really struggling...

[bart0r]

Ive spent a few weeks trying to get anywhere on to google, but not having much luck.

my website is Emerald Systems - Multismart Pump Control & Process Instrumentation The main search terms we want are 'pump control' 'pump controller' and 'pumping station'

I believe the website is of good, relevant content, and neatly designed. Another website ive recently designed is doing superb (12 months ago), and is number 1-3 with various search terms, but im really struggling with this one.

Ive just setup Adwords for the new site too.

Ive not yet approached relevant websites for backlinks, but ive not done this for my other site either.
I have however registered on a few pages such as squidoo and a couple of PR sites to announce the launch of our uk exclusive product.

Can anyone hand out some specific pointers?

[wige]

I think one of the main things is to get links. Google doesn't see any links, and Yahoo only sees 7 or 8. Google won't crawl the pages seriously unless it picks up several relevant links going to the domain.

[mjtaylor]

Originally Posted by wige

I think one of the main things is to get links. Google doesn't see any links, and Yahoo only sees 7 or 8. Google won't crawl the pages seriously unless it picks up several relevant links going to the domain.

Wige is right ... you need links ... *and* your page is not optimized for your search terms ... they are not in h1 or h2 tags ... not bold, not first in your title ... and so on ... you might want to read the recent thread: SEO: Where do I Begin?

Cheers, MJ

[crankydave]

One other side note...

What appears to be your developement pages... /designs/site#/

Are getting indexed. Consider putting disallows in your robots.txt in order to prevent this in the future. They're returning 404's right now but it's still a good idea not to let them get indexed IMO.

As wige and MJ point out, get links using the phrases you wish to rank on as the anchors, directory submissions are a good way to start, and work on your onpage optimization.

Dave

[bart0r]

thanks for the help guys. Ive printed alot of the info out on the pages posted above and hopefully apply these changes over the next few days (certainly to the index anyway).

I have one last question, If you look at the instrumentation page Emerald Systems - Instrumentation you can see the vast amount of instrumentation ive listed, but because its part of JS google wont index it. Is there an easy way to get this included in the sitemap? Every sitemap program ive used just cant/wont index it.

Thanks again for the help, Adam

[wige]

Put simply, no. Search engines are not going to look at anything that can only be accessed by a form, and if the only way to get to a page is through a sitemap file, the search engines are unlikely to rank the pages. Sitemap programs, likewise, can't find links that are in javascript. There are a few sitemap programs that will crawl your server file system and which should be able to find the pages and put them in the sitemap that way, but you won't get much benefit. The pages will be indexed, but won't do well in search. I would suggest creating an HTML sitemap page that links to all of these pages so the search engines have something that they can see that users might be able to access linking to these deeper pages.

[incrediblehelp]

Originally Posted by bart0r

Ive not yet approached relevant websites for backlinks, but ive not done this for my other site either.

Some more link building help.