Top Ranking on website

[Brian Turner]

Originally Posted by rudeboy500

Hi Brian sorry to dissapoint you!!!!
but this is the first time i am building a website
so you will have to bare with me
please keep your opinions comming so next time i know what the internet surfers are looking for
thanks
Rudeboy500

Ok, no probs, and apologies if I was so hard on you - it's just that when you stated that you'd covered all keywords, and that your site deserved to rank, I presumed ... well, that the site would be at a higher standard!!

But kudos for building your first website and best of luck for developing it further.

What you should probably take a look at is search engine friendliness - it's a key issue in any website platform, and design elements can always be built on top.

Google have actually published a SEO guide which is definitely worth reading up on: http://www.google.com/webmasters/doc...rter-guide.pdf

Hope that helps.

[MichaelWall]

As Brian pointed out, the home page has no content!

Go to Google, do a search for your site 'indived.com' then click on the cached button, then top right click on 'text version' and you'll see what Google sees.

You'll notice that there is very little content for Google to associate with your site. Google doesn't see your pretty logo, images or gradients.

I would work on the content, structure and internal linkage of the site.

Hope that helps.
Michael

[rudeboy500]

Originally Posted by MichaelWall

As Brian pointed out, the home page has no content!

Go to Google, do a search for your site 'indived.com' then click on the cached button, then top right click on 'text version' and you'll see what Google sees.

You'll notice that there is very little content for Google to associate with your site. Google doesn't see your pretty logo, images or gradients.

I would work on the content, structure and internal linkage of the site.

Hope that helps.
Michael

Hi Brian thankyou for your advice .
I am going through all pages and still learning, I have been advised by you all my other colleagues on this wonderful forum. No luck as for getting top ranking still trying I know this is not the best website. I have always been taught that simplicity is the best way to tour round a website.
thanks
Rudeboy500

[Solicitors Mortgages]

Originally Posted by traxor

Make sure all of your code is XHTML Strict/Transitional, and it'll help you develop your own design methods and also help your site to be more SEO friendly. As previously said, the META tag thing is pretty much a myth, you need to use a combination of methods to improve your SEO.

Go to W3schools.com to make sure you're XHTML strict or transitional, and also combine it with CSS. Then use the W3 validators to make sure everything is valid.

The world is still waiting for proof that valid code makes the slightest bit of difference to SEO..anyone got some yet?

[MichaelWall]

Don't dismiss the meta description along with the meta keywords element. It's obviously important both for ctr's and rankings and can help with indented listings.

[Brian Turner]

Meta description is really for CTR, which may influence rankings (I certainly subscribe to that) - though meta data in itself hasn't appeared to be used by Google for ranking purposes that I've seen. Indented listings are formed when there's a rankable page related to the topic - something I actually use a lot for link building purposes, where trying to ensure an indented ranking to create greater visibility on the front page.

[MichaelWall]

Even though Google have said contrary http://googlewebmastercentral.blogsp...scription.html and it might be against common opinion, I believe the meta description can have some ranking effect.

I've been able to get indented listings just through having a relevant word or two in the meta description that relates to a linked page.

[Brian Turner]

Would be interesting to see what happens if you were to remove the meta keyword? I would have expected the indented listing to come up according to onpage and offpage linking criteria, rather than because of meta keyword use.