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SEO Problems and Crawler Indexing Issues?
Hello after being away from here for a while I came back because I am having a possibly major issue with my website and search engine traffic. It seems bots and crawlers are having issues with crawling my website. I have summed up most of it in the quote below.
I apologize for the links as this quote is just a direct copy/paste off of my forum.. I just recently purchased an IPB license a little over a month ago and finally made the move to IPB, but this issue seems to have been going on longer than that.
Quote:
I think something is wrong somewhere or broken that is keeping search engines from being able to properly index the website. We technically should at least be seeing a fair bit more guests on at once even if they don’t register given the age of the site now.
As most we get between 10 – 30 guests on at once, sometimes less, half the time it’s the result of a crawler, crawling the pages..
I posted this poll to see how many found the site via a search engine, and only one person/member found the site via a search engine…
http://www.xtemu.com/forum/?showtopic=763
I would appreciate if someone familiar with SEO can help check if something is wrong somewhere, check meta keywords and descriptions and other general SEO stuff to help me optimize results more efficiently.
Also the web archive wayback machine should typically be showing more archived pages/cached versions of the forum than it currently is. This has led me to believe that something somewhere is breaking search engine crawlers from the ability to properly or efficiently index the pages.
http://web.archive.org/web/*/xtemu.com
http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.xtemu.com/forum
The wiki brings up no matches on the wayback machine..
Something is wrong somewhere and given the date of the last cached pages on the wayback machine, might give an idea what could of happened or went wrong.
As you can see one member total came from a search engine on the poll, barely any content for my website is being archived in the web archive wayback machine with five pages total that have been archived. Barely any guests on the site at all, at most we get between 10 and 100 guests, but half or more of guests are made up of crawlers, unknown crawlers so relatively few guests on at a time.
Also whenever a crawler is on the site, it usually sits on the board index not crawling any of the pages or content at all. Also my sitemap generator script is having trouble crawling the site, the end result of a sitemap is unusually small like only a couple hundred kilobytes which is quite small given the amount of content, topics and posts we have.
The pages themselves total about 7MB. So I have came to a conclusion that something is wrong or broken somewhere that is making it difficult or nearly impossible for search engines to properly index the site/forum, which also hurts search engine results for my site. As to what it is that is causing this problem baffles me and I am unable to fix it myself without an idea on what it could be.
Thanks if anyone can help me.
Well, if you type
site:www.xtemu.com
into google, it shows 3,570 results, so it seems everything is ok. I wouldn´t worry about the wayback machine, they generally do not cache everypage on the site and is not used as a benchmark for indexing content.
However, you have no meta descriptions. This is the snippet of text that google shows in its results page. This could be affecting click-through rate, as in the absense of a meta description, google will show a snippet it thinks would be good, which more often than not is not very good. Think of your meta description as an advert for a particular page on your site, it should give the searcher an overview of what the page is about.
Also, your meta page titles are bad, perhaps you should add some keywords to do with your community into the metatitle, and this will get you showing up better in searches for these keywords.
That´s just my opinion after a quick 2 minute look, however I would recommend hiring a specialist if your are very worried.
SEO Advice for On-Site and Off-Site Website Optimization
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SEO for Dummies
SEO is the art of making websites search engine friendly, which eventually helps websites to rank higher for certain keywords.
This is no rocket science, but it can be very complexed, given the fact that it is believed that there are numerous factors or paramters set by Search Engines within their Algorithm, that decides which websites are most relevant to keywords being searched on their search engines.
However, there are some very basic and do it yourself SEO techniques that one can apply to achieve a better ranking if not to the top. SEO for dummies is quite achievable by doing getting the basics right of your website design, preparing your site for SEO, and then further maintaining it.
Mentioned below are a few effective techniques of SEO which are simple, understandable and effective.
To keep your site ranking high for certain keywords, you have to convince search engines that your site is most relevant to that keyword being searched. Always remember, Contents on your site play a major role in keyword ranking, which is one of the most important parameter of SEO and thats why search engines will give your site importance. t’s not all about linking, or buying lots of inbound links. It’s more about having relevant & keyword rich contents on your site.
While writing good quality contents for your website, you need to keep a focus around the keywords you wish to optimise for search engines (for SEO). You should stay away from using words that may be similar to what you do, but are not going to be searchable. Example would be, rather than using words like ‘Flowers’ in your website if you’re a Florist you should add words like ‘Florist’ which is a keyword most likely to be searched if someone is looking for a Florist.
Do specify geographical areas that you’re targeting. So if you’re a Magician in Sydney, then focus your keywords around these words.
Make clear to search engines what you do, about your business, products & services. Don’t forget to add meta tags (this may not influence search engine ranking considerably). Make sure your page is well structured, focus around the products or services you offer. Avoid dynamic urls and focus on static urls.
Stay away from linking to bad neighbourhood (websites) and stay with the good ones. Linking to good quality websites will eventually give your website a boost to some extent.
Design websites that are legible to search engines, or where search engine spiders can read through your contents. In the recent past, contents like Flash based websites or images could not be legible by search engine spiders. If for some reason you have to use a Flash site for a presentation, that’s ok, as long as you also have a parallel text-based web pages on similar contents for spiders to read and understand what your products or services are about. Having said that, it is believed that Google has made inroads in indexing dynamic contents like PDF (portable document format) and Flash files. Adobe has been working along with search engines to make its Flash file format searchable.
Keep Blogging, as Blogs are yet another way to give search engines more information and your visitors can communicate with you through blogs, or it keeps visitors updated. This eventually gives boost to your website
Focus on humans reading your website, and not only search engine optimisation (SEO), as you may forget that the website is mainly designed for humans and not only for search engines. Nonetheless, keep a balance to please both, humans & search engines. In essence, if you’re aware of how to design your website for search engines, then the users will get a be able to find it. Your focus on writing the contents and maintaining the information flow on the site should be planned efficiently for humans, which will also give search engines a good understanding about your site.
A big No No. Do not stuff your site with too many or unneccsary Keywords, as this can be detrimental to your site being banned by search engines. Even adding too many internal links with certain keywords may be unethical & alarming to search engines. Search Engines are smart enough in picking up repetitive keywords or unnecessary internal linking.
Buying inbound links may work for some sites, but not recommended, unless if you’re exchanging links from quality or content-related websites.
Tomas
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SEO services- Onsite and off site
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Introduction to SEO – The 2 Most Important Components of High Search Engine Rankings
http://wwwm.com.au While many website owners will have heard of SEO (or search engine optimisation), many don’t fully understand what it’s all about and how it works.
This short video is an Introduction to the 2 key components or elements of SEO – the onsite & offsite factors. Eran Malloch from World Wide Web Marketing explains the basics in non-technical terms to bring you up to speed on these vital parts of the SEO puzzle.
Enjoy
Duration : 0:5:44
How Can Selecting an SEO Partner?
Every company offering SEO related services promises results but few deliver on that promise. To be the exception when it comes to delivering on that promise a SEO partner must take an approach that ensures quality results that meet YOUR business objectives.
Here’s what to look for:
First, they should demonstrate that they understand your business need.
Just giving you a questionnaire is not enough. At the beginning of any engagement, they should take the time to understand your business objectives. Your business is unique and a ‘one-size-fits-all’ approach rarely actually fits every business. By taking the time to understand your business they should be able to tailor their services to best meet your business objectives as well as your budget.
Second, they should use a proven model of optimization that offers ‘realistic’ expectations.
Ignore marketing hype like “Rank #1 in Google in 24 hours” Search engines do not make public the process or rules they use to crawl, rank pages or index website pages. Further the processes and rules change often as the search engines attempt to increase the value of search results. Of course if your keyword phrase is “one of a kind white unicorns hand made by a grandmother in Peoria” then you actually have a good shot of # 1 ranking if anyone actually ever searched for that. Otherwise, it takes time and lots of work to get high rankings.
To compensate for this lack of public information, an SEO partner should rely on a proven model to ‘uncover’ the rules.
1. Analyze – Determine where your pages rank today. From this you can learn what may be ‘right’ about these higher ranking that can be applied to other pages.
2. Target – Every web site is unique. Rather than a set of ‘canned’ optimization recommendations they should determine the right optimization options for your website. To accomplish this they should use a range of methods:
• Expert Review. While many SEO partners have great in-house experience they should also turn to other experts who study search engines to determine the most likely ‘rules’ used to determine how pages are indexed and ranked.
• Best Practices. They should look at the top ranking competitors in your space to determine how they optimized their pages, for more details visit to www.the20seotools.com particularly those aspects that could influence page rankings.
• Learn as they Optimize. They should consider implementing changes to larger sites in stages. Start by optimizing your highest value pages first, then, based on the results modify the optimization approach if needed before continuing.
• It’s More than Google. While organic search results are a key portion of any optimization effort, they should know that it takes much more to get quality traffic to your website. They should be able to help you go beyond the search engines to find your new traffic.
3. Optimize – They should be able to provide the detailed information you need to understand what needs to be done to your website. They should also be willing to let you make the changes rather than forcing you to allow them to make the changes at substantial per hour fees.
4. Analyze – SEO is not a one-time effort. Your business changes, your competitors change, your prospects and customers change and the search engines refine rules. This means you will need to periodically review your ranking and re-optimize your site. You should expect your SEO partner to provide ‘follow-ups’ to ensure that you got results.
Third, their approach should be comprehensive and include all the aspects that bring traffic to your website, not just search engines. Make sure they will provide
• Detailed Site Analysis – You need to understand from where your site is starting.
• Keyword Analysis – All keywords are not created equal. They should help you understand which ones to use, and as importantly, which ones not to use.
• Page Structure Recommendations – Content, headers, keyword placement, it all matters.
• Engine Submissions – Each engine is unique. ‘Submit a link’ programs are not effective.
• Paid Search – The internet is like any business, for more details visit to www.sitemap-makers.com sometimes ‘free’ isn’t worth even that.
• Reciprocal Links – As with keywords, all links are not created equally.
Selecting a SEO partner can be intimidating. With all the marketing hype, it is easy to get fooled. In the end SEO is like any other business service you use. You should be able to understand the benefits, and limitations, it offers and make an informed decision about how to invest your money.
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Any great freelance SEO specialists out there?
I have an e-commerce site which has flopped like a dead goldfish. It has great products, a great look, the organization of the items I’m selling could use work, but I really feel that there just isn’t enough traffic coming its way. The company that runs the site sucks as far as promotion (found that out the hard way…whole other story…) Anyway, I met a person on here that was a freelancer who used to work for a SEO company but I lost his email addy. (DOH!)
I think everyone who enlists services of any kind want the best bang for the buck. I only have a small budget I just would like to have tons of targeted Traffic to my site. Don’t need to be number one on Google if there are other ways to get traffic. Anyway I think I got my ideas lined out. Sorry for such a long post but I really want my site to take off. (Here is the url in case you wanna look http://nathensdobashop.com )
the best way for SEo is to employ a freelancer via sites like: getacoder, getafreelancer…. (try google search for "freelance sites") you’ll find good freelancers there with user feedback.
How To Create A Dealership Profile on CarDealerWiki.org
This is a complete video tutorial on how to create a car dealership profile on http://CarDealerWiki.org. This is a great way to create off-site SEO content for your dealership as well as links to your dealership website.
Accounts for this site must originate from a car dealership email address or a company in the automotive industry. Gmail, Yahoo, Hotmail, etc. email addresses will not be approved.
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Atlanta SEO Consulting.com Easy Daily Lesson
Atlanta SEO Consulting has A Different Approach to Search Engine Optimization. Together we will Get You Ranked #1 On The Search Engines! We have changed the RULES and created a Simple and Easy program that will create outstanding results. No other SEO Company can produce these kinds of results!
The first step in achieving good rankings is to align your website (on-Page optimization). Your keywords should get good traffic and have great commercial intent. Atlanta SEO Consulting can help you choose the correct keywords and help you align your website to those keywords and keyword phrases. If you do the research you will get ranked higher and faster. This means more traffic and more SALES! The reason your site and most sites rank so poorly is off-page optimization. Off-page makes up for 90% of what search engines use to determine your placement. The tough part about off-page is that it cannot be done all at once. It is a step-by-step process that must be done each day. There are several things you should be doing everyday that will rocket you to the top and leave your competition in the dust. The first thing is linking to other sites. Every time you link to another site your site can double in size. Sites that are linked to other important sites always get higher rankings. We show you how to get the High PR Links. http://www.atlantaseoconsulting.com
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SEO Experts and SEO Consultants, How They Help Your Business Succeed Online
You have set up your business website and then sat back to watch as customers come knocking on your door, but unfortunately not much has happened. When you try to use keywords that you think you deserve you are still finding the other guys website popping up in those top 3 spots. This is an unfortunately situation that is constantly happening for millions of web site owners. What is happening you may ask yourself. It may be difficult for you to understand now because you are not involved in the field of search engine optimization. However talented SEO experts and SEO consultants out there have a solid understanding of what is happening, and it is pretty simply to the experts. They seem to have a way with websites!
SEO consultants carry out a number of activities to ensure that your site is ranked highly by the search engines. These SEO experts work on a wide range of sites from static sites to dynamic ecommerce sites, lead generation websites and other online portals that are driven by database. They will charge you a fee for their services, either to perform the work of getting you to the top or else for the advice to get you to the top. Often times paying SEO consultants for their services is one of the best investment’s a small business can make that will actually help you reap healthy rewards. However, don’t be carried away by SEO experts who promise you everything and a sack of gold with your site. It is not automatic that you will receive the top ranking once they optimize your site. There are millions of web site owners out there trying to get their website to the top as well. Doing almost the same thing as you and competing for the same top ranking. But this should not dampen your spirit because there are people out there that understand the secrets to success.
I advise that you shop around for the best company or person and have them optimize your site and create a link building campaign to fit your needs. The reason you need links to your web site is simple, you need to confirm to the search engines that you are a relevant source of information for your web sites topic. You may not jump immediately in the search engine rankings, but with time your rankings should improve as the SEO consultants perform the work to get your website to the top. They will often times continue adjusting your webs site to fit the changing standards of the various search engines. Patience is definitely a virtue in working in this area.
You can also register for some training to learn more about search engine optimization. This will enable you to work on your site personally to improve your search rankings. As mentioned before the standards keep on changing, therefore you must keep on investing time or else you need to hire a company that stays up to date on the latest changes. To cut down the long term costs associated with this service, it is important to make that one time investment and get the training or purchase the services. Being trained in this field isn’t always the best option for everybody. Business men and entrepreneurs may not have the time to optimize their sites on their own. The option here is to hire the services of talented SEO consultants to work on their sites.
This will ensure that your able to obtain the traffic that is needed to sustain growth and obtain customers. Most customers interested in SEO Services are businesses and retail stores that want to expand their place of sale.
Hiring the services of SEO consultants is a cost that has to be part of the daily running of your business. Just like paying your bills, hiring the services of SEO experts is an operating cost for any business that offers its services or products online. The fees you pay depends on the SEO expert services you are using as well as what the expert believes they are worth. I recommend price is considered, but you must also determine who can actually prove that they will be able to provide the results you are looking for. The greater the reputation of a SEO provider, often times the higher the fees. However there are still talented firms that are affordable and ready to help.
Joel Mclaughlin
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