Steve - nice website.

Your problems with MSN and others are simply a part of infancy; if your site is new, getting there will take a bit of growning up. IBLs from other sites act as a nice growth hormone though so it's not impossible to speed up the process. Your listing at Heres1 should help as MSN hammers this site with its bots many times a day.

However, you could also be be getting some hinderance from the flash and java. Search engines are getting better at crawling pages with flash, but they've not yet perfected it except maybe Google.

You have LOTS of content on this page. It all seems relevant, but could also be reducing your content relevancy % to your keywords. I recently took one of my home pages down by 40% on the content and it's now in the top ten at Google for a very competitive keyword phrase - something to consider maybe. Doing a smaller snippets and then linking over to your relevant secondary pages may serve you well in the long run - it could also help you diversify your keyword market reach.

Your page has a link in the footer about XHMTL validation. One point - make sure your pages is valid. Three simple errors, but I can only advise on one - line six "&" should be "&". The script errors on lines 166/7 will need Brian, Speed, Adam or someone much better than I for a quick fix - but they can do it - they've done it for me (oh, was that a challenge) :)

CTABUK can provide you with an infinite wealth of information about your site as he's already offered. Here's another challenge - take him up on it or get yourself a big idiot placard to wear. I'm not trying to be abrasive - the info is that good and someone would have to be stupid not to take the FREE offer of his advice. He consulted with me about etowninfo.com recently - do a search in Google for "Elizabethtown Information" and you'll see HIS advice at work on my crappy site!

Good Luck and Happy Ranking!
w®m

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