Jay Drake wrote:

When I peeked at the source, however, I was horrified. It was quickly apparent that the web editor you use creates an awful lot of mess in your code that I recommend getting rid of or at least trimming down. Google's spider may not even see any of your content because of all the code it has to sift through to find it.
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You clearly have more experience than I have. I would gladly accept any and all the advice you are willing to give me.

Even accepting what you have to say still doesn’t exclude the possibility for my site being manipulated.

Googlebot has indexed my site over 10 times in the last month. They clearly know I’m there, they just don’t allow my site to be pulled up.

Yahoo and MSN have had no problem “seeing my site”. I have ranked in the top 5 of every one of my search terms since I started my website.

Google begins their explanation about how to rank by first emphasizing the word [b]“relevance”[/b] as to ranking. What is more relevant to a searcher? Links, backlinks, and more and more links, maybe some bells and whistles, or simply being able to locate golf courses in tyler or east texas by entering keyword phrases related to finding golf course in east texas?

A million links to and from my site doesn’t make me any more or less relevant to being a golf course in the tyler east texas area. However, you get 90% of irrelavent searches. But you always show up if you are a sponsered ad.

Also, google is the only search engine that produce the results I have documented with single and multiple results.

You picked “tyler texas golf course” as listing a directory that has me included. That is a directory, not my site. I am not listed under any of my search terms. The overwhelming presence of directories are using bait and switch techniques to lure you to their site only to find out their true goal is to sell vacation packages, from Las Vegas to Florida to around the world. How are they relevant to local search terms for area golf courses?

If a searcher enters “tyler texas golf course, east texas golf course, golf course in east texas, golf course in tyler texas, etc., I believe they are attempting to locate a golf course in tyler texas or east texas.

With all due respect, I think you are viewing my post through “google eyes”, as you so strongly did with Andilinks on her findings.

About conspiracies: Is it just a coincidence that my post is slipping down the page and older post are moving up, or is that just the way this forum works? I really don’t know, just curious.

By the way, I read dozens and dozens of post that claim they have the links and backlinks, all the bells and whistles, and still can't show up or are losing their ranking.

I can't stress enough that relevency should be king!!

Ok Jay, I've given you alot of questions. Can you respond to my post and issues without making the behind the door technical issues that Goolgle wants us to believe?

Again, googlebot has no problem "seeing my site". The dude comes by alot. I viewed their cache on my site and they had all pages cached.

Michael