Am I being penalized by google or what?

[Red banana]

I have been researching seo for ages now and have done everything I can think of (and lots of tests) to get my site in the top 5 positions in google.Some have worked, some have'nt and some have worked breifly and then the pages have dissapeared.

I would be really grateful if anyone could tell me if I am employing any bad tactics on my site www.funky-wellington-boots.co.uk. If I am not, then I would appreciate any advice or if anyone knows a good (and good value!!)company to promote me.

[Mel]

I can't see that you are doing anything real bad, but IMO you have failed to do a lot of good things.

You could have used a search engine friendly dynamic menu and used some keywords as links in it.
You could write a better page title and description
You could have used page headers
You could have sourced more anchor text links for your site
You could have bought a domain name with a .co.uk extension and got your own web hosting located in the UK.

And probably some more, but you get the idea.


If you want to promote your site properly then you need to do more research or get a professional to help you out.

[Marcia]

First thing is to take care of this. Apparently the domain name is "pointed" to the site page, and it's giving a 302 temporary direct server header

Parameters:
URL = http://www.funky-wellington-boots.co.uk
UAG = Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)
AEN =
FMT = AUTO
REQ = GET
Sending request:
GET / HTTP/1.0
Host: www.funky-wellington-boots.co.uk
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1)

• Finding host IP address...
• Finding TCP protocol...
• Binding to local socket...
• Connecting to host...
• Sending request...
• Receiving response...

Total bytes received = 225
Elapsed time so far: 0 seconds
Header (Length = 225):
HTTP/1.1·302·Found(CR)
(LF)
Date:·Fri,·24·Dec·2004·05:33:32·GMT(CR)
(LF)
Server:·Apache/1.3.31·(Unix)·PHP/4.3.9(CR)
(LF)
X-Powered-By:·PHP/4.3.9(CR)
(LF)
Location:·http://www.crystalclearskin.com/wellywebsite/(CR)
(LF)
Connection:·close(CR)
(LF)
Content-Type:·text/html(CR)
(LF)
(CR)
(LF)

Content (Length = 0):
Done

Temporary redirect is not the way to get a domain into the index and ranking. Mel's right, it needs a regular host with the site located on the domain name. If not possible, a 301 is a less serious difficulty but still presents issues - but registrars generally don't do that.

[Mel]

Sure is Marcia and when you spider the page you get links like this:

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[Red banana]

There is certainly a lot I don't know about this! Is anyone interested in sorting out my website? Or can you recomend anyone? I have just paid google a ridiculous amount of money for my Christmas sales and I am desperatley seeking a company or individual to optomize me for google and yahoo top 5 or top 10 placements.
Thanks again for the tips so far.