I am very frustrated; we have had http://www.lakehartwell-realestate.com for over two years. Still no rankings, while other sites that do not have the meta-tags, alts, or content that this site has continue to climb in the rankings. The index page has 184 words instead of the 250 it should, but I cannot believe this is it. Key words are used often in text and in alts. Listed with dmoz.

I have been thinking of getting a software like web pro gold. Any other suggestions would be welcomed.

first of all, i like the site....ok, the flash intro is not search engine friendly, then it redirects to your main page, i dont think search engines will like that either.

personally, i would drop the flash intro & use the redirected page as the index....
that will definetly help you with rankings.

theres probably more, but i am a newbie :-)

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first of all, i like the site....ok, the flash intro is not search engine friendly, then it redirects to your main page, i dont think search engines will like that either.

personally, i would drop the flash intro & use the redirected page as the index....
that will definetly help you with rankings.

theres probably more, but i am a newbie :-)

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Drop the flash intro, drop the (in my opinion) obnoxious, unwelcome music. Go straight to your index2 page only rename it index.html

Just think of all those office workers surrepticiously (and quietly) looking for real estate deals - then yur music comes blasting through air forcing them to exit FAST!

You might introduce some white space between paragraphs and set a nice font to your text.
it's fairly hard to read the text all run together
on this page for example:
http://www.lakehartwell-realestate.com/relocation.html

One last thing - I would give the catagory "listings" top priority on the home page and not hide it in the pull-down menu.

Your keywords all look fine to me.

That's it!

Snowflakegirl

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Charlene and Anthony,

I can appreciate your frustration! The flash intro is a big problem. Here's what the search engines see when they look at your address: lakehartwell-realestate.com/

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Spidered Text :
Remax Properties

Spidered Links :


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Yup. Nothing. And, since you have all your backlinks - links from directories and other sites to yours - sent to your main URL, you aren't getting credit for the links. I agree that the intro needs to go.

And, I would redo the menu to take it out of the dropdown, or at least put a text navigation for the whole site at the bottom of each page. The other thing you want to see when you check what the search engines see is a list of links to each of your pages.

You need to upgrade your links to some pages with higher PR. And, while you do use some keywords, they're not in the right places. Your Description and Keyword meta tags are too long.

Do some research on SEO. Or, (and here's the shameless promotion) give me a call. I work with a lot of REALTORS.

Hope this helps.

Kathleen

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Thanks for the replies; I thought one of my employees had fixed the index page to have text and links on it. We have fixed that and added text links at the bottom of all the pages. The client wants a flash intro I am not crazy about them myself.

I am confused about the length of the description and metatags. I have 36 words and 264 characters in the description and 96 words and 609 characters in the metatags. I knew these were a little long but I did not think they were out of line. These also have comas with spaces in them. I have heard you do not need the spaces after the comas. Anyone have any input on that?

Thanks again,
Tray

Bump...

Try,

I thought the owner of the site was looking for help. If I'd known it was you, I wouldn't have made the offer for assistance!

I do know that realtors seldom have time or knowledge to fix these things themselves, so felt comfortable offering more help than they'd get in the forum.

Maybe you could send the backlinks to the index2 page and try to get some visibility for that page? Or counsel your client that while the intro page is cute, if they want the site to be a lead-generation tool, they need to forego it.

Don't know about the spaces after the commas, but here's a free meta tag analyzer that gives some good info:

http://www.widexl.com/remote/search-...-analyzer.html

it calculates size and relevancy of the meta tags.

Kathleen

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Lol.

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If your clients insist upon their fantabulous flash just send them to this forum or send em to Jacob's Alert box: http://www.useit.com/alertbox/9605.html

If that don't give em the sense of God, nuthin will

The obvious and popular answer is "get rid of the flash".

1. The sound is not a good idea
2. Not many will wait for it to load and play
3. Bad for Search Engines
4. Old school. I jokingly tell people that if they want to give the impression that they have been around for a long time ... use frames and a cheesy flash intro. "Both are bad ideas"


What key phrases are you looking for?

Go to inventory.overture.com to see if it even matters for those phrases.

Link the text inside your paragraphs.


Keith

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