Hi, just re-launching my site. Any comments or ideas welcome. Meta tags etc or site layout. Pointers welcome to help move it up the rankings.

thanks
steve

You have got an excellent site there. Good amount of text and nice pics but the ads draw attention away from you coz they are right beside the text.

2. Are they paying you well to advertise them on YOUR website? Or are they just affiliate links? If they are not paying you then I suggest that you either shrink them down and place them elsewhere or remove them altogether.

3. You should rework the navigational links as they are very pixelated. Go for a different look.

4. Remove the affiliate blue vertical bar on the right that's got the affiliate program.

5. METATAGS: First you have <TITLE>, then you have Metatags for description and keywords. Great. That's all you need. Remove everything else from it. Otherwise you are telling google bots to stay away for a couple of days... You don't want to do that!!

6. Add these METAtags:
<META NAME="robots" CONTENT="index, follow">
<META NAME="GOOGLEBOT" CONTENT="INDEX, FOLLOW">

7. If you need cash from the site real bad I only recommend ONE major earner:
http://www.hearandplay.com/at.cgi/216621/course.html

8. Have a look at http://ejrs.com/webmasters.html

Notice I put all the affiliate links at the side in teh blue while the white side is my main content. Some people think it is a weird way of doing so but IT WORKS!!! I get 15,000 visits a day on my site. I have 2 major sites and both get that any per day. So I am speaking from experience. Some like it some don't but end of teh day fact is people use the site and it's not just hits. They are repeat users. That's what you want... stickability.

Your site can go really far. I really love your site and I really hope you succeed. Please don't hesitate to contact me if u have questions. There in an online live help setup on my site. That's a direct connecttion to me. Ask me anything and I will be glad to assist you.

Hope your site prospers you greatly. More power to ya.

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Hi thanks for taking a look at the site, will attend to the affiliates shrink them a bit. Will add the meta tags you suggested.
What about this tag
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> do i need it?

Should i re-make the pages for a 800 x 600 screen resoulution?? or is there a tool to detect what a person has on their computer and automatically change it??

It won't hurt ya to keep
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">

If you setup your page width to 750 px
you are doing great. have a great day.

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