[thelist] Metatags - we are not ranked anywhere in the search engines - PLEASE HELP!
Christian Heilmann
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Thu Feb 24 02:07:20 CST 2005
Sylvia Braunstein wrote:
>Since 2000 approximately, why?
>What is a paid listing?
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>www.rugged.com is our site and the one the manager is complaining about.
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>These words appear on each page, both in the contents and metatags.
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>How do I resolve this problem?
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Meta tags won't help you, as most search engines don't care about them
any longer. The problem of your site is its structure.
Search engine bots are like users of assistive technology like screen
readers and text browsers - they need text, and structure.
Your site as it stands now is a big gunk of tagsoup, and it is very hard
to find any text content high up in the document tree. Furthermore,
there are no headers whatsoever, something that search engines love.
http://www.delorie.com/web/lynxview.cgi?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.rugged.com
shows a lot of useless information before the content.
You can structure your document to have the content first and then the
navigation and still have the same visual display with CSS or a proper
table structure:
http://www.onlinetools.org/articles/showyourcontent_all.php
There are many tricks you can use, most are listed here:
http://www.evolt.org/practicalseo/
http://www.evolt.org/dontsubmittose/
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