Hi Susan
I had a look at your meta tags and there are one or two bits and pieces I would omit and some I would add.
It is my understandeing that DC tags are mainly used for educational institution sites that are out there and don't necessarily enhance your chances of getting up the rankings. I never use them personally because the sites I build and market are not educational.
I used to offer
SEO services some time ago until the whole thing got out of control and I would suggest trying this.
<title>Candy bouquets, gift baskets, chocolate gifts, candy baskets, corporate gift baskets</title>
<META NAME="MSSmartTagsPreventParsing"content="TRUE">
<META NAME="keywords" CONTENT="candy bouquets, gift baskets, chocolate gifts, candy baskets, corporate gift baskets, gourmet gifts, candy gifts, baby gift baskets, edible gifts, custom gift baskets, office gifts, christmas gifts, chocolate bouquet, sugar free chocolate, gifts">
<META NAME="description" CONTENT="candy bouquets, gift baskets, chocolate gifts, candy baskets, corporate gift baskets, gourmet gifts, candy gifts, baby gift baskets, edible gifts, custom gift baskets, office gifts, christmas gifts">
<META NAME="rating" CONTENT="General">
<META NAME="robots" content="All">
<META NAME="URL" "http://www.acbouquet.com">
<META NAME="revisit-after" CONTENT="30 days">
<META NAME="distribution" CONTENT="Global">
<META HTTP-EQUIV="window-target" CONTENT="_top">
Now I am not saying that you will get instant results, nor am I professing to know what is happening in the
SEO world these days but I suspect at the moment you will wait anything up to 8 weeks or more to see reasonable results. Most Search engines will not guarantee a top position and with the major changes in the way sites are spidered it has become increasingly harder to secure and maintain top slots.
I have a number of UK shopping sites that are in various stages of incubation through the search engines.
http://www.primal-media.com has been around for at least 3 years now and enjoyed good traffic (50,000 hits) until recently but like your site has slumped considerably.
http://www.harnhmshopping.co.uk is new and is a struggle to find the right keywords to get a fair airing of the site. You may want to consider using some of the tools on
SEO, there is a link to them on the primal site. Most of the tools are free to use and I find them useful for checking link popularity, link check site wide and submitting to the lesser known search engines as well as the more popular.
If you submit your site too often you could have been blocked for spamming the engines. I have robots spider my sites every 7 days because the content changes frequently. If you content is static and does not change that often then it is worth keeping the robot visits at 30 day intervals.
I hope this of some use to you and good luck.
Rob Brideson
rob.brideson@primal-media.com
http://www.primal-media.co.uk