The above site has been live for over a year. I am making no progress in google - 105 backlinks for the last 6 months.

Could you tell me why I seem to be frozen with Google?

thanks

Laura

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I'm not an SEO expert, but some things I noticed.

The biggest is that you are in an EXTREMELY competitive field, so you are going to have to optimize for niche terms, ie "Hewlett Packard Black Inkjet Cartridge #015" instead of "inkjet cartridges". You might try doing this for items that you have in stock that are hard to get elsewhere, for starters. That might help conversions.

Your code to content ratio is pretty awful. Moving the javascript to its own file, and doing other optimizations on the code will help a lot. If your shopping cart web app allows it, you might consider changing the layout to a standards conforming layout using css to define it. If it doesn't, then you can at least move a lot of the appearance stuff into the stylesheet that's currently in the html, then don't define that stuff when you're creating new html pages and let the stylesheet do its job.

105 backlinks isn't very many at all, in fact, that's about three week's worth on a site that's been up over a year. I recommend doing 20-30 submissions a week working through the Vilesilencer SE friendly directory list for starters.

Articles about your field submitted to the article banks might help. I don't know if you have anything newsworthy to do Press Releases on. You can also consider adding a blog and blogging once a week. Pinging the rss ags when you blog will get you backlinks. And getting on some blogrolls will get you more.

I'm sure there will be others who chime in with more advice.

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bj,
I will check out vilesilencer - I hadn't seen that before.

I currently have about 2700 backlinks on Yahoo...so there is something specific that I am doing wrong on Google.

I will try to figure out how to make the other changes you mentioned.

Thanks for your time.

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Google never shows all your backlinks. They only show a small portion of them. That ratio looks about right. However, you do need more backlinks and maybe some stronger keyphrase rich content, targeting niches.

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Lack of DOCUMENT definition at the start of your code could be a reason for Google problems. Does googlebot appear in your stats and spider the whole site regularly?

Asking spiders to crawl in your meta tags is wasted as these meta tags only work on negative commands not positive ones.

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I've got to agree with bj...'printer toner' in google brings up almost 23,000,000 results. HIGH competition for your industry.

You may also want to consider revamping your markup. There is a lot of code there, wiht very little google can actually use to help boost your ranking.

The lower your code-copy ratio, the better off you are.

HOpe that helps.