SEO

axeman: Your site has been added to our Extended Family - Nonprofit page SEO thoughts: You have not done some of the very basics... read over some of the writing here at TotalChoice and implement the suggested tags, text, etc. After this, if you would like us to evaluate your site, we would be happy to do so. Search Engine Optimization - An Overview Web Site Promotion Tutorials Good luck.

Ted: Your site has been added to our Extended Family page SEO thoughts: You have not done some of the very basics... read over some of the writing here at TotalChoice and implement the suggested tags, text, etc. Search Engine Optimization - An Overview Web Site Promotion Tutorials Your site only consists of one page; a one page site will have a very, very difficult time getting ranked. Some would argue that it will be impossible. Thus, the second step (after reviewing and implementing suggestions from our writings), would be to add content. Good luck.

teddupuie: Please refer to How to add your site thread. I need a description for your site, much better you write it then I

cyberdoc: Your site has been added to our Extended Family page SEO thoughts: You have not done some of the very basics... read over some of the writing here at TotalChoice and implement the suggested tags, text, etc. After this, if you would like us to evaluate your site, we would be happy to do so. Search Engine Optimization - An Overview Web Site Promotion Tutorials Good luck.

You’re quick! I should have mentioned.... you will want to have a unique title, meta description and meta keyword tag on all your pages. The main keyword phrase should be the link title. An example: The link text: math competitions Page Title: 'Math Competitions from Free Math Help . com' Page Description: 'Math competition resource page from Free Math Help . com' [or something along those lines] Keywords: 'math,math competition,free math help' [nice and brief] <h1>Math Competitions</h1> at the top. <b>math competitions</b> somewhere in the body. Yep... you have a little more work to do beside the site map

Your site has been added to our Extended Family - Nonprofit and Informational Sites page. SEO Evaluation: You are not in the Google index How new is the site? Your site will now be spidered by Google since you have been included on our family page 1. You need alt tags on all you images (width and height values would be advisable as well). Oh... you may have them but with syntax errors: a. <img src="images/HomeButton.bmp" alt="Return to Diversity Lodge Home page" width="157" height="27" border="0"> b. <img src="images/DNButton.bmp" alt="Diversity Lodge Charity News" width="157" height="27" border="0"> c. <img src="images/CUButton.bmp" alt="Contact Diversity Lodge" width="157" height="27" border="0"> 2. Keyword Tag How about: <META NAME="KEYWORDS" CONTENT="diversity lodge,feemasonry,masons,Prince Hall,Puerto Rico,Ceiba,PR,Cieba,US Naval Station Roosevelt Roads,Roosevelt Roads,Viginia Lodges,MWPH Grand Lodge of Virginia"> 3. Body Text and Headers Would like to see all of your keywords used in the body text of your home page. If the keyword is not appropriate for your body text, then it should not be a keyword. Would also like to see your main keyword phrase used in a header (<h1>), the beginning of a sentence and bolded within the body of the text. Hope this helps.... enjoy Puerto Rico!

SEO Evaluation: You are in Google's index Thumbs Up PageRank = 5 Backlinks (relevant) = 109 Thumbs Up A look at your home page: 1. Title Tag... how about: <title>Free math help for algebra, geometry, calculus, trigonometry, arithmetic and fractions from Free Math Help . com</title> 2. Description Tag <META NAME="description" CONTENT="Free math help to students in math subjects including algebra, geometry, trigonometry, calculus, and all other areas of math."> 3. Keyword Tag <META NAME="keywords" CONTENT="math,math help,algebra,geometry,trig,trigonometry,calculus,precalculus,prealgebra"> 4. Change 'Problem of the Day' to 'Math Problem of the Day'. 5. Change some of your link titles to include 'Math'. e.g. 'ask a math expert', 'math competitions', 'math glossary', etc. 6. On subsequent pages, change 'More Resources:' to 'Math Resources' and make it a header tag (<h2>). 7. The top link of your 'More Resources:' section should point to your home page and use the text 'Math Home'. 8. Site Map Have actual links to all these pages. Would love to see a 'web hosting by total choice' on all you pages Very, very nice site... I just recommended it to two homeschoolers and one educator (my wife) Take care and again Thumbs Up on your resource.

SEO Thoughts: You are not in Google's index The best way to be included within Google is to have Google follow a link from an outside page to your site (Google calls this a backlink). We have included you on our family pages which will help getting you indexed. The more sites that link to you the better The first step (and one of the most important) is to evaluate, research and determine the best keyword phrase(s). This is a prerequisite to any thoughtful conversation regarding search engine optimization. Thus, you have some homework to do first I will continue my thoughts but will make comments fairly generic (sorry). 1. You need alt tags on all you images (width and height values would be advisable as well). Place real descriptions in those alt tags. 2. CRITICAL Change your title tag. <title>Home</title> to <title>first word(s) should be your number one keyword phrase</title> 3. Description Tag <META NAME="description" CONTENT="ProfitWaves.com is a service that provides sensible trading solutions with an emphasis on education and risk management over inflated promises and false hope. "> Again, I like keyword phrase right up there in the front. Also, I like to keep this to a minimum number of words. Too many words dilute the importance of the most relevant ones. 4. Keyword Tag - you need one. <META NAME="keywords" CONTENT="word1,word2,word3,etc. "> 5. Headers, Body Text and Other You need to rework your body text. Too much text on a home page dilutes the relevant text. Keyword phrases should be involved in headers (<h1>), first words of sentences and throughout the body of the text. I recommend an occasional <b> around a keyword phrase within the body of the text. Think about your link text (a lot!), it is critical. I always recommend a site map off your home page... makes spidering your entire site easier. Hope this helps.

SEO thoughts: You are not in the Google index The best way to be included within Google is to have Google follow a link from an outside page to your site (Google calls this a backlink). We have included you on our family pages which will help in getting you indexed. The more sites that link to you the better Random order evaluation: 1. You need alt tags on all you images (width and height values would be advisable as well). Place real descriptions in those alt tags. Example: Change: <img src="images/home_title.gif" alt="left arc" width="595" height="100" border="0"> To: <img src="images/home_title.gif" alt="Tiferet Institute for Jewish Meditation" width="595" height="100" border="0"> 2. See a typo: meditators vs. mediators 3. Change <a href="index.php">Home</a> on all your pages to: <a href="http://www.tiferetinstitute.org" title="Tiferet Institute for Jewish Meditation">Home</a> Explanation: Search engines index specific URLs, not pages. Thus, http://www.tiferetinstitute.org and http://www.tiferetinstitute.org/index.php are two different URLs. If you reference both, you will end up with both being indexed which will result in a sharing of 'credit' (e.g. PageRank) between both URLs. Much better to be consistent and feed all 'credit' to just one. Make sense? The title attribute is a little SEO bonus 4. You could add a title attribute to all you links (with keyword phrase). e.g. title="Meditation Classes and Retreats" 5. I would like to see three header tags surrounding a keyword phrase. How about adding: H1 { FONT-SIZE: 12px; LINE-HEIGHT: 16px; FONT-FAMILY: verdana, sans-serif; font-weight : bold; color : Black; } Then changing <span class="eventtitle">What is meditation?</span> to <H1>What is meditation?</H1> Same for 'What is Jewish meditation?' too. 6. Add one more Header, how about: <TR> <td valign="baseline" width="150"><H1>Jewish Meditation</H1><br><img src="images/upcoming_events.gif" alt="" width="125" height="17" border="0"></td> <td colspan=8 ><IMG height=50 src="images/spacer.gif" width=1 border=0></td> </TR> This would place 'Jewish Meditation' right above the upcoming events image (a top of page keyword phrase header). 7. Submit this site to dmoz. Nice site! Good luck

Chad: Your site has been added to our Extended Family page. Nice shots Thumbs Up What kind of research were you involved in? Where?

Dukeblue: Your site has been added to our Extended Family - Nonprofit and Informational Sites page. A SEO evaluation is coming shortly.

John: You site has been added to our Extended Family - Personal Sites page. Just spent several days in the Pittsburgh area... we (wife and three children) had an excellent time. Pittsburg is a very nice city [was a bit surprised]. Driving into the city at night from the southwest (through a tunnel) makes quite a visual impact!

Your site has been added to our Extended Family - Personal Sites page. It is interesting how you have almost come full circle... you think a keyboard may be in you future?

You site has been added to our Extended Family page. Rank evaluation will be coming shortly.

Jon: Your site has been added to our Extended Family page. SEO thoughts will be coming shortly.

Brian: Your site has a nice clean look... I like it! It as been added to our Extended Family - Personal Sites page. Could not find the 'web hosting with TotalChoice' link, am I missing it?

This would create an infinete loop, you are diredting the same url to the same url. index.htm = index.htm Hmmm... you might have the same loop with mysite.com vs. www.mysite.com too [sorry was not looking at the specifics ].

1. I think this is what you are looking for: CSS Alt Tags 2. It would not be specific but would cover all links: ><head> <base target="_blank"> </head>

Soms: As I stated in the email (and PM), we really try to keep any commercial requests/offers out of these forums. We would like it an exchange of ideas, information, support, general help, etc. without any commercial flair or biases. I personally think it is best for everyone. Having different TotalChoice people telling you two different things is definitely a mistake on our part. This is being addressed right now and we will come to a uniform consensus shortly (e.g. I may stand corrected). Please don't stay Mad!!!, we are a happy family

I have addressed this very important issue in other threads. Often people are not consistent on the 'exact' URL when referencing a page. Google and the others use the actual URL as the 'key' to their large indexes (i.e. databases). That is why different URLs give different PageRanks even though it is the same page. The solution: redirect 301: a permanent redirect that will 'pass' PageRank (i.e. backlinks) to the 'correct' URL. Good luck

Straight from Google's mouth: Now having read that, I know that flash links can be followed (and subsequent pages indexed). Now having said that, I would always recommend adding 'hard' links to a page. As Jim said, you could add these far below your site so they would not add, or in this case detract, from you visual presentation.

Sorry... been away since Thursday of last week. Some thoughts: Actually Dave, all backlinks with any PageRank helps, just at varying degrees. Backlinks that are shown via the toolbar are those with a PageRank of 3 or higher. It is obviously best to get high PRd sites to link back to you. A large pinch! [ Thumbs Up Jim] DarqFlare try: +www.YourSite.+com, this will show all sites. Now on to you Mr. Jim: First things first... can not compare AltaVista results to Google (or any other Search Engines). These are algos of very different color. AltaVista really used to be a something special... not anymore. A very insignificant player (too bad). They are trying to come back but ??? Thus, AltaVista "reads" all text that appears on a page. It "likes" keywords in the Title, Meta Tags, comments, Headers and in the first lines of text. AltaVista shows 26 pages linking to your site. They show no links to the number one site You had three specific questions: 1. Review what I hinted to above and compare the two. 2. I get the same results (basically) using the exact phrase "key west" church vs. key west church. 3. Have you looked using +www.YourSite.+com ? Final note on Google: I am still quite confident that things are not running exactly correctly at Google. I actually have learned that they are running three different algos every two weeks and working very hard to get things back to 'relevancy'. New filters are put into play routinely (and then taken out again) and what really bothers me (and I am sure Google) it the lack of periodic updates. A lot of people (actually most SEO types) are talking about a continuous update/upgrade [referred to as everflux) and that we will never see a 'dance' again. Not to get too winded here but think about it.... Look back at the equations for calculating PageRank. One must have the PageRank of the entire index in order to have a PageRank for an individual page. The PageRank is dependant upon the PageRank of every single page that links back to it. Thus one must do many reiterations to accomplish a 'real' PageRank over the entire index. This is what occurs during the 'dance'. How can PageRank have any meaning unless Google continues to run routine updates... it can not. Time will tell.

Tracy: Edit > Preferences > Code Format > Preferences > Code Format The 'Tag Library Editor' will allow you to alter every single tag (e.g. no line break after particular tag). Assuming you have Dreamweaver MX. In older version you altered the source format directly (SourceFormat.txt). Hope this helps.

DarqFlare: Did you see the new comments?

More SEO thoughts: 1. Change Webhosting to Web Hosting 2. Description/Keywords Both way too long! Start your description with your number one keyword phrase. Make it only one complete sentence. Do not dilute your keywords with having so many... focus only on the top ones. 3. Change your title (<title>OMGN: Online Multiplayer Gaming Network • Home</title>. How about: <title>Online Multiplayer Gaming Network • OMGN</title> or <title>Online Multiplayer Gaming Network</title> Your title, description and keywords should contain your major keyword phrase(s). They should start with the number one phrase. Before I go further, it is critical that we know what phrase we are going after. What is your best phrase? For sake of conversation let us say that 'online gaming' is the "best" phrase. Therefore: <title>Online Gaming Site: Online Multiplayer Gaming Network</title> <meta name="description" content="Our online gaming site, Online Multiplayer Faming Network (OMGN), is the online multiplayer gaming resource. " /> <meta name="keywords" content="online gaming,videogames,top games,multiplayer gaming,omgn" /> Now use your keyword phrase in <h1> tags and in the body of your text. Try <b> tags around the phrase sometimes in the body of the text. 4. Change all your internal 'home' links to 'online gaming home' (or keyword phrase of your choice). 5. I am assuming you want to add ads on the Tower Ad column... real bad idea! Put the Tower Ad on the bottom right (under Button links) and widen your central body section to 'fill' the space. OK... that is all you get!