Hello, i just signed up here tonight. Here is my dillema
My site is having a terrible time with Google. Id say 3/4 of it is in supplemental. Ive hired SEO people, tried new things, etc and still we are in it. We do come out for awhile, at least some fall off the list, then they come back on down the road.
This is a miva site and we do have all Dynamic links showing as static. We have all our titles in <H1> and description done the best we can for the products.
We have done so many things to try to get out of this dilemma im beginning to go insane at this point.
One thing Specifically I wanted to ask you is about my titles. By a module, each title is listed of the Category or the product shown AND behind it is a slogan that one of the SEO people I hired in the past told me to do, For instance, the product is a "Cut Chemise", so the system would have the title showing "Cut Chemise - Buy Now!" same would go for a category title.
He claimed this would help sales..... But im wonder if this even though the front part of the title changes, the last part "Buy - Now" would or could be throwing it into supplemental as its the same words for all the titles.
At this point im just trying to figure out all angles that may be causing this.
If anyone has the time, or just wants to help a fellow e dude out, please id appreciate all comments and suggestions.
PS I just bought a link in the directory here tonight..I hope that will help
Thank you for your time...
I just checked your site briefly and WOW! Its pretty "HOT" as I see it within the eyes of the Big G Machine. And you can easily figure that out by doing image searches in both Google and Yahoo on "lesbians" or "gay men" or "sexy men" or "sexy women" or just "lingerie" etc. and you will see a VAST difference between the two. Basically, Yahoo is XXX and Google is PG-13. And, your site is certainly not x-rated but the images are not PG-13 either. So, I think that is probably your first biggest problem.
Secondly, are you using a google sitemap? If not, then I would strongly consider doing so. And below are the basics on how that works:
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This will take some time, but perhaps the best way to increase page rank and get more good backlinks is to first sign up at Google Webmaster Central:
then after verifying your site, install a Google XML sitemap on your site and then submit it to your Google webmaster account. Then, whenever you make more changes, you have to create new XML sitemaps and submit them to your Webmaster Tools account again and again. And you want to do this as often as possible so that you (and Google) can both get more detailed information about your site, your site's Google traffic and, most importantly, what keywords and phrases is the Google traffic using to come to your site.
After some time, once you have a better knowledge of all of that, then you'll have to audit and research your site (install a webalizer program to do this if possible) in order to start to match the Google traffic keywords to your site's specific pages. Then, as much as possible, it will be necessary to change your pages meta tags and keywords so that they are the same as those that are being used to find your pages within Google. And if your site is 100+ pages or so, then you should plan on spending quite a long time to complete this Google traffic keywords/website page development phase. And, as I wrote above, it will take time, but, if you do this, and do it correctly for all of your site's pages, then Google will eventually increase your pages rank levels. That is part of what Google looks for in a well-administered site.
Additionally, after you register at Google Webmaster Central, then you can join any of the several internal Google webmaster forums and submit questions and include links to your site's pages that you are having trouble with or have some kind of genuine inquiry about. Then you'll quickly get some very good back links from right inside the Big G! Now, of course, you can't just make up "problems" or pretend to be confused et al and then attempt to spam the Google Webmaster forums. No. Not an option. None of the above. If you do try that, well, they will figure it out sooner or later and then your site could be seriously downgraded and/or banned from the Google index altogether.
Well, I'm not "in love" with Google, but I really do like the Webmaster Tools sitemaps and the forums that they have recently developed.
The Big G is very quality driven and you've got to be willing to work with them through the webmasters tools system and submit new sitemaps often. Also, if you can somehow change your site to conform more with their quality standards (i.e. bring it closer to PG-13 level) and start runnning sitemaps and use the data acquired from them to improve your google traffic then google will improve your page ranks. If you can't do that, then they will probably not help you very much, in my humble opinion. These days, the Big G wants webmasters to be proactive, trustworthy, forthcoming, honest and open about problems and questions. They don't like secrets, surprises and they don't like sites that don't fit within their quality standards. Yes, the Big G is strict, but most likely, it will get even stricter in the future.
Also, it helps alot to recode ALL of your site's pages and make them validate within the W3C quality standards in both HTML and CSS at some level or another. Also, I have heard several rumors that in the near future, that will become even more important.
yeah, try doing some more back links.. submit your site to different diretories and look for more site and blogs that can link you... gain more traffic.
The only thing you can do is keep working at it, and in time your see results, people spend a lot of time perfecting sites for SEO, not something tat happens over night!
Sometimes it happens more than one night, it takes 2 or more days for some sites but the best way is that monitor your site from time to time and check when Googlebot caches your site.
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