Add Me In, Please

[simplyjond]

Hi All,

 

can I join the family, please :hug: ?

 

I think this is the information you require:

 

1. http://www.simplyjond.com

 

2. Name: JonD's Tales from a Travel Warrior

 

3. Description: Tales & Things for Frequent Travelers - including stories, experiences, free items, and travel tools.

 

4. I can confirm there is link back to TCH (both graphic and text), see bottom right of home page Rock Sign

 

5. Rank evaluation would be sueful, please.

 

 

Many thanks ,

[SEO]

Simplyjond:

 

We have added you to the Extended Family - Nonprofit and Informational Sites page. I think that is the best place, let me know if you think differently.

 

SEO thoughts will be coming shortly.

[SEO]

SEO Thoughts:

 

You are in Google's Index but you have a PageRank of zero

 

I am not a fan of frames (at all). This is for many reasons but most importantly; they affect optimization of a site in a negative way. In your case, I do not see the 'visual' advantage either.

 

You need to clean up your code, you have some empty tags (e.g. <b> </b>) and some tags that are either missing an opening tag or a closing tag. Clean HTML will not only help how a site is ranked but will also load faster.

 

Shorten your keyword list.

 

I would include your name (John David) in your <title> tag and both Description and Keyword Meta tags.

 

Hope this little bit helps

[simplyjond]

Hi Scott,

 

sorry for the delay in replying - it wasn't personal, I've just been travelling and have been hard put to keep the site going let alone anything else!!

 

I value and appreciate your feedback and whenever I could make time I put a lot of effort into revamping based on your and other feedback.

 

So,

 

- done away with frames and introduced navigation below the header bar for key pages (or a link to home page for non-key pages)

- changed the entry point for the site to be the Latest Tale rather than the home page

- introduced archive material giving people access to previous Tales

- introduced a new "airline humor" page

- tidied up the code

- worked on the keywords (reduction) and introduced JonD and Jon David to those

 

There has already been some positive results from the above effort:

 

- the average time visitors spend on site has increased significantly this is obviosuly realted to an increased number of pages that they access)

- in key word phrases like "Travel Warrior" and "Napoleon Hill's Think and Grow Rich", the simplyjond site is on page #1 in google and visitors are now coming from those searches

 

I can only say thanks for your feedback and assistance.

 

Despite all the above, I still have a page rank of zero on Google. The site is being linked to from at least 3 other sites plus I'm an active participator in a number of travel related forums and always post my signature complete with site address (I can see these are coming up when I do Google searches). I have submitted related site information to Alexa (but this is not being reflected in the site listing there). I have also submitted twice to the Open Directory - to no avail.

 

So I still have a question, please? Am I missing something obvious or doing something very wrong to not have a page rank on Google?

 

thanks,

[greatfolios sysop]

Not sure if this helps but it took your main page 17 seconds to load on my machine and I am high speed- cable.

 

The background comes in right away, but the progress bar hangs 1/2 way for about 10 seconds, then comes in the rest of the way and then the page shows up.

 

My main page had a javascript that was the culprit (it took 20 seconds to load on my machine and I have a cable conection.... zoom!) changed that out and now, Bang! it's there!

 

Thought you might want to know....

 

Mr. Bill :Nerd:

[SEO]

Am I missing something obvious or doing something very wrong to not have a page rank on Google?

 

Time. If you do not receive a PageRank within 30 days post back and I will take a closer look. More then likely, it is just a matter of time.

[simplyjond]

Mr Bill - thanks for the info, I'll look and see what's causing the problems. I think you could be right as there is a java script there.

 

Scott - I guess patience is not one of my strongest suits. I'll try holding my breath for 30 days and see if that helps

 

thanks to all - your input and advice is much appreciated.

 

simplyjond