New Site Up for Review - Law / Legal Related - Thank You

dglaeser · #1 (**permalink**) 09-26-2006, 12:32 PM

Hi everyone. I have launched a new website this month, and am not really getting the search rankings I'd like (if any at all). Now I realize that it takes the engines some time to find us, but it is catching us. We show up when you put the domain in the search, but not really for our keywords yet. The site is www.search-for-servers.com Not sure if that link will get broken or not, so it is www . search-for-servers . com Any and all reviews would be much appreciated. Am I just being too impatient with the search engines? Or primary keyword is 'process servers'. Thanks!

iany · #2 (**permalink**) 09-27-2006, 01:42 PM

Site looks good actually but that is not your problem, I fear.

Firstly on home page the header section is 111 lines long.Ouch. Poor search engines lose the will to live before they find any copy. This is a long way down the page at line 360 or there abouts.

Also, get the JavaScript into an off page includes and if it doesn't work by doing that - find another script that does.

It would help if you weren't using tables - but that's a way other ball game.

Your site is indexed by Google:
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en...G=Search&meta=
about 130 odd pages, however, you will note that the title of every page is the same. This does not help with the spidering process. You should be looking at titles that reflect the content of the page.

You didn't say how long the site has been around and that is material in whether you are being picked up by key word in Google. I suspect not very long as you have no PR indicated.

Go pay some attention to some of the detail, check that your HTML validates, cut down on the header material (including dumping all reference to FrontPage, work on your page titles, etc and above all have patience.)

Cheers

dglaeser · #3 (**permalink**) 09-27-2006, 05:55 PM

I appreciate your response. Thanks for the kind words on the looks of the site. I never thought about 'slimming' the header down. I will change the titles around to be a lot better as well. As for the javascript, I will see what I can do to get that into an external file. Would moving the title tag further up in the header help my cause? Thanks again.

iany · #4 (**permalink**) 09-27-2006, 06:28 PM

Yes,

Best to have title just after <head>.

On the menu front, if you must use JavaScript have a look at http://www.burmees.nl/menu/menus.htm. These have been upgraded over the years and work on IE. Ff and Opera. I have used an older version on a very early site of mine that needs to be updated but the menus work fine.

However, you should be aware that search engines cannot follow Javascript menus. You could do the same in style sheet. I have just sorted one not a million miles away in style to yours. If you send me a pm I will send you the code for the template (and it works across everything except Mac IE5.5)

Cheers