What a difference a Google makes!

[stlewis]

From a visit score of 50-90 a day with odd peaks of 200, at long last I am being spidered by Google properly - and the visits have more than trebled with good visit periods too - many over 5 minutes. The various Google sites delivered 200 visits in just 72 hours. I just hope they keep on coming!

A demonstration of the importance of getting things right!

www.bricksandbrass.co.uk

[stlewis]

From a visit score of 50-90 a day with odd peaks of 200, at long last I am being spidered by Google properly - and the visits have more than trebled with good visit periods too - many over 5 minutes. The various Google sites delivered 200 visits in just 72 hours. I just hope they keep on coming!

A demonstration of the importance of getting things right!

www.bricksandbrass.co.uk

[elmo_tfc2]

Did you go directly through google or did you use another method? such as dmoz.com

illimite Design

[stlewis]

which have delivered relatively few visits. By the way, these were 'important' search engines.

I think it is Google not Dmoz doing its stuff.

www.bricksandbrass.co.uk

[Turan]

Do you use any analysis tools to help you with your web page?

I notice that you have home and homes, and house and houses in your keywords.

I used to use a web-site garuage (on-line) tool. But it has stopped now. It flagged that some engines would see home and homes as an attempt to duplicate words and would caution against it.

I'd love to find a tool like the one that used to be available.

Also, tools aside - do you have any other tips for engine submission?

Turan

[stlewis]

Turan

I have played with one or two tools but I've tried hard to take on board comments from places eg http://spider-food.net/ . I do try to add meta tags for each page with the content customised for each page.

I also do a fair bit of sending press releases and making journalist contacts - helping them out as much as I can. This is, after 12 months, beginning to pay off but the visits blip I get does not seem to have a dramatic long-term effect!

www.bricksandbrass.co.uk

[Jen Worden]

You might want to try MetaMedic [http://www.northernwebs.com/set/setsimjr.html] (scroll waaaay down to the bottom). It'll rank your meta tags and let you know how you're doing - word duplication wise as well as getting the most bang for your meta word/description buck. I believe they also have a paying service as well.

cfn ... Jen

Jen Worden
Web Developer
www.meadoworks.com

[Turan]

Ran it on my site and it said I only have 19% use of keywords and could add more.

Problem is it also says that my relavency is poor! This is because I don't have a lot of text, so don't use much repatition!

Is there any way around that?

I'm doing my best with some pages to repeat a word seeral times!

I ran bricks-and-brass and (as I remembered the other tool used to do with mine) it does indicate you have too much keyword repatition.

Turan

[Turan]

I hate to sound too lazy, but is there a tool that lists all the words on your page and then ranks them?

eg:

the 20
web 10
design 8
home 5
page 5
is 5
fun 3

I read somewhere that engines will look at names on images and alt text on images, and will strip out _'s hence I name my images web_design_button and the alt tag web_design_link. Is this true?

I'll still do it as it reads well, but has anyone heard this?

Turan

[pduggan]

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