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philthy

2,840 posts

70 months

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Tuesday 19th June 2007 quote
seandudding said:
Ok, my next site has been finished now. It is at www.floorheating4u.co.uk whats everyones opinion on the underlying code here. The designer will have it fully optimised for google by the end of this week.
Looks good! Just needs some inbound links now.

Scraggles

5,712 posts

54 months

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Wednesday 20th June 2007 quote
if searching for uk stuff, tend to use google.co.uk, admittedly getting a .net domain, but then it is for personal use only, some of the alternatives are in use and others are being sat upon frown

often use meta search engines like dogpile for serious searches as google is one of many it uses smile

since you seem to be a trader, wtf ru using "The registrant is a non-trading individual who has opted to have their address omitted from the WHOIS service." opt out ?

almost as if u had something to hide and tbh, if had that on a trader's site would look for an alternative smile

jagnet

53 posts

32 months

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Wednesday 20th June 2007 quote
From looking at your site, here's a couple of thoughts:

Page titles: place the site name at the end of the title rather than the beginning aside from the homepage. Keywords at the beginning of the title carry more weight.

URLs: use hypens rather than underscores in urls. Google interprets hyphens as word seperators, whereas underscores are considered part of the word itself. Use a 301 redirect from the old pages to the new if you do change them.

Once you've optimised for your main keywords, consider focussing on the Long Tail keywords, which tend to make up approximately 80% of the search hits to your site. www.hittail.com is a useful (free) tool for this, and explains more about the Long Tail concept.

For the future you would do well to consider switching to a CSS layout rather than a table based layout. Given that the site design is relatively simple this shouldn't cost you more than a day's development time at most. It'll massively reduce the amount of html markup in the page which is currently diluting your text content.

seandudding

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494 posts

80 months

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Wednesday 20th June 2007 quote
Scraggles said:
since you seem to be a trader, wtf ru using "The registrant is a non-trading individual who has opted to have their address omitted from the WHOIS service." opt out ?

almost as if u had something to hide and tbh, if had that on a trader's site would look for an alternative smile
Nothing to hide, this is in the middle of been changed, but as I am sure you understand, getting a site to point where it goes live , these little things always get left till post go live.
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