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Hey Denny. Please post your URL.
http://www.online-casino-guide.com
sorry ’bout that:lookaroun
I would guess to say that it could be your links page. recip links got smacked in the Jagger update.
1. Check that you do not have any bad neighbours that you are linking to.
2. Split up your links to about 25 per page.That is where I would start personally.
Oh and Duplicate content is another one, but I didn’t see any obvious dup. on the site…
Sorry guys, I’m a little disappointed in the response to my thread, only 1 reply out of 130 views!?? (Thanks Bart77) Let’s try again, I really do need some help finding out why my traffic has dropped to zero. Poor optimization?
Redirected?
Please dig into http://www.online-casino-guide.com and give me your honest opinions.Sincere thanks in advance:xmas:
no clue , sorry
You said that it’s been suffering since the Florida update. If you research which type of sites were damaged by the Florida update, maybe that would help. Perhaps they all had something in common.
From looking at your source code on the homepage, I would say that you might have too many keywords stuffed into the meta keyword description. I don’t know what is an “acceptable” amount, but at a glance, it looks like there could be too many words right now. More than I would feel comfortable putting there.
The titles of each page should be as descriptive and relevant as possible. I see that you are using “Online Casino Guide” or “Online Poker Guide” in basically every title. Examples: “Online Casino Guide – Home”; “Online Casino Guide – History”. Title tags are very important, and so are H1 tags. I don’t think you are using H1 tags, but you probably should. It also might be good to edit your pages so that your
tags closely match your H1 tags.</p> <p>Example: On your History page, the should be something like “The History of Gambling.” The H1 heading should also be “The History of Gambling.” Meta description and/or meta keywords should contain “the history of gambling.” The content itself should have the phrase, “the history of gambling” sprinkled throughout. Whatever phrase you are hoping people will search for to find a particular page, is what you should use in your title, meta tags, H1 tags, and throughout the page.</p> <p>Also, right now on your History page, you are using an image that says “The History of Gambling.” You should replace this image with H1 text, because the search engine spiders won’t see the image.</p> <p>Hope that helps… I’m no expert, but if this was my site, those are some of the changes I would make. After that, I would start looking for some new link exchange partners. :satisfied What Engineer said
Your site is what I’d call the opposite of SE-friendly.
Tables are a very bad way to make a website. Try to make your site W3.org – friendly (have valid code).
Replacing your tables with appropriate HTML will help you out a lot in both download time and search engine friendliness.
(as an example, my two websites in my signature are W3-friendly with the exception of the affiliate code snipets… And an extra title tag… Woops!)
IMO the first will be to avoid any attempt to dominate “online casino guide” keyword.
A BIG thank you to all that have responded, I truly appreciate it! It appears I do need to hire an SEO company since my opt. skills are about #2 on the skill meter!
Any suggestions on this would be a big help. Anyone have good experience with a company?Any other areas you guys think need work? What about the kinda funky colors that have been used for 6 years? It was done this way to help “branding”, good or bad?
Alphabetize or catagorize the links page(s)? Or does it matter?
Again, THANK YOU.:xmas: :cheers:
SEO companies are absolutely and totally useless when it comes to this industry.
They will make you top ten if you sell honey combs or socket wrenches or pool covers, but in the competitive environment we are in they are totally uselesss.
You will just waste your good money.
Get rid of the tables as much as you can. I too am currently cleaning a site up that is older but full of tables to make it more SEO friendly.
Go here http://www.blackhatseo.com/bad-seo.shtml and make sure you don’t do any of that stuff.
You have over 100 outgoing links on your index page. That is probably penalty land.
“Excessive links – Google recommends having no more than 100 links on any given page. Having more than 100 links won’t result in a ban but it can result in a lower PR.
If you refrain from using any of the above techniques you can avoid a Google penalty. The best way to attain a high PR and placement in the Google listings is to stay on Google’s “good side”. Now that we have the “don’ts” out of the way, let’s get started with the “do’s”!”
quoted from: “xhttp://www.rlrouse.com/prevent-getting-banned.html”Just another guess.
Good Luck!I have been using webceo 5.6 free addition for quite sometime now. I don’t submit nor take the advice given by this program. But it is excellent for finding out where your keywords rank with respect to search engines. The only thing is, on the free version you can only entre five keywords at a time with a 200 search depth.
So what I do is create profiles with five key words. I have 10 profiles and this give me a general idea as to whats going on. The program tells you page and position and stores it. the next time you scan your profiles it will tell you whether you went up or down. I find it very helpful diagnos what I am doing wrong or right.
Also the program can give a link popularity check and backlink check for each page. I have used IBP once webceo blows it away. Webceo does give free optimizing advice as well but it up to you whether or not you use it. Take you time with the program. I hope this helps. Once last thing never pay for programs.
One other thing, this is a speculation over what i have researching latley. This whole idea of cross-linking, link exchanges or whatever you want to call it are numbered. I mean cross-linking in massive amounts like 150. I am keeping my crosslinks at about 50. greek39
1- On the internal links to your pages, use the words in your anchor text that you want to rank for. (e.g., don’t use “Back to Homepage” to link to your homepage unless you want to tank for “back to homepage” in the search engines.)
2- Engineer’s 100% right about having a unique title on every page.
3- I don’t remember which person in the thread mentioned that you’ve got too many affiliate links on your index page, but that’s 100% correct too. Search engine algorithms are using a formula to determine how “high-quality” each page is. More ads = less quality content, at least in the SE’s eyes. Really it’s got more to do with unique content ratio versus link ratio though. You can have more affiliate links on a page with 1000 words of content than you can on a page with 500 words of content.
4- Rather than putting all your casino reviews on one page, make each review longer and give each review its own page. More pages = more opportunities for traffic.
5- I don’t think you need to worry about tables. Lots of people use tables to organize their pages, and they rank just fine.
6- Organize your outbound links pages in such a way that they’re most useful to your visitors. I’d organize them by category, with the links to the most useful sites first. A good rule of them is that if it’s good for the visitor, it’s good for SEO too.
7- Get rid of the link to SEO product at the bottom of your homepage. It dilutes the theme of the page a lot. Keep all your links and content targeted toward the theme of each page.
8- There are good SEO and linkbuilding consultants, but they’re not cheap. Unfortunately, you can’t judge their quality by how much they charge either. If you’re interested in finding someone to give you some more help, private message me, and I’d be happy to refer you to someone who can help.
I hope that helps a bit.
Wow. Quite a program. Thanks for the info about it. I downloaded it and analyzed my site. I found a few problems that need to addressed.
:thumbs WAY up:
JBaldwin, webceo is a very good program but be sure to take your time and really learn it. The best thing is its free!!! greek39
