everything you said I have no idea how to do ,,so I guess it's back to calling go daddy and asking them,

     
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  3. C-Note

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    #23
    Does GoDaddy employ Web Designers?

    It's your page structure that needs help, doubt GD will help with that
     
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  4. TcRoc

    TcRoc Peon

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    #24
    They offer web design ,I didn't take it ,,There customer service techs have been very helpful when I call in
     
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  5. TcRoc

    TcRoc Peon

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    #25
    Do you mean just have a Hyper link at the bottom of other pages that just take you back to my homepage?

    Also you say tons of issues,,what you listed doesn't sem like much.... ?
     
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  6. t2000q

    t2000q Prominent Member

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    #26
    dont forget good site maps :)
     
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  7. TcRoc

    TcRoc Peon

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    #27
    Alright bare with me again or someone just hang me.

    I went in and chose a preferred domain "www." last week on google webmasters , it says it still pending but when checking my page rank by NOT typing www. the rank is slipping away and now building with www.

    It also says theres no sitemap for www. ,,,,, I never sumittled one when I launched the site with No prefered name but shows one for that,,,where the heck do I get that site map to add to the www.

    Yes I'm lost all over again cause I'm a Tard but I'm trying here.

    If someone checks my page rank with http://solaratticfanstore.com and than http://www.solaratticfanstore.com it may help understand what I'm saying
     
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  8. Canonical

    Canonical Well-Known Member

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    #28
    Looks to me like your site is indexed at Google w/ the non-www version of your URLs. A search for URLs from your site indexed with www yields no results.

    There are two basic types of sitemaps. One is an XML file (usually named sitemap.xml) that you submit to the search engines to "assist" them in crawling your site. This is useful for brand new sites to help with the discovery process or sites with hundreds, thousands or millions of pages where you want to suggest to the search engine(s) which pages they should index first by prioritizing your pages.

    You don't have to use a sitemap.xml to have your site discovered. Google can discover your site without one as you've already seen (you're indexed and didn't submit one). They can discover it through other sites linking to your site... the old school way... However, as I mentioned it's a good way to prioritize which pages get indexed first if you have a lot of pages.

    The other sitemap that you should have is just an HTML page on your site with links to all of the major pages on your site. Typically you'd link to the sitemap page from at least your home page if not all of the pages on your site. It too will help Google crawl deep parts of your site by providing them links to follow. It also provides benefits to your site visitors by giving them quick links to various parts of the site.

    You can learn more about sitemap XML protocols at sitemap.org and Google's Webmaster Help page on sitemaps.
     
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  9. jtrzpis

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    #29
    Why is it better to use dashes and not underscores in the name?
     
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  10. TcRoc

    TcRoc Peon

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    #30
    How long does it take for google to pick up that I swithed to the preferred www.?

    Also with rankchecker I yeild better rank results when typing www. than not.

    I'm into Traffic Blazer,Webmaster Tools,Adwords, Google analytics now don't even remeber what else off the top off my head and think I may be hurting things more now than anything.
    Anybody In South Eastern Pa. that can help me for a fee?? Just to get me back on track


    Also Canonical,
    On MSN and Yahoo I'm on page 1 with the suggested keywords now ,,,,google ....way back........thanks for the help
     
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  11. Canonical

    Canonical Well-Known Member

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    #31
    It should come... Once you have done your on-page/on-site SEO work, switch focus to building links to your home page using the keyword phrases in the home page's <title> (and slight variations of those). As you get more inbound links, your Google rankings should steadily increase...
     
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