Web Page disappeared from Google

[schachin]

Hello -
Here are some things you can do -
1) use a proper meta description tag with kw's
2) get backlinks
3) add a paragraph of kw optimized text at the top of the site
4) make your title tag more relevant
5) make sure you have submitted a sitemap to google sitemaps
(easy to do and google gives you assistance in how)
6) when in sitemaps get your proper verify key and remove whatever ones there are extra
7) remove the extra keyword meta tag - you can only have one of each (one description, one keyword etc)
put your meta tags in the proper place (style should go under those)
9) use more text on your pages with absolute links and kw related anchor text
10) add descriptive alt and title tags to each image (look up matt cutts and image tags for a good video on how to do this properly)
11) start a blog and link to your site
12) take the spaces out of your file and image file names (the %20 indicates the space)
13) make sure your page names are keyword descriptive and not abbreviations
14) Not a bad idea to get an web designer to clean-up the code though not vital
15) read up on basic SEO techniques and Google Webmaster guidelines.. that will help you get all these basics correct..

good luck with the site!!!
smiles!

[jonisolis]

Have your artist wife go to Smartist-telesummit .com site
and listen to the two free audios for some marketing tips for artists.

What do successful artists do
smARTist™ Telesummit 2008

Audio on this page too:
smARTist™ Telesummit : smARTist™ Telesummit 2008

I don't have anything to do with this site and I don't make any money sending people there.
I am just an artist that found the audios helpful.

[Kate Lennon]

Rose,
Not my intention to be rude, just wrote in a hurry, as I was on my way out. However, I think I was more blunt/direct than rude, and that's a different thing altogether. I say what I think; and, correct me if I'm mistaken, but isn't this supposed to be a forum for professional webmasters? In which case it should be possible to discuss these issues in a forthright manner, without having to worry about offending anyone's sensibilities. The design of the site is abysmal; that's just my honest opinion. The paintings themselves are very good, and deserve a better website. He's not doing the artist any favours by trying to promote them on an amateurish website like that. A professional website - or at least a more professional-looking website - doesn't cost much these days.
The rest of my advice stands, especially re expanding the title. The title (imo - others here will disagree, I know) is the second most important factor in getting found in searches (after the domain name). Merely titling the site "Connie Bryson", when he could add another six or seven keywords, is a wasted opportunity. In addition, Connie Bryson is a famous name in the world of jazz, so there's a possibility of confusion, especially as the word "studio" (in the domain name) could also refer to a recording studio.

[jonisolis]

She may also enjoy checking out this artist site: intricateart.com
Her site is based on the blog program wordpress. She also designs
custom wordpress business bogs for artist and others.

also...
artist market Painter's MarketPlace

Connie's art is very good. I wish you and her luck with her site.

[scanmonkey]

Incredible's suggestion to get some backlinks with "Connie Bryson" in the anchor text is on the money.

You can get links from bookmarking in sites like digg, propeller, stumble, plugim etc, , articles, press releases, free directories, and posting in art related forums or blogs.

[simonmohr]

Hi David

Personally I don't think the design is a problem - Google isn't interested in design and the 'look' will not affect the rankings. I can't imagine a potential buyer, or someone who has an interest in Connie's paintings being put off by the design of the site. I think its quite charming.

Kate - Rose is quite right - you are rude. David is looking for SEO advice and to start your post with "First off, the pictures are great. The site is crap. Get a proper website" has no relevance to the question at all.

David - can I recommend another site where Connie might want to display her lovely paintings? MyArtProfile.com is a free site for artists and gets a fairly good amount of traffic. The site is young but growing all the time and there's a really good community of English speaking international artists (from over 70 countries) to engage with.

All the best
Simon

[davidweb]

Hi,

I want to thank you in advance for responding to this, I truly appreciate it. I just want to mention that I am not a professional programmer and I designed this web page in Dreamweaver. If you do respond please do so in the simplest terms possible. My wife is an artist and we designed a web site, Connie Bryson on which to display her art. We published it to the web in May or June of 2006. By April or May of 2007 if you typed in "Connie Bryson" on Google her page had risen "organically" or "naturally" to the first page of search results. By September she was #1 on the search results. I typed in "Connie Bryson" about two weeks ago and it was like her page had vanished completely from Google. I searched 27 pages of Goggle results and could not find her site. She was still #1 on Yahoo, but had completely disappeared on Google. Any thoughts on what happenned to her site and how I can re-list her site on Google would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks again,

David

When we checked your html source code, we observed two keyword tags as :-

<meta name="Keywords" content="art, Connie Bryson, Oil Painting, Posters, realism, still-life, painting " />
<meta name="Keywords" content="Connie, Bryson" />

This could have led to removal of your website. keywords is a critical meta tag, and google/yahoo does not allow two meta keywords tags at the same time.

Remove second keywords tag, and i am sure it will be beneficial for this website.

Moreover the HTML CODING OF YOUR PAGE IS AS GIVEN BELOW :-

<META name="verify-v1" content="xXSCQ32O60dyqpWUg1XBN83ATOGzx197VuaQRrgr3 wE=" /> -> REMOVE THIS
<META name="verify-v1" content="Wb/EXwi6ZFCOA6lz9c6C5f+4yMDs4HDp3CSlSaLPRtU=" /> -> REMOVE THIS
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>Connie Bryson </title>
<style type="text/css"> - -> MOVE THIS BELOW KEYWORDS META TAG
<!--
XYZ
-->
</style>
<meta name="Description" content="Home of Connie Bryson's Original Oil Paintings" />
<meta name="Keywords" content="art, Connie Bryson, Oil Painting, Posters, realism, still-life, painting " />
<meta name="Keywords" content="Connie, Bryson" /> --> DUPLICATE KEYWORD META TAG, REMOVE THIS

I am sure your rankings will restore, once you carry above changes.

Here comes David Web for David Bryson

[Rjlintl]

It would also be very helpful if you place the following information below
at the top of the page where it goes.
<title>connie bryson studio, top quality oil paintings, landscapes, cityscapes,art, </title>

<meta name="description" content="top published artist">

<meta name="keywords" content="art,
oil paintings,
oil painting,
landscape oil painting,
original oil painting,
oil painting reproduction,
art graceful oil painting,
adamson artist oil painting,
seashore oil painting,
portrait,
oil painting for sale,
oil painting technique,
custom oil painting,
abstract oil painting,
oil painting,
artist,
oil painting from photo,
buy oil painting,
wholesale oil painting,
animal oil painting
">
Search engines only scroll so far for information on the site and if it isn't easy for them to find they move on. Plus it has been my experience for over 10 years that you need something on the first page besides just photos.
Hope this helps
Doubtful

[PumaSpirit]

Rose,
Not my intention to be rude, just wrote in a hurry, as I was on my way out. However, I think I was more blunt/direct than rude, and that's a different thing altogether. I say what I think; and, correct me if I'm mistaken, but isn't this supposed to be a forum for professional webmasters? In which case it should be possible to discuss these issues in a forthright manner, without having to worry about offending anyone's sensibilities. The design of the site is abysmal; that's just my honest opinion. The paintings themselves are very good, and deserve a better website. He's not doing the artist any favours by trying to promote them on an amateurish website like that. A professional website - or at least a more professional-looking website - doesn't cost much these days.

You were not rude at all, Kate, and made some valid points. The site is anything but professional and the request was for help, not pacification.

I would also place more text on the site. If you don't know what to write about... Every painting is a good opportunity because it can help create good content with its descriptions. As we all know, search engines like text not pictures. While re-designing the site I would also, as suggested above, look for a more appropriate domain name which includes at least one good keyword. Having your own name as a domain name may be good for your ego, but a well chosen domain name can get you much further in the SE game.

[ShaunParkerHP]

I have to say there is some interesting concepts here,

first of all I think the problem is covered in the first post by Cranky D,

The following posts are a good mixture of helpful advice, one ore two blunt observations and some misconceptions. This post starts of in reference to a specific term which is not competitive.

If the search term was more competitive or the site was specifically targeting some generic industry keywords then I guess it would need to be improved with many of the suggestions and perhaps even the structure and architecture itself would need improvement.

However whilst it may be good business practice for a website to target a broader set of terms the post is asking about a specific problem. This I do not see as a 'glitch' and I do see as an issue, it does not make any sense to just sit around assuming it is a glitch though that is simple bad advice.

Fix the issues Dave referenced, then when you get time improve the site using the helpful advice in the thread, from a business perspective if you want to sell to a wider audience or get a higher profile for the artist you have to determine what your target market is and then do the keyword research, once this is done apply the findings to the site using the info above to direct you.

One point that is important is whether this is what you want, if not then get your listing back by applying the fixes and also get a few new inbound links to the site using the target term as the anchor text (link text).