Hi, I am optimizing www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk and I've been doing that for a over 2 months now. I've cleaned up the code nicely, set up proper 301 redirects of error pages that were in Google's index, added new quality content, developed a valuable link resource and got many quality sites link to us.. etc

Can you look at the site and perhaps give some advice on how to proceed.

The problem is that when you type in Google an artist name, ie. Hermann Nitsch we come 9 in results. There are other pages higher than us with rank of 4 or 3 or no rank at all. Our page is ranked 5 and has much more valuable information than those other pages. So...

has much more valuable information than those other pages ... thats your view .. lol

but i think that

www.nitsch.org ( the offical site should be above you )
www.artcyclopedia.com like 1.2 million pages ... how many do you have again
www.tate.org.uk - it's the tate galley

just my veiw..

DaveN

Ok, fair enough, if you wanna look into it,

What about:

http://www.zhurnal.ru/staff/gorny/english/nitsch.htm

http://galeria.origo.hu/nitsch/nitbeng.html

I agree that hermann nitsch's site should be 1 and artcyclopedia as well becasue it such a massive resource, tate modern is actually below us.

So why are we and tate modern (if you'd like) below these two above?

DaveN raises a good point - you've got some legitimate competition.

the sites you're up against don't necessarily have anything on you from an age standpoint (your site's 1996 registration date is a feather in your cap).

when i look at your links, a large number seem to be either internal, or unremarkable. sitewide links from a web designer's site probably aren't giving you any boost.

nicely aged links from unique class C IPs might be benefiting your competitors.

Actually I see your home page with a PR6, but IMO that has very little to do with rankings.

I would suggest that perhaps a starting point on your optimization would be to redo your page titles and take the extraneous text out of them (stuff like in the Martin Kippenberger page take out the

- Paintings - The Saatchi Gallery

from the page title if you want the page to be found on searches for Martin Kippenberger)

Then look at your onpage optimization and remove things like title attributes in H tags, and don't use H1, then H2, followed by an H1.

You might also like to move your menu system to a place later in the code than the first thing after the body.

But of course IMO its going to be the anchor text links you get to your page that will mostly determine its final rankings.

tate is above you in the Uk btw ;)

DaveN