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pinfo

03-10-2005, 01:20 AM

cryptblade

03-10-2005, 02:52 AM

Your site is indexed (http://www.google.com/search?q=site:www.exoticindiacrafts.com)

What it isnt doing is ranking. You have no links registering in Google. And your site is so new...you have hardly any inbound links. You wont show up in rankings just like that with... 14 registered inbound links. You need more.

Plus your site...the code could be a problem. Also..what keywords are you trying to optimize for? And you have broken links.

Check out more of the posts in the forums and try to glean more information.

Nacho

03-10-2005, 03:13 AM

You should look at your log files and find out which crawlers have visited your site. Then find out which pages of your site to find out how deep they are going. This should tell you a bigger picture.

Please let us know if we can further help. :)

Michael Martinez

03-10-2005, 03:21 AM

Hello,

My webiste URL is www.exoticindiacrafts.com. Only the indexed page is spidered in Google. This site has a combination of HTML & asp pages.
I have exchanged links with many sites, Put the Meta Tags in all Html pages, have relevant text on the index page. Still the site is not coming in Search Results.
What else I need to Do, please guide me.

You are using graphics where you should have H1 header tags. At the very least your site should be ranking for "Exotic India Crafts" but you have made the expression very unimportant in your text (even reducing the font size in one place).

If you really want to pursue all those keyword phrases, you need to spread them out over multiple pages.

And it doesn't look like you're getting links from much more than reciprocal link and ad sites. Google doesn't appear to be treating those sites favorably.

If you can find a few more sites like my-india.net, that might get you to surface for at least "Exotic India Crafts", but that would be iffy.

Adjusting your on-page content to emphasize the importance of at least that keyword expression will do you the most good at this point.

Hypertext-Matching Analysis: Google's search engine also analyzes page content. However, instead of simply scanning for page-based text (which can be manipulated by site publishers through meta-tags), Google's technology analyzes the full content of a page and factors in fonts, subdivisions and the precise location of each word. Google also analyzes the content of neighboring web pages to ensure the results returned are the most relevant to a user's query.
Source: http://www.google.com/corporate/tech.html

Remember that Google is reporting over 8,000,000,000 sites in its index. None of them are going to start out with much link popularity (assume 1 divided by 8,000,000,000) and even the most popular pages will have only a small value for their link popularity.

An EXACT FIND for "Exotic India Crafts" is returning mostly (if not entirely) pages with links to your site on it:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&q=%2B%22exotic+india+crafts%22

And there are only 15 results.

Just putting in the H1 header tag should get you to the top for that one term. The rest of your targeted expressions will depend on how you optimize for them and how much competition for them there is.

Generally speaking, if fewer than 20,000 sites come up for a keyword search, you can usually get to the top by just using a tightly focused title tag and H1 header tags. You may have to repeat the keyphrase in your body text a couple of times.

pinfo

03-10-2005, 03:43 AM

Hi,

Thanx for the info,
Could you please tell me what is wrong with the code of my website & could you please explain me when U said 'no links registering in Google.'

All these inbound links which I have added in my http://www.exoticindiacrafts.com/links.html are there in Google.

If I need more links, from where can I get quality Inbound Links for my Handicraft site.
Plus my site has few pages in html rest all of them are in asp ( dynamic), I hope that is not a problem as per Google is concerned.

Please guide me through this, it would be really be helpful.

Thanx
-Ben

Your site is indexed (http://www.google.com/search?q=site:www.exoticindiacrafts.com)

What it isnt doing is ranking. You have no links registering in Google. And your site is so new...you have hardly any inbound links. You wont show up in rankings just like that with... 14 registered inbound links. You need more.

Plus your site...the code could be a problem. Also..what keywords are you trying to optimize for? And you have broken links.

Check out more of the posts in the forums and try to glean more information.

Marcia

03-10-2005, 03:45 AM

Welcome to the forums Ben, glad to have you here with us!

cryptblade:
What it isnt doing is ranking. You have no links registering in Google. And your site is so new...you have hardly any inbound links. You wont show up in rankings just like that with... 14 registered inbound links. You need more. New sites are having a hard time ranking at Google - and besides, what you want to do is rank for the *best* keywords for the site, so that's where you need to start - with keyword research - and build out your content focusing on those words and phrases and develop rich content based around as many related keywords as legitimately suit the site.

I've been familiar with your market niche for a while, though primarily with American made handcrafts - in fact, it's in that field that I first got started with websites. What you want to do is develop inbound links that are relevant for your site, and there are a lot of opportunities in that field. Plus, very importantly, work on the site itself to develop keyword rich, relevant, indexable content that is search engine friendly.

For anchor text for your relevant inbound links - vary it somewhat so it's natural. Aside from links that will be for the site name, which is all some will do, and links to interior pages as is appropriate, what you want are links with handmade crafts as your core keyword, with handmade crafts from India and whatever other variations you can think of as anchor text.

The Overture keyword tool is the basic starting point I use for keyword research (the price is right, it's free), and though it's not 100% accurate, you can get a very good idea of the relative importance of different keyword phrases. That's where to start, and then use meaningful, accurate text including the appropriate words for individual pages in page text, page titles, meta tags, H1, H2, and H3 tags, and in the internal navigation on your site.

Don't get discouraged - it takes a while for a new site. Work on quality inbound links and directory listings, study up on conservative basic optimization, give it time with Google and try to start out aiming for some good Yahoo listings and have patience with Google. Yahoo is faster to get good rankings for, and basic on-page optimization works very well with just a minimum of relevant links to the site.

Michael Martinez

03-10-2005, 09:32 AM

All these inbound links which I have added in my http://www.exoticindiacrafts.com/links.html are there in Google.

If I need more links, from where can I get quality Inbound Links for my Handicraft site.

You don't need more links. Right now, your inbound links are ranking above your own site.

Get your H1 header tags into place and your site should start showing for at least "Exotic India Crafts". For other keyword phrase, you'll have to use other pages. Getting more links to those pages will help.

pinfo

03-12-2005, 02:38 AM

Carlos Chacón

03-12-2005, 03:06 PM

Hi Ben,

Just two suggestions:

-Do not forget to optimized your images
-Do not use to many "meta" keywords.

I visited your Web site and it looks very good in SEO terms.
Now, check in Yahoo constantly and with Google....patience.

;)

pinfo

03-16-2005, 06:51 AM

Hello,

My webiste 'www.exoticindiacrafts.com' is not spidered in Google.

Only the index page is there. I have done many changes & updated the site BUT STILL.........
This site has a combination of HTML & asp pages.

I just wanted to enquire, whether that might be creating some problem for Google.

inorder to get all my HTML pages spidered what to Do?

What else I need to Do ?????? .

Thanx
-Ben

kmartino

03-16-2005, 10:13 AM

My site is not being indexed.
http://www.google.com/search?q=site:www.phillyfuture.org

It has many sites pointing to it:
http://www.alltheweb.com/search?cat=web&cs=iso88591&q=link%3Awww.phillyfuture.org&rys=0&_sb_lang=pref

Many of which have high page ranks.

It has been on the web (at its current address) for over a year now.

And still no googlebot visiting my page.

If anyone can help - it would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

Michael Martinez

03-16-2005, 01:24 PM

Hi Michael,

Thanx for the info, but if you check my site
www.exoticindiacrafts.com

I have placed the text in Header Tags at many places. Still after waiting for weeks only my index page is there in Google.

Your problem is that you are using Javascript to embed text in the page. Google will not crawl the Javascript to find the text.

You need to fix the H1 header tags. Just put the text between the tags. If you are altering the appearance of your headers, use an off-page CSS file to handle that.

pinfo

03-23-2005, 01:11 AM

Hi,

I have removed the javascript from my page which was being used to embed text, I have made a site map page & other links at the bottom of the index page.

Now recently Google just re crawled my index page & my links page. That it

Why not rest pages, where my products are there.

I have waited quite long, please please tell me is there something else I need to do in the Code or meta tags or Text .. anything.

Please give your valuable feedback.

Thanx
-Ben

composer

03-24-2005, 02:00 AM

Your 19 page (17 is showing) indexed in google.

http://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Ahttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.exoticindiacrafts .com

and yes, not in top 100 (189.) with : exotic india crafts
19. page!

normally, this is impossible.

You make something wrong I thing...

for example (and example only. Not a complete list):
keyword and descriptions META tags huge. (penalizeable)
H1 tags very very long. (penalizeable)
Bunch of non relative words. (penalizeable)
Imagemaps is bad idea...

And much more...

Friendly Advice:
Don't modify your site yourself is You dont know what you make. :eek:
ask for professional help... ;)

pinfo

03-30-2005, 07:05 AM

pinfo

03-30-2005, 07:12 AM

Hi,

I have read your valuable inputs regarding my website.
I would really really be obliged if you could help me, rank my website properly in Google.

I am suffering heavily.
The site is coming with exotic india crafts on the 160 Page.
No where with Sculptures, Textiles, Silver Sterling Jewelry, Glass Handicrafts Stain Glass Paintings, Brass Artifacts, brass bronze handicrafts and many many more.

It is not coming with any of my products.

I hope you understand my problem & help me getting my way through Google.

Thanx
-Ben

You are using graphics where you should have H1 header tags. At the very least your site should be ranking for "Exotic India Crafts" but you have made the expression very unimportant in your text (even reducing the font size in one place).

If you really want to pursue all those keyword phrases, you need to spread them out over multiple pages.

And it doesn't look like you're getting links from much more than reciprocal link and ad sites. Google doesn't appear to be treating those sites favorably.

If you can find a few more sites like my-india.net, that might get you to surface for at least "Exotic India Crafts", but that would be iffy.

Adjusting your on-page content to emphasize the importance of at least that keyword expression will do you the most good at this point.

Source: http://www.google.com/corporate/tech.html

Remember that Google is reporting over 8,000,000,000 sites in its index. None of them are going to start out with much link popularity (assume 1 divided by 8,000,000,000) and even the most popular pages will have only a small value for their link popularity.

An EXACT FIND for "Exotic India Crafts" is returning mostly (if not entirely) pages with links to your site on it:

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&safe=off&q=%2B%22exotic+india+crafts%22

And there are only 15 results.

Just putting in the H1 header tag should get you to the top for that one term. The rest of your targeted expressions will depend on how you optimize for them and how much competition for them there is.

Generally speaking, if fewer than 20,000 sites come up for a keyword search, you can usually get to the top by just using a tightly focused title tag and H1 header tags. You may have to repeat the keyphrase in your body text a couple of times.

Andy1969

04-07-2005, 05:24 AM

After two long months Google finally started to index one of my new sites (phew), MSN and Yahoo were happy munching away at the site but good old G was just checking my home page....everyday but nothing else!!

What I had done though, for a month before the site officially launched I put a home page up with a few keywords and Company / site name, etc. This Google and Yahoo happily found. Once the new site came online, Google indexed the first page quite happily but Yahoo took a little longer. MSN was the first of the three to get his (her) teeth into the site, Yahoo did about two weeks ago (two weeks after site had gone live) and Google only yesterday!! Just over 1 month of the full site becoming available...so my advice...be patient..it happens....eventually ;)