Please check my website

yanavp · #1 (**permalink**) 07-01-2005, 06:12 PM

Hello everyone,
I am finally putting my head above the water, working day and night, webiste is on now!
Please check it out, need traffic! Any advise?

http://www.ManeTane.com

ADAM Web Design · #2 (**permalink**) 07-01-2005, 06:49 PM

Your site coding could be slightly better (remove the blank lines and put JScripts in their own JS files) but overall, it's not too, too bad.

The biggest thing you need to do if you want traffic to your site is to get as many inbound links of as high a quality as possible. Once you do that, measure both the quantity and quality (orders) of your traffic. When you have enough data to measure the success of your site, make adjustments to your code, product lines, etc.

Lather, rinse, repeat over and over again. This is an ongoing process.

yanavp · #3 (**permalink**) 07-05-2005, 11:40 AM

Thank you!

mhbrands · #4 (**permalink**) 07-05-2005, 03:59 PM

Your Computer site link (the second one) diverts to an apartment or perhaps condo site written in French.

yanavp · #5 (**permalink**) 07-05-2005, 04:22 PM

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Originally Posted by mhbrands

Your Computer site link (the second one) diverts to an apartment or perhaps condo site written in French.

ManeTane.com?
Didn't get it....

marketershandbook.com · #6 (**permalink**) 07-05-2005, 05:46 PM

Hi,
very nice looking website.

To get more traffic and perhaps become more of an authority in your industry, you could write articles.

It looks like you intend to do this (Based on the "Information and Tips" heading), so good for you. Once you have written a few articles you can submit them to article directories to recieve some traffic, but also a boost in page rank and the number of inbound links.

Perhaps submit your articles to related, but not directly competing newsletters.

And of course the 2 major ones, PPC and SEO.

yanavp · #7 (**permalink**) 07-05-2005, 06:29 PM

[quote="marketershandbook.com"]Hi,
very nice looking website.

Thank you very much for all your help and advice.
I am working on the rep link right now...the problem is that the higher ranking sites wouldn't add my site, and lower ones wouldn't do any good for me...
Would you please recommend any article submission services that we would be able to use for articles we write?

marketershandbook.com · #8 (**permalink**) 07-06-2005, 02:37 PM

When you say higher ranked, do you mean for the same keyword that you are targetting?

If that is what you mean, then that should start alarm bells ringing. They are your direct competitors.

Look for websites that compliment yours, not ones that are direct competitors.

Sorry if I misunderstood what you said.

There are MANY health related article submission services. Your best bet is to go to google (Or your fav search engine) and type in "article submission" or something similar.

You will probably end up with search results in the millions :)

Hope that helps.

xitxdotcom · #9 (**permalink**) 07-06-2005, 02:54 PM

Your site look great, very human eye appealing.

I just checked out some links and noticed that your URLs have a lot of URL parameters. You might want to try and cut down on that and instead of every page going to index.asp?someparam=someval?ID=843878 you should have the page names and links relevant to the content.

For instance, your Return policy page is index.asp?PageAction=Custom&ID=11, you should just change this to something like return-policy.asp.

Spider's will have a much easier time following your links if your site does not appear so dynamic.

RARELY have I ever seen a site in Google with 3 or more URL parameters.

Izzmo · #10 (**permalink**) 07-06-2005, 03:05 PM

I agree with xitxdotcom, very nice and appealing to the eye.

Just make sure you content, content, and more content. That's what Google feeds on.

I would also recommend putting seperate meta-tags and good keyword-rich descriptions on all of your products. That will get Google spidering it more often, after all, I do work for a E-Commerce Shopping cart company.

Just One question- Why didn't you go with our shopping cart? http://www.StoreFront.net Give it a look. Which one are currently using?

Thanks, and great website.

xitxdotcom · #11 (**permalink**) 07-06-2005, 03:19 PM

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Just One question- Why didn't you go with our shopping cart? http://www.StoreFront.net Give it a look. Which one are currently using?

I used StoreFront a couple years ago when it was a add-on for Dreamweaver. I didn't like it. It was difficult to implement and then customize. I found I had to do a lot of coding to get the site to look like I wanted and by that time I could have written the code myself.

I got a refund for it pronto, so the customer service was great. Like I said it was a couple years ago so I am sure you all improved it.

Izzmo · #12 (**permalink**) 07-06-2005, 03:49 PM

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Originally Posted by xitxdotcom

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Just One question- Why didn't you go with our shopping cart? http://www.StoreFront.net Give it a look. Which one are currently using?

I used StoreFront a couple years ago when it was a add-on for Dreamweaver. I didn't like it. It was difficult to implement and then customize. I found I had to do a lot of coding to get the site to look like I wanted and by that time I could have written the code myself.

I got a refund for it pronto, so the customer service was great. Like I said it was a couple years ago so I am sure you all improved it.

Well, we've came out with 4 more versions lol :) We also got implementations for FrontPage and Dreamweaver both now. So, it's nice.

You should try out our Demo, it's free so you can see all the updates we've made.

yanavp · #13 (**permalink**) 07-06-2005, 03:55 PM

Hi xitxdotcom

Thanks for the feedback. We started the design with 'eye appeal' in mind first, seo second. Not sure if this was the right thing to pay attention to or not. Your suggestion on the url titles is great (though a little over my head) and I will definitely try to tweak them to be more spider friendly. Do you think that the way they are now will keep them from being properly spidered?

Thanks again!

yanavp · #14 (**permalink**) 07-06-2005, 03:56 PM

Thanks Izzmo

I appreciate the feedback. definitely a lot of work ahead for me. Just happy to get pointed in the right direction! I looked at your cart and it looks nice. Maybe we can use it for our next site :)

Thanks again.

Izzmo · #15 (**permalink**) 07-06-2005, 04:02 PM

Your welcome.

You should, it's nice. Take a look at the demo on our site, http://www.storefront.net. If you don't like it we always have our Money-Back Gurantee!

xitxdotcom · #16 (**permalink**) 07-07-2005, 07:04 PM

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Originally Posted by yanavp

Hi xitxdotcom
Do you think that the way they are now will keep them from being properly spidered?

I always play by these rules:
1 URL parameter and you are OK
2 is iffy...
3, your in trouble.

But my point was really aimed at the pages that don't need to appear like they are dynamically generated. Products and things like that will always have at least 1 URL parameter because you a pulling them from a database. Simple informational pages shouldn't required a URL paramter.