Deverill Posted November 19, 2003 Posted November 19, 2003 I give up trying to figure out Google. Just when I think I have everything figured out between posts on the 'net, info from Google, info from Scott, something happens that convinces me that I know nothing about Google! I have a client that's a fishing charter boat captain and built a site for him. I've tried to optimize it from start to now and I've gotten OK results for a pretty competitive field. He has a 1969 GTO (car for those unfamiliar) that he loves. He wanted to put some pictures on the web and let folks see his baby. Well, I noticed that a little over half of our search-engine visitors came looking for the car. That doesn't help determine if the fishing site is working so I split the car into its own subdomain to keep my stats pure. Tonight I just looked for the fun of it to see how it ranks for "1969 GTO" and it was at the bottom of a page -- page 1! This doggone mostly unoptimized (has a desc but no keywords), trivial content (3 small paragraphs), show-off-my-car site with 8 pics and links back to the fishing site, PageRank of ZERO, nothing page is page 1 in searching! And that's out of 53,600 results Google returned on that phrase! I give up! Quote
SEO Posted November 19, 2003 Posted November 19, 2003 You made me laugh Jim... thank you. Maybe you are better then you think! Don't look at any rankings right now... they are not real. Wait a couple days and maybe it won't be so high and you won't be so discouraged... boy if that does not sound funny (worse results for encouragement!). P.S. Your images are not showing up on the goat (car for those unfamiliar) page. Quote
Deverill Posted November 21, 2003 Author Posted November 21, 2003 Ah, that's better - I'm down to position #10 now. Much better than #1! Thanks for the note about the pics - they are part of the template from the main site so the links need and extra "/" or something. I'll fix it when I get home. Quote
jslagle Posted November 22, 2003 Posted November 22, 2003 Ah, that's better - I'm down to position #10 now. Much better than #1! That's because I added "1969 GTO" to all the pages on all of my sites When I was in college my brother and I had a 56 chevy coupe, two tone green and white factory paint, wide white walls with the little stock hub caps, looked like a stock 6 cylinder even had a little exhaust pipe sticking out under the rear bumper. 389 HO tri-power under the hood, Headmann headers, and an Olds Hydramatic with a B&M shift kit Thumbs Up Quote
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