SEO

[PetrolTed]

Any experts in the house?

I'm having trouble getting listed. I've used Google's webmaster tools to set up a sitemap etc, it claims to be indexing a few pages, but it's only showing some obscure choices of pages, on page 2 or 3 of the results.

I don't mind it not picking much up, but I'm surprised it's not showing the home page given that I've effectively created a new word and all references to it are in relation to the .com.

[zac510]

Is this for a classifieds site?
Might this be an issue:
<meta name="ROBOTS" content="NOINDEX, NOFOLLOW" />
?

[PetrolTed]

LOL... a leftover from testing!

At least that's a simple one to solve!

Thank you very much.

I'll get me coat...

[zac510]

Sometimes you just need a 2nd pair of eyes, that's why we QA people exist!

[10JH]

Nice spot!

I was recently reading an interview with an SEO expert, who admitted for months he just couldn't work out the for the life of him why he was wasn't ranking at all. He though he had been blacklisted for something. Then someone pointed out the robots.txt left in!

Good luck with the site, I really like the design of it!

[AlunR]

Might want to clear the test data?

http://www.tedvertiser.com/uk/-/sales-jobs/018

[PetrolTed]

I'll check. I think Paul might actually want a helper.

[Andrew[MG]]

I'd love to get involved in the project! I'm currently trying to go freelance and looking for interesting projects to get involved with. Would work for tea and toast....

[Engineer1]

Cheeky one anyone want to tell me how to improve my rankings for the site on my profile, (it is for my freelance work, and not an advert) it's an honest attempt at free assistance in SEO which really does seem a black art but essential. here

[PetrolTed]

Andrew[MG] said:

I'd love to get involved in the project! I'm currently trying to go freelance and looking for interesting projects to get involved with. Would work for tea and toast....

Sign up and message him then

[zac510]

Engineer1 said:

Cheeky one anyone want to tell me how to improve my rankings for the site on my profile, (it is for my freelance work, and not an advert) it's an honest attempt at free assistance in SEO which really does seem a black art but essential. here

I think you should look at the quality of your site first and then the SEO elements second. A human still has to make the decision to remember you or navigate the site further after all.
I'm hinting nicely at the borrowed stock photo and generally outdated design concepts

[TwistingMyMelon]

Cheeky bugger, you must have print screened that stock photo, with their watermark on!!!!

[evenflow]

iStockPhoto allow you to download a comp of the image (presumably for testing purposes) that still has the watermark as per here.
Might be an idea to purchase the image if you are going to use it "live".

[Engineer1]

nice to see the mate who did the work scimped a bit, I will take the stockphoto thing on board, but never noticed as I have been looking in a resolution of 1024 x 576 on my netbook. Looks like he has even put it in the template with the watermark on, looks like you do get what you pay for.

Edited by Engineer1 on Tuesday 9th March 17:11

[Pigeon]

zac510 said:

Engineer1 said:

Cheeky one anyone want to tell me how to improve my rankings for the site on my profile, (it is for my freelance work, and not an advert) it's an honest attempt at free assistance in SEO which really does seem a black art but essential. here

I think you should look at the quality of your site first and then the SEO elements second. A human still has to make the decision to remember you or navigate the site further after all.
I'm hinting nicely at the borrowed stock photo and generally outdated design concepts

Nothing wrong with the quality/design of that site. It's simple, clear and easy to navigate. Calling it "generally outdated" is pointlessly negative and silly, simple sites without loads of decorative bullst are good.