FYI: your homepage alone has 11 html errors and 124 warning, nor does it display well in firefox. You also have a redirect from your domian to http: //www .rapdrums. com/catalog/customer/home.php This action dependent on how performed may limit PR flow through your site.
Yea, its been 3 months. I thought PR was still active even if it wasnt visibly updated yet. So I should still be ranking higher than nothing in actuality. I know that people say it's not true, but when I join the sponsored results program do you think it could help increase my regular listing. Google likes people who pay them...
You're not penalized. If you were, Google would show zero pages in the index using the site: query. No.
If it ain't there, it ain't there... I'd give it some time. Concentrate on getting some more high quality back links... You're thinking of yahoo.... I would not do it!
I'm not sure what you mean by "11 html errors" and "124 warning" can you give a little more detailed information on these issues. The firefox issue is being handled by my programmers as we speak. Even though I have a redirect, all my links point to www.rapdrums.com and not the extended link. Is this the correct way to do it?
By HTML errors he mean that some HTML is not completely as per the standards.Like a "P" tag was opened and another one started before closing it . There are tons of mistakes you can do which will result in html errors. You can check at http://validator.w3.org/ Then fix the errors. About page rank , you will have to first get links from websites that have page rank of their own .When google counts it as a link to your site you will get page rank . Someone mentioned above that you should submit your site to web directories. Those are sites with page rank ... Follow that advise . There's a list of directories at http://www.best-web-directories.com/ Submit your site to as many as you can and you will get PR as you want ... regards jeet
Do any of those directories listed on that website count as spam links that could potentially hurt me?
Thanks for all the help. I have 2 quick questions left and they're kind of unrelated, but the forums wouldn't let me start a new thread... 1) Anyway, why is google showing such a strange version of my website in the cache? The cache of some of the pages are perfect, but the home page is not. Look: Home page cache: the "site under construction" part was there, but everything else looked the way the site does now, not white and messed up [I cant post links yet, according to the forum rules, but just search "rapdrums" and look at the first 2 that come up] Testimonial page cache: perfect representation Is there something wrong with the home page code that is making it do that? 2) The side areas on the left and right are using black text over a white/orange image. Is google recognizing this as black text over a black background since my page background is black? Could this be hurting me? If it is, how can I change that without changing the font color? Thanks again
1) Search engine indexing is a slow process and so is the caching. You may not see your new pages for weeks or months. 2) No Good luck.
My guess is those coding errors Server Union mentioned earlier are the reasons for the messed up cache.
If it makes you feel better, I have had pages stuck in the cache for about 9 months that had errors on them. Google finally got around the updating them.
I'm not sure if that makes me feel better or worse. It still doesn't make any sense to me that the other pages of my site were cached properly, because they have the same html errors on them.
Hi rapdrums You need to link exchange with other site, build your link popularity as much as you can.
...within reason. Don't just trade with anyone. Stick to sites that relate to your subject matter and are quality. If you really care about PR, select only sites that rank, but remember, if a site is quality, a link now may become more valuable in the future.
Fix ALL the errors and see what happens. I think it's highly unlikely that they are the same errors in the same places, unless the pages are exact duplicates. The thing about coding errors is you don't know how browsers and spiders will try to make sense of the mess - basically, they'll try to guess what it was you intended with the messed up code and they may not guess correctly.
Most of the errors are in the header and the side tables that appear in every page so most of the errors are the same. I'm not a programmer though, so I'll have to get my website designer to go through and fix it. Do you think it's their responsibility to make sure there's no errors? On a side note, google.com has 51 errors...