search engine confused

paullas · 07-08-05

Hi all.

Ok i have been developing http://www.birthday.co.uk

It is doing well in msn but google not a text in site ? can anyone shed a light on why. I have been told it is because i am using datafeeds from buyagift and also using affiliates??? if this is the case how can i fix this to make the site atleast google friendly

thanks

laskos

Aquanuke · 07-08-05

Not sure what you mean, but you have 3,390 pages indexed which is quite reasonable.

http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en...y.co.uk+&meta=

paullas · 07-08-05

i mean i just can not got in the top 2 pages of google which i find confusing. Is there any se gurus that i can hire to look at my site and optimize it for google and other top se's

Aquanuke · 07-08-05

If you mean for the term "birthday" then the most obvious thing is your PR. All the sites on the first 2 pages have higher PR then you, another factor maybe the age of your site.

You might find it easy to get indexed on Dmoz with your domain, have you tried?

paullas · 07-08-05

yes i have applied for dmoz a week ago, also my site has pr4, but a few guys tell me google PR means nothing now. i would just like some pointers where i am going wrong and what can i do to fix this.

thanks for replies mate.

Aquanuke · 07-08-05

PR is not what is was. But sites with a higher PR do and will appear higher in the index. Theres lots of Myths about PR, affiliate links and using datafeeds. Regardless of all that you just need more backlinks and your site to have been around for a while.

paullas · 07-08-05

cheers aqua

all i need now then is find good sites and link back ( easier said then done hahah ) but thank you for taging your time replying.

anyone else have any views

Brendon · 08-08-05

1) Review your code. You have unmercifully screwed up the PHP include, you've got 2 <HTML> elements, and the home page trails off with </script>. Major f*ckup. Fix it
2) Get a URL rewrite module. I'm sure PHP has a few free URL rewrite mods out there. Get rid of the page.php?parameter=value type links, rewrite them as ...co.uk/parameter/value, or something. Even G doesn't *like* dynamic pages, and right now you are offering them very little incentive to bother trying. A lot of your pages are listed using the
http://www.birthday.co.uk/shopping/f...kids_uk.php?ca...
Similar pages

... format, which indicates that G hasn't bothered to crawl a load of your pages, although it has seen the links.
3) Get some links from outside your spammy link farm. Forum sig links from Acorn Domains and domain holding page links from your domain portfolio does NOT count as a link building campaign

paullas · 08-08-05

thanks for them pointers. it appears the ecard script links pages together to form an index page. i am going to email the programmers over this as you are right, major ****up

what do you mean spammy link farm ?? ive added links on site pages i have as was told this is acceptable ? and also forum signatures was good..maybe i was told wrong

thanks for pointers though

laskos

Brendon · 08-08-05

>. what do you mean spammy link farm ??

Based on the results of a link: search on Yahoo, th eliste ddomain only has links from domains you own (the SEs can see this info, and work out for themselves how valuable those links are : virtually nil), and forum sigs, another classic "spam link" flag.

>> maybe i was told wrong

I'm sorry to say, it sounds like it. You need to learn to think like a search engineer : if you saw a site that only had links from other sites that were owned by the same person, and from forum sigs (a known, easily detectable spam technique), how highly would you rate the domain? It's content is immaterial in this case; if it links like spam....

I'd suggest getting the code fixes in place, beginning a gradual link-building campaign, and considering acquiring / creating some more unique content. Search engines love it

paullas · 08-08-05

cheers brendon, will work on the above asap. serves me right

thanks

laskos