Title Tags

[Penaf]

Hello all ... I've searched for this but I wasn't able to find much in the 5/6 pages of posts I searched so sorry if this is a re-post.

When searching on Google I notice that I only have my index file appearing and all the others keep getting ommited! I know almost for sure that this is due to the title tag. In my site's 1st version i only had 1 title tag to all the pages, now I changed a bit and all of them are a little different, but all still very simmilar.

If you guys could give me any thoughts about this matter I would appreciate, and also, of course, any other good advice you might have for me! I'm always ready to learn and improve!

My site is at http://www.wise-designs.com

Thank you all in advance!

[CreditFN]

Hi,

After looking through your title tags, you should be careful about using the same words on various sections of the site in different order. The bots will most likely read your title code as spamming and not index you very accuratelly, or at all. As for your keyword statements they all seem to be very broad, are you achieving high rankings with them? If not, you may want to consider targeting more niche areas in your business.

[wrmineo]

Actually, when I look at your metas, I see a bunch of crap. I'm not trying to be mean, but think about what all the bot must crawl through before they get to the meat that they are truly looking for ... what do you need versus what can you rid?

Yes, your <title> seems off key; your <description> reads more like a keywords; and, your <keywords> are too general, unrealistic, lengthy and borderline spammy IMO.

When I chech Google, they have 110 pages indexed from your site; clicking on some of them are coming up 404 - that in itself is a big ZAP in Google indexing and ranking your site. If you continue to redesign, revamp and not keep a clean house, all of those 404/dead pages will be the death of your site. Consider putting an errordoc in place to redirect to a message about your redesign efforts and link to the (current) sitemap. htacess 301 redirects would be a good usage here too.

[Penaf]

Finnaly the kind of posts i was looking for! That's what i needed ... advices! Thanks!

@wrmineo: can you tell me what are the useless tags I have in the site. I know I also need to get better description and keywords tags, but I recognise I have there lots of crap!
About the 404 pages, that's cause the recent re-design I made. I was using some web template and decided to advance to a CSS tableless layout and many pages name were modified. I'll be working in the 404 errors and 301 redirects this afternoon

@CreditFn: No... no high rankings at all! Title and meta tags are an huge problem to me! I'm not sure what titles to give, what metas are useless and so on. Maybe my problem is to be aiming at too may different keywords... for now on I'll be focusing on "tutorials", "templates" and resources.

Any help on defining the best keyword tag?

Anyway... i'm really thankful for your posts, I was under the impression that people had developed some kind of alergy to my threads.

[Penaf]

Ok :) Took care of the 301 redirects! That was a great piece of advice! Thanks

But I forgot to ask another thing that is troubling me! I have a news script to display articles that makes the address of them like this

http://www.wise-designs.com/articles..._from=&ucat=2&

Does anyone think that a mod_rewrite would be good for SEO or shall I leave the addresses like that! Didn't yet see any of this pages indexed by Google!

[wrmineo]

IMO, you could lose all of these:

<meta name="Robots" content="index, follow" />
<meta name="Language" content="en" />
<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-us" />
<meta name="Abstract" content="Wise Designs Webmasters" />
<meta name="Copyright" content="2005 Wise-Designs Inc" />
<meta name="Author" content="Penaf" />
<meta name="Owner" content="Penaf" />
<meta name="Distribution" content="Global" />
<meta http-equiv="Revisit-After" content="15 days" />
<meta name="Rating" content="General" />
<meta name="Reply-to" content="penaf@yahoo.com" />
<meta name="Email" content="penaf@yahoo.com" />

This meta is duplicated:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />

Your <title> tag should be the first element under your <head>

For a comprehensive analysis of your site and how it stacks up against competing site and recommendations for improvement, take a look at ctabuk's thread over at Marketing Strategies. Also, you could gain more insights from the Websites Review Forum.

[Penaf]

Thanks for the tags advice, i'll be working on that for the next days!

I think deleting all those useless tags will be useful, making the filesize of pages drop, and sticking to important stuff only! But my most important work will be tweaking title, meta description and meta keyords tags.

About ctabuk's thread, it seems extremely useful and i already posted there asking for help. I'm hoping to get great directions from him as all other users that are posting there get!

Website review here?!? Don't think so! Did that a week ago... not a single reply! Community spirit! Not a problem tho, doesn't even makes me mad. There we can only see people asking for reviews without making a single one! I'm a regular custommer there, only to see what others do and provide some small advice! I understand this type of phennomena... Everyone asks, Noone gives! We can see it here and everywhere!

Cheers and thanks again

[wrmineo]

Originally Posted by Penaf

Thanks for the tags advice, i'll be working on that for the next days!

I think deleting all those useless tags will be useful, making the filesize of pages drop, and sticking to important stuff only! But my most important work will be tweaking title, meta description and meta keyords tags.

About ctabuk's thread, it seems extremely useful and i already posted there asking for help. I'm hoping to get great directions from him as all other users that are posting there get!

Website review here?!? Don't think so! Did that a week ago... not a single reply! Community spirit! Not a problem tho, doesn't even makes me mad. There we can only see people asking for reviews without making a single one! I'm a regular custommer there, only to see what others do and provide some small advice! I understand this type of phennomena... Everyone asks, Noone gives! We can see it here and everywhere!

Cheers and thanks again

First - you're welcome; I'm certainly happy to help where and when I can.

Second - yes, ctabuk has great advice, but he's been a bit swamped as of late as you can imagine, and are probably experiencing.

Finally, I won't pretend to be able to change your mind on the Review forum, nor will I attempt to defend it; that too was one of my disappointments when first joining this Spring. However, that doesn't mean you can't "bump" up your thread after a week if you have gotten a response - simply post a reply to your own thread and bump it back up. Of course, I'd understand if you merely took the advice/analysis ctabuk will be throwing your way and first go with it - it'll be of more use in the long run anyway. Also, after you've done your tweaks, if you've still gotten no replies to a review after a few weeks, resubmit it ... a few seconds of time to duplicate the effort may have a completely different set of eyes the second time around :)

Either way - Good Luck; let me know how it turns out - feel free to shoot me an email - it's in my profile and not blocked like some :)

[virtualtraveller]

By my experience, changing your H1 will not bring immediate results, no matter how many ibls you have.

This so-called 'sandbox' effect' doesn't only apply to a new site, but also new pages or pages that have a new title.

In short, google probably wont rank a page that is new to a 'key word' without first placing some sort of time filter on it. How long, depends on how competitive that keyword is.

[DMC_34]

Originally Posted by virtualtraveller

In short, google probably wont rank a page that is new to a 'key word' without first placing some sort of time filter on it. How long, depends on how competitive that keyword is.

The sandbox is applied only to the domain and not to pages. IMO, this factor is based mainly on age of domain.

My older site will rank just after indexing of any new page for any related keyword. A new site is completely different. No pages will rank for any competitive keyword.

I have an expired 2yr old domain, which have been parked for 3 months, ranking higher than my new site. New site has 5,000 more IBL's as well as content. Content on the parked domain has nothing to do with the keywords. Yet it ranks higher. Why? 2+ years of domain age.

DMC

[Penaf]

Well ... changing 150 pages Title tags and Meta tags revealed to be a time-taking task! But it's not going that bad! With the help of Axandra IBP 8.1 it's not that hard to do all that with it's analysis tools! (by the way... Search Engine submission with IBP is wonderful ... 5/6 clicks and... voilá... more than 200 submissions :) )

@wrmineo: you'd do me a great favor if you could check if I'm on the right track (Premium templates secion of my site is already meta-tag tweaked... I think!). I'm asking you cause you already prooved to be a great advisor :)

But if anyone would like to provide help also, be my guest!...
http://www.wise-designs.com/templates.htm

@DMC_34: yeah ... i hear also that the age of the domain counts a lot ... i'm losing on that point, but getting better every day :D

[moredial]

The first question you have to ask yourself is how functional your home page title is. How many people will do a search on 'WD Webmasters - Premium Website Templates'
And, more to the point, take your meta description - who will search on 'Welcome to the most complete template library! More than 8000 for you to chose'
Then, your first indexible text is in you H1 tag. Again, you have repeated a term which is unlikely to be very high in the list of most likely search terms.

Your next text, 'Our company offers its customers a great variety of products. Everything you need can be found in this site.' is completely lacking in any keywords.

All I can suggest is that you go back to the drawing board as regards evaluating your keywords and their position on the page. You show some good beginnings. Now you just need to add some value so that the search engines can know what the page is about.

[brian.mark]

I see you've got some good advice here already, but I thought I needed to chime in.

The keywords you stated before of "templates" and "tutorials" have got to change. Tutorials won't get you anywhere. What types of tutorials do you have? You need pages that are very specific to the type of tutorial you have. Are these building website tutorials or framing a house tutorials? I'd assume it's not framing a house, but just the keyword of "tutorials" doesn't tell me. Enunciate exactly what you've got and that'll help the engines know what they should make your pages show up for.

This is a page you should keep an eye on. The beginning of all of your titles listed is the same and rather useless. Best case, get rid of the site name in the title. Worst case (if you just can't bring yourself to do that), move it to the end. Those first characters are valuable space for SEO.

I also see several documents titled "Printer Friendly Version". I'm assuming that's some article you have on your site with a printer version. Since you probably have the same document in a non-printer friendly version as well, this would be duplicate content. Best idea is to use a robots noindex, follow meta tag on those pages to prevent them from creating duplicate content or use your robots.txt file to prohibit print.php from being accessed. Either way, you don't want those duplicates in the indexes.

I also see some documents indexed as wise-designs.com and others as www.wise-designs.com - this is also a source of duplicate content. Use a 301 redirect using mod_rewrite since you're on an Apache server on a *nix variation. Just make sure you get your rewritecondition correct so that you don't get an endless loop of redirects.

When you get done with your titles, there's always more to do. The metas (keywords and description) won't make huge differences in rankings, but killing some of those optional ones can certainly help in MSN and Yahoo at the moment, especially the revisit-after tag. I've seen more than a few sites have issues that are resolved after removing that tag.

Happy coding,

Brian.

[Terry Van Horne]

site:www.wise-designs.com - Google Search
shows you have 16 pages in the index. So you have some major indexing problems likely due to all the 404's which will stop the crawler dead and strand it if you do not have a custom 404 response. IMO, when you get the 404's fixed the spider should be able traverse down the link tree/nodes on the left and find all your content. SE's don't not index a page because they don't like the title. They will index it and
- put it in the supplemental index
-or it just doesn't place.

The same title won't stop indexing just how it's used after indexing.

[ericajoieake]

Originally Posted by Penaf

Hello all ... I've searched for this but I wasn't able to find much in the 5/6 pages of posts I searched so sorry if this is a re-post.

When searching on Google I notice that I only have my index file appearing and all the others keep getting ommited! I know almost for sure that this is due to the title tag. In my site's 1st version i only had 1 title tag to all the pages, now I changed a bit and all of them are a little different, but all still very simmilar.

If you guys could give me any thoughts about this matter I would appreciate, and also, of course, any other good advice you might have for me! I'm always ready to learn and improve!

My site is at Wise Designs: Art on Canvas & Art Prints for sale

Thank you all in advance!

Ok first you need to provide a keyword according to the niche of your site then you have to use a keyword suggestion tool, using this you would be able to identify which keyword have a lot of search per month and separate the keyword with high numbers of search and that will be your main keywords and that's what you need, after that you need to search for that in google if the result shows 10 million and up it means you have so much competitors for that title and you will having a hard time to get rank using that title so you will going to use a keywords having a less thatn in 10 million in results.