New site needs SEO HELP HELP HELP!

emeraldisle · #1 (**permalink**) 02-17-2009, 01:27 PM

Hi, I know that I need to pull some of the javasript and styles into an external file (which I just how learned to do), but how does the SEO work look otherwise? I need help on this one, the site is not doing very well, and has some tremendous competition in just the Atlanta area alone.

Top Realtor Saundra Hunter

hawash · #2 (**permalink**) 02-17-2009, 03:48 PM

my best advise after choosing good keywords

is to put links where u see your competitor have links

and build links in websites hosted in many countries

davebarnes · #3 (**permalink**) 02-17-2009, 06:42 PM

1. This "35 Errors found while checking this document as XHTML 1.0 Transitional!" is probably not good for SEO.

2. The 3 meta tags on the homepage need to be revised. See other posts for advice on this.

3. The meta tags for each page should be unique and relevant to that page.

4. The awards page needs MORE content. Not much there for Google to chew on.

5. The Apollo logo looks awful. Which has nothing to do with SEO.

6. Build some pages that FOCUS on the NEIGHBORHOODS that Saundra specializes in.

emeraldisle · #4 (**permalink**) 02-18-2009, 03:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by davebarnes

1. This "35 Errors found while checking this document as XHTML 1.0 Transitional!" is probably not good for SEO.

5. The Apollo logo looks awful. Which has nothing to do with SEO.

6. Build some pages that FOCUS on the NEIGHBORHOODS that Saundra specializes in.

Hi Dave, THANKS,

1. What software did you use to find the 35 errors? I should choose some other format from the XHTML 1.0 Transitional, what would you recommend?

5. LOL. I am not responsible for their logo!

6. Good Idea!

SnerdeyWebs · #5 (**permalink**) 02-19-2009, 12:40 PM

Wanna know what your competition is using to get high rankings etc.. take a look at SpyFu

Most excellent information

Should be a huge help in your SEO efforts for this and any other website projects!

emeraldisle · #6 (**permalink**) 02-22-2009, 08:06 PM

OK, Thanks you guys for helping! Now I ran the site through The W3C Markup Validation Service, SiteReportCard: Web Site Optimization and Promotion Tools and cleaned up what code I could, but some of the things they was rejected did not make sense.

For w3 -it seemed to be rejecting quote marks and carrot (>) marks. From what I could see in the code, these were needed.

For SiteReportCard, it gave me warnings about scripts; when I looked at the specific line, I could not see what the error was in many cases. Here are the ones I could not resolve:

Line Description
2 Warning: <script> isn't allowed in <html> elements
12 Warning: <script> inserting "type" attribute
27 Warning: discarding unexpected <body>
30 Warning: <table> proprietary attribute "height"
48 Warning: <embed> is not approved by W3C
48 Warning: discarding unexpected </embed>
53 Warning: <table> proprietary attribute "height"
53 Warning: <table> lacks "summary" attribute

Sooooo, if someone could take a look and 'splain to me what I am missing, I would be so grateful! Thanks again all! I have just light programming skills, so I apparently am missing some information!

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