Doi's Craft Room Needs A Crawl Before It Can Run
Tim and Diane requested my free SEO help file for their doll clothing and therapeutic herbal packs website.
Using the Google Toolbar to take a look at the home page cache, I get this page http://giftablesshop.com/ as the URL with a page rank of 4. A site: search at Google shows no content from dioscraftroom.com in the index.
The funky JavaScript navigation in the footer of the home page is not crawlable (meaning Google cannot follow your links) and the content that shows up when I follow the link to a page is in frames. If you open one of the pages in your browser and do a view source or view page source in Mozilla you can read the code and see that none of the content in the page contains information related to the visible page content. If the spiders and robots cannot read your content you cannot get a ranking for anything.
First step is a significant redesign of the way your website functions. And you need more content, content that is crawlable. You need a sitemap, xml sitemap, registration with Google and Yahoo, a robots.txt file.
Beyond that, you have a lot of other work to do including targeting your pages based on search phrase research, tags and title work.
It can all be fixed, that's the good news.
Regarding the web design, I have said this before and will say it again - you should crawl your website before or as soon as it goes online to make sure your content is crawlable. This is one of the funkiest web design schemes I have looked at in the past year, lots of script complexity that serves no useful purpose I can think of. Simple works. Find someone else with PageRank higher than zero to help you redesign your website.
Cheers,
Ron Castle
Using the Google Toolbar to take a look at the home page cache, I get this page http://giftablesshop.com/ as the URL with a page rank of 4. A site: search at Google shows no content from dioscraftroom.com in the index.
The funky JavaScript navigation in the footer of the home page is not crawlable (meaning Google cannot follow your links) and the content that shows up when I follow the link to a page is in frames. If you open one of the pages in your browser and do a view source or view page source in Mozilla you can read the code and see that none of the content in the page contains information related to the visible page content. If the spiders and robots cannot read your content you cannot get a ranking for anything.
First step is a significant redesign of the way your website functions. And you need more content, content that is crawlable. You need a sitemap, xml sitemap, registration with Google and Yahoo, a robots.txt file.
Beyond that, you have a lot of other work to do including targeting your pages based on search phrase research, tags and title work.
It can all be fixed, that's the good news.
Regarding the web design, I have said this before and will say it again - you should crawl your website before or as soon as it goes online to make sure your content is crawlable. This is one of the funkiest web design schemes I have looked at in the past year, lots of script complexity that serves no useful purpose I can think of. Simple works. Find someone else with PageRank higher than zero to help you redesign your website.
Cheers,
Ron Castle
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