SEO advice

[jezb]

My website is lost on google!

Any experts care to share any tips to helping it up the rankings?

I know it's not an instant thing but any help appreciated

jb mountain skills rock climbing

There's a glitch with the testimonials on the front page so please ignore that, just emailed my website person as I can't fix it.

[illmonkey]

Surely your 'website person' should be doing SEO?

It is on google, just not going to be very well linked in. I suggest you try and get the URL on a few big sites, maybe write some articles for a forum or similar, and do a linkback to your site. Rankings can be improved by being linked to from big/well established sites.

You have no META keywords, only a description, add them.

You have no consistency with META tags across your pages either.

You use little S3C standards, where are the heading tags?

[selwonk]

Your robots.txt looks a little wonky too:

http://www.jbmountainskills.co.uk/robots.txt

User-agent: *
Disallow:
Disallow: /testimonials.html
Disallow: /1
Disallow: /hillwalking.html
Disallow: /scrambling.html
Disallow: /experience.html

The empty "Disallow:" link might not be causing the problem, but I'd remove it...

[jezb]

illmonkey said:

Surely your 'website person' should be doing SEO?

You use little S3C standards, where are the heading tags?

She is a friend of a friend who was only ever paid (not a lot) to write the basic site.

Thanks for the advice, will have to go and google S3C...

[jezb]

selwonk said:

Your robots.txt looks a little wonky too:

Cheers, changed it.

[Altrezia]

Loads of things to change on that site.

One of the worst cases of using images instead of text I've ever seen. (alt text doesn't count as much, so no excuse).

Generally google just wants good, relevant content to appear for people's search results. Make your content good and relevant (to the key phrases that you want to be found for) and you'll be golden.

[maffski]

Surely the perfect subject for some video blogging isn't it?

[Dave_ST220]

Altrezia said:

Generally google just wants good, relevant content to appear to make money for from people's search results. Make your content good and relevant (to the key phrases that you want to be found for) and you'll be golden.

Too many Matt Cutt's video's

[jezb]

Altrezia said:

Loads of things to change on that site.

One of the worst cases of using images instead of text I've ever seen. (alt text doesn't count as much, so no excuse).

Brutal! I knew I needed to look at changing some of the images into text, bit annoyed they were done that way to start with.

[illmonkey]

jezb said:

illmonkey said:

Surely your 'website person' should be doing SEO?

You use little S3C standards, where are the heading tags?

She is a friend of a friend who was only ever paid (not a lot) to write the basic site.

Thanks for the advice, will have to go and google S3C...

I wrote it in a rush, I meant W3C!

[jezb]

maffski said:

Surely the perfect subject for some video blogging isn't it?

That's on the to do list, have a few ideas

[emmaolivia]

Hi, sometimes google updates hits the sites very badly. My website also got it during the recent update. Have you recovered your website yet? If yes, what steps and parameters one should follow?

[Gone fishing]

A 10 year thread resurrection - top work

[Alex Z]

Gone fishing said:

A 10 year thread resurrection - top work

Not the brightest bot!

[e-honda]

The site is still up 10 years later, which is nice to see
I wonder what this thread will look like in 10 years,
What's google?