Please Add Me

[jklem]

1. http://www.tiferetinstitute.org

 

2. Tiferet Institute for Jewish Meditation

 

3. Teaching Jewish meditation through classes, retreats and individual sessions.

 

4. Link added to bottom of home page

 

Rank Evaluation (please and thank you).

 

 

thanks

 

 

Jon Klem

[SEO]

Jon:

 

Sorry to leave you hanging. Will be out of town for another 5 days... will get to your site next week.

 

Sorry for the delay

[SEO]

Jon:

 

Your site has been added to our Extended Family page.

 

SEO thoughts will be coming shortly.

Edited October 19, 2003 by dsdemmin

[SEO]

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

[jklem]

Thanks -

 

Great advice - I'll try a bunch of those changes and see what happens.

 

-jon