www.carslots.com - Automotive Site

fxci · #1 (**permalink**) 06-17-2004, 06:16 PM

Can you guys look at my site and let me know what I should do to make it more search engine friendly...

http://www.carslots.com

I have done all mod rewrites on almost all the dynamic pages and attempted to do keywords...

I still have a PR of 0 and have no idea why.

Thanks
Mike

jestep · #2 (**permalink**) 06-17-2004, 06:21 PM

Page Rank is based only on incomming links to your site. The pages are fine as far as the code goes, you just need to get more links into the site.

fxci · #3 (**permalink**) 06-17-2004, 06:23 PM

Thanks, i'm glad i'm not going crazy... I have been working hard trying to get linkbacks... so far no luck... :(

Everyone that's linking to me it's like google just goes past them...

jestep · #4 (**permalink**) 06-17-2004, 06:28 PM

Google only updated its PR results about every 4 - 6 weeks, and may take 1 - 2 updates to list every one, but that doesn't mean that they haven't found them.

So far Im finding links from:
www.autodiscover.com
www.nexstardesigns.com
and about 900 from your own site.

Use the @www.yoursite.com to see all of the sites that have a link to your site.

fxci · #5 (**permalink**) 06-17-2004, 06:38 PM

Does the links from my own site help my PR or are they just nullified?

Jimmy418 · #6 (**permalink**) 06-17-2004, 11:22 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by jestep

Page Rank is based only on incomming links to your site. The pages are fine as far as the code goes, you just need to get more links into the site.

Actually this is not true! At least not entirely.

Here is what I would suggest (I have several sites that rank well and have done so in as little as 6 weeks).

First rearrange your meta tags on all pages. You want you 'title' tag to be first followed by your keywords and then the description.

Second, reduce the number of keywords you are using to a max of about 80 keywords/phrases. Some engines won't index past the first 100 words on a page, others may consider lots of keywords to be 'spam'.

Third, use your keywords in image 'alt' properties.

4. Add some header tags (<h1>...) and put keywords in them. Also add some links with more keywords in them.

Lastly...Focus your keywords to the site and its content. This is perhaps the second most important thing you can do.

Don't bother submitting to lots of engines, instead focus on Google, Yahoo, and MSN. Many of the top search engines get their results from Yahoo anyway, so don't worry too much about them. And, virtually no one uses anything else. (Google is currently #1, Yahoo #2, MSN #3).

Good luck,
Jimmy

jestep · #7 (**permalink**) 06-17-2004, 11:39 PM

Quote:

Actually this is not true! At least not entirely.

I was not referring to site ranking, in which I agree that page rank is not a major factor, I was refering to google PageRank, which is based on incomming links.

Otherwise I do agree with the on page optimization. Title, meta description, and keywords, Header tags and then body content.

I think that anchor text link are the highest factor followed by title, then header tags.

I also completely agree with not submitting, this will not do anything, if you get good links your site it should be fully indexed by most of the search engines within a few weeks, probably about a week in google, 1.5 - 2 in yahoo, and then who knows with MSN.[/quote]

fxci · #8 (**permalink**) 06-20-2004, 07:27 PM

does google compare the actual visible content or the code itself?