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@playcasino1 169377 wrote:
1. Why is it that only a few pages on the site are being indexed by google? I typed in the url of a few pages and it cannot be found by google.
[/quote]This is just how the search engines work
It will take some time for them to completely index your site. Typically the bot comes, indexes a page or 2, then waits awhile. Eventually it will be fully indexed. You can try to get some deep links (to inner pages) and get those indexed as well, but it won’t help much. I just wait for Google to fully index my new sites.@playcasino1 169377 wrote:
2. The site does take time to load. Is it because of the flash logo OR is it the scrolling message on each page? Or maybe im looking too deep, it’s fine the way it loads? Pls let me know if it loads OK for you
[/quote]It loads a little slow, but not too bad. I think it more has to do with the banners and the progressive tickers. Those can take time to load depending upon how busy the servers are. Still, fairly fast-loading for me.
@playcasino1 169377 wrote:
3. SEO – is there a company i can use ? or should I do this myself. I have done the SEO myself thus far. Is it OK?
[/quote]Learn to do this yourself. Most of these ‘companies’ are crap. I can do a better job myself than 90% of them and I am not that great.
Meta – Your keywords and description tags are ‘stuffed’ and Google is going to think your site is spam based upon that alone. Get rid of 95% of that.
Bold – Way too much bold text. The search engines are not going to know what the home page is supposed to be geared towards. This is the gateway to your site, so make sure the bold actually relates to 1-3 topics (not 20).
Header Tags – You have none. Make sure you implement
,
,
according to what is most important on your site (h1 being most important for this page)
Image Alts – did ok with those, but check your alts to make sure they really match what the image portrays
Titles in a tag – You have no titles in your links. Add those
@playcasino1 169377 wrote:
4. Links Exchange – As im new, not many older sites (high PR) are willing to swap links. How will I get my PR up if i cannot link to high PR sites? Having said this, if you are interested in a link exchange, pls PM me.
You just have to work on it
Even if you start off by linking through directory sites, you are still getting links. Everyone has a different model including paying for links, using directories, using forum signatures, etc… Be creative.
I like this site, personally it provides alot of information that I would want as a player looking for a new place to hit.
It seems to load fine for me although there is a short but more than acceptable load time. Only thing that you could do is reduce the image weight on the home page. But in doing that you compromise the desired look and coolness.
The headings for each main section can be done using CSS with the headers in actual text rather than images, this will take the image weight down a little.
Its tabbed well and easy to navigate so players wont have any issues there.
Overall rating = Eyecandylicious
Inspecting your html-code: put all javascript and CSS files into a separate file, and just call them in the
section of your pages. This way browsers will cache it and don’t want to try to load them with every page – moreover if they are same at every page. This way your real content will be “closer” to the beginning of the page -> you make crawling for search engines much easier.At this time your real content (the
of your pages) can be found after 1/3 of the code. That doesn’t help for sure.For checking your indexed pages in Google you need to type site:http://www.playcasino.co.za/ into Google’s search box. For me it shows 39 pages atm.
If you want to learn SEO I recommend visiting the following websites:
– http://www.highrankings.com/forum/ (awesome forum with very helpful people)
– http://www.seomoz.org/ (great articles, awesome SEO tools)
– http://www.seochat.com/ (good articles)Hope this helps
Thank you very much kwblue!! I owe you a beer
kwblue;169379 wrote:This is just how the search engines work It will take some time for them to completely index your site. Typically the bot comes, indexes a page or 2, then waits awhile. Eventually it will be fully indexed. You can try to get some deep links (to inner pages) and get those indexed as well, but it won’t help much. I just wait for Google to fully index my new sites.Ok, I guess i have to wait then. Thanks!
kwblue;169379 wrote:It loads a little slow, but not too bad. I think it more has to do with the banners and the progressive tickers. Those can take time to load depending upon how busy the servers are. Still, fairly fast-loading for me.Perfect, it must be me. You are correct about the progressives as when they are down for some reason, then site takes ages to load
kwblue;169379 wrote:Learn to do this yourself. Most of these ‘companies’ are crap. I can do a better job myself than 90% of them and I am not that great.understood – can be a bit painful though … will try
kwblue;169379 wrote:Meta – Your keywords and description tags are ‘stuffed’ and Google is going to think your site is spam based upon that alone. Get rid of 95% of that.What exactly – do I have too many keywords? Is there a reasonable number of keywords one should have? Also, why do u say the description is stuffed? please explain
kwblue;169379 wrote:Bold – Way too much bold text. The search engines are not going to know what the home page is supposed to be geared towards. This is the gateway to your site, so make sure the bold actually relates to 1-3 topics (not 20).I hear you and will get this changed. Thanks!
kwblue;169379 wrote:Header Tags – You have none. Make sure you implement,
,
according to what is most important on your site (h1 being most important for this page)
Fine, understood.
kwblue;169379 wrote:Image Alts – did ok with those, but check your alts to make sure they really match what the image portrayskwblue;169379 wrote:Titles in a tag – You have no titles in your links. Add thoseUnderstood
kwblue;169379 wrote:You just have to work on it Even if you start off by linking through directory sites, you are still getting links. Everyone has a different model including paying for links, using directories, using forum signatures, etc… Be creative.Ok, but how long does it take before u see your PR moving up a notch.And does it harm sites that have PR1+ to link to a site that has no PR?
Thanks Martin!!
The sooner I get the SEO right, the sooner you can expect some serious traffic :wink-wink
Thanks Sipka – We will look to make the changes you suggest.
Yeah, i have looked at a couple of those site you mention, however most of the terminology is over my headBTW : The suggestions you and kwblue made, are these the basics in SEO ? or am I clueless to SEO looking at my site:Cry:
I owe you a beer too.sipka;169386 wrote:Inspecting your html-code: put all javascript and CSS files into a separate file, and just call them in the section of your pages. This way browsers will cache it and don’t want to try to load them with every page – moreover if they are same at every page. This way your real content will be “closer” to the beginning of the page -> you make crawling for search engines much easier.At this time your real content (the
of your pages) can be found after 1/3 of the code. That doesn’t help for sure.For checking your indexed pages in Google you need to type site:http://www.playcasino.co.za/ into Google’s search box. For me it shows 39 pages atm.
If you want to learn SEO I recommend visiting the following websites:
– http://www.highrankings.com/forum/ (awesome forum with very helpful people)
– http://www.seomoz.org/ (great articles, awesome SEO tools)
– http://www.seochat.com/ (good articles)Hope this helps
@playcasino1 169443 wrote:
BTW : The suggestions you and kwblue made, are these the basics in SEO ? or am I clueless to SEO looking at my site:Cry:
I owe you a beer too.I would start my SEO adventures here:
http://www.seomoz.org/article/beginners-guide-to-search-engine-optimizationAlso: http://www.highrankings.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=833
This thread is for complete newbies with loads of links to great SEo articles. Don’t afraid to ask in this forum, the people there are same helpful as the guys here at CAP, and usually you will get advice in some minutesAnd from here, you will get lots of lots of lots of other links to go on your journey
