Please Add My Site To The Tch Family

[muranod]

danmurano.com

 

Please add me to the family list.

 

A site for and about photography.

 

Photo galleries from different places and of different subject matter. Current galleries: Pittsburgh, Provincetown, High Heel Races.

 

Rank Evaluation (please) when time permits.

 

I have added a link to TCH on my Links page.

 

Thanks!

 

Dan

[TCH-Don]

Welcome to the family Dan!

 

a very nice looking site Thumbs Up

 

have already marked it,

and a nice bunch of links too, thanks.

[greatfolios sysop]

A fellow shutterbug.... Welcome aboard!

 

There is a couple of us here already! nice site and good b&w's

 

Mr. Bill :Nerd:

[SEO]

Dan you have been added to our Extended Family - Personal Sites page.

 

SEO Evaluation:

 

You are not in the Google index... can I assume this is a new site?

 

Your description meta tag is too long. Try to make it one complete, concise sentence containing your most important keywords.

 

I would remove the entire 'viewing considerations' section... remember, every word you add to your page dilutes the importance of all the other words (i.e. concise is best).

 

You have an empty style tag:

<style type="text/css"></style>

 

You might also want to remove all your blank lines (within your code).

 

The site looks good (comment beyond SEO view) and you have done the basic optimization techniques. Developing more external links will help increase PageRank... you added a new one tonight!

 

Good luck.

[TCH-Don]

Dan you have one more external link,

Hope you don't mind, I really like your site!

[muranod]

SEO Evaluation:

 

 

Thanks Scott, and to everyone else for the kind words.

 

It's been up (minus some of the galleries) for several years (elsewhere, then here) in one form or another. I keep submitting it and seeing the google bot in the stats, but it never shows up in Google.

 

I'll clean up the Metatag asap. I'll also reduce viewing considerations down to a short sentence, and look at the other problems.

 

Thanks again for your expert advice!

 

Dan

[Deverill]

I'm no SEO expert, but for what it's worth:

 

You have a relatively small amount of text on your home page. Very few of your keywords are even in the text of the page. It may help to either reduce the keywords and focus on each one (or a very few) on separate pages of your site or beef up the text on the main page to say more about each keyword.

 

Remember, you don't care if they come to your main page - as long as they get into your site and you have proper navigation to the rest. For instance, you could do a page that focuses on gay pride and links to pages for or contains content about, the aids quilt and the high-heel races (which I assume are gay pride related)... then someone looking for photos in that genre would find you and then spread (hopefully) to the other pages.

 

As Scott said, you don't want to dillute your hits that would come to the gay pride section by adding in keywords and content about Paris and cats... and vice versa.

 

Hope it helps!

[muranod]

Thanks Jim. I'm happy for the helpful tips. I don't know how many times I've read the descriptions for the different meta tags, yet it's still taking me a long time to understand how they work. Guess I'm a little dense.

 

Your hints gave me some ideas for a little reorganization.

 

Now to find more time