unclesammy,
I have taken a look at your site, and I have a number of suggestions
that should help you improve your search rankings.
First, let's try running your site http://www.uscuties.com through the
Search Engine Spider Simulator tools at:
http://www.searchengineworld.com/cgi-bin/sim_spider.cgi
The simulator shows that:
- your page title is "New Page 2"
- your meta description has "No description available"
- your meta keywords are empty
Right now the html source code for your front page looks like this:
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
charset=windows-1252">
<meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft FrontPage 4.0">
<meta name="ProgId" content="FrontPage.Editor.Document">
<title>New Page 2</title>
</head>
...
1) Your page title will frequently show up in the excerpts on Search
Results pages, such as Google. You will want to make it descriptive
and interesting. Change your page title from "New Page 2" to something
like "U.S. Cuties - Gorgeous All-American Girls in Red, White, and
Blue", or whatever you want to use. The general consensus is that
Google seems to view shorter titles (but not TOO short) more favorably
than titles that are really long (several lines).
2) Because webmasters tried to "stack" meta descriptions and meta
keywords to obtain more favorable search rankings, some Search
Engines, including Google, no longer look at these tags. However,
other Search Engines still use these tags for indexing, so you will
want to use them. Change your meta description to something like "U.S.
Cuties - Gorgeous All-American Girls decked out in Red, White, and
Blue. See America's most beautiful women show their patriotism."
3) Insert meta keywords that describe your site. Be sure to use both
singular, plural, abbreviated, and punctuated variants of your
keywords, because some Search Engines cannot tell that one such word
is related to the other. For example, you might use keywords "US,
U.S., America, American, All-American, America's, cute, cutie, cuties,
gorgeous, beautiful, lovely, girl, girls, woman, women, babe, babes,
model, models, doll, dolls, red, white, blue, flag, flags, patriot,
patriots, patriotic, patriotism".
The above changes should make your front page html source code look
something like this:
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;
charset=windows-1252">
<meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft FrontPage 4.0">
<meta name="ProgId" content="FrontPage.Editor.Document">
<meta name="description" content="U.S. Cuties - Gorgeous
All-American Girls decked out in Red, White, and Blue. See America's
most beautiful women show their patriotism.">
<meta name="keywords" content="US, U.S., America, American,
All-American, America's, cute, cutie, cuties, beauty, beauties,
beautiful, gorgeous, lovely, girl, girls, woman, women, babe, babes,
model, models, doll, dolls, red, white, blue, flag, flags, patriot,
patriots, patriotic, patriotism">
<title>U.S. Cuties - Gorgeous All-American Girls in Red, White,
and Blue</title>
</head>
...
4) Now, for Search Engines like Google that ignore those meta tags,
you need to insert some text on your front page that includes your
meta keywords. Right now, your front page is just one big graphic.
Even though that graphic contains words, Search Engines can't read
those words; they just see that you have a picture on your front page
and no other text. So below that graphic, you will want to add a
couple of paragraphs -- consisting of complete sentences -- using the
keywords you have chosen, and giving a nice description of the content
of your website.
5) The Spider Simulator says only one link was spidered, your billing
engine:
http://uscuties.com/ccbill
Furthermore, if you use Google's link functions with your site name
(enter link:www.uscuties.com in the Search box on the Google front
page at ://www.google.com , you will see that Google does not show
any linking pages either.
However, if you enter your site name, "www.uscuties.com" (including
the quotes) in the Search box on the Google front page at
://www.google.com , you will see that Google shows several pages
which include your site URL:
www.uscuties.com
uscuties.com
uscuties.com/main.htm
www.ivymodel.com/links.asp
ivymodel.com/links.asp
www.onemodelplace.com/model_list.cfm?ID=3282
www.onemodelplace.com/lydiafuentes
www.onemodelplace.com/model_list.cfm/ID/13330
babes.net/detail.asp?ID=2208
www.babes.net/detail.asp?ID=2208
uscuties.com/1.htm
uscuties.com/fineart.htm
uscuties.com/ccbill
www.onemodelplace.com/model_list.cfm/id/10196
This is good, because the onemodelplace, babes.net, and ivymodel pages
are external sites pointing back to your site; since Google is
indexing them, it will most likely index your site as well. In
addition, these sites have a "Page Rank" of 5/10, which is fairly
decent, and can help your own site's ranking (more about this later).
6) One of the best ways to get the Search Engines to index your site
frequently is to update the pages frequently. The Search Engines check
the "Last Modified Date" on the current page with the "Last Modified
Date" of that same page the last time they indexed it. If the Search
Engines notice that your pages get updated frequently, they will
usually crawl your pages more often. So even if you don't have any
changes to your pages, you should fairly frequently save new copies of
them to your server, to update the "Last Modified Date" on them. The
best way to do this is to put "This page last updated on mm/dd/yyyy"
in a small font at the bottom of each page. When it's time to update
your pages, change this date to the current date, and save the new
version of the page back on your server.
7) The Google Search Engine uses its "Page Rank" system to assign a
relevancy rating to your page; this will influence the frequency with
which Google will index it, and how high it will appear in the Search
Results pages. To understand this better, see Phil Craven's article
"Google's PageRank and how to make the most of it" at:
http://webworkshop.net/pagerank.html
To find out the Page Rank of any given webpage, you can use the Google
toolbar, which is available for download at:
http://toolbar.google.com
8) Once you have made the above recommended changes to your website,
run it through the Search Engine Spider Simulator tools again at:
http://www.searchengineworld.com/cgi-bin/sim_spider.cgi
You should see your changes show in the site evaluation results.
9) Once you have made the above recommended changes to your website,
resubmit it to the major Search Engines. Be sure to follow their
instructions; for instance, some Engines request that you submit only
your top-level URL (www.uscuties.com) rather than every one of your
pages. Failure to follow the instructions can result in lowered
rankings or even in being blacklisted from a Search Engine.
Google:
://www.google.com/addurl.html
DMOZ (Directory Mozilla/Open Directory Project):
http://dmoz.org/add.html
AOL:
http://search.aol.com/add.adp
HotBot:
http://ldbreg.lycos.com/cgi-bin/mayaLogin?m_PR=29&m_CBURL=http://insite.lycos.com/searchservices/lite?step1.asp
AllTheWeb:
http://www.alltheweb.com/add_url.php
AltaVista:
http://addurl.altavista.com/addurl/new
Zeal (LookSmart/MSN free submission w/free registration)
http://www.zeal.com/users/register.jhtml
10) I strongly recommend that you do NOT subscribe to either free or
fee-based submit-a-site companies or Search Engine Optimization
Services. There are less than a dozen really popular search engines
which are used by the majority of web surfers. Submit-a-site services
will:
a) submit you to a bunch of small search engines, which will likely
not improve your website hits significantly, and
b) by using methods like repetitive submission and link farms, quite
possibly get your site banned from Google and other major Search
Engines which pay attention to such things. For instance, one of the
SEOs notorious for getting sites banned from Google is Web Position
Gold. Once a site is banned from a Search Engine, it may be possible
to get it reinstated, but it will be a VERY difficult and
time-consuming process.
11) Once you implement all these suggestions and resubmit your site,
wait 2 months and see how your site is doing on the Search Engines. If
you still aren't happy, you may want to consider Fee-based or
Pay-per-click Search Engine services. However, there is much debate
among webmasters as to how worthwhile this is, depending on the Search
Engine (see link to the discussion forums at JimWorld below).
The "Google Information for Webmasters" Help Page may contain some
really helpful information for you:
://www.google.com/webmasters
You may also find helpful information on the
"Group:google.public.support.general" user discussion site at:
http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&group=google.public.support.general
SearchEngineWorld has an excellent resource page for assistance on
making your website user-friendly to Google:
http://www.searchengineworld.com/spiders/google_faq.htm
The Search Engine Forums at JimWorld are an excellent resource for
helpful information not only on Google's Search Engine, but numerous
other Search Engines as well:
http://www.searchengineforums.com/bin/Ultimate.cgi
Search Strategy: personal knowledge
Before Rating my Answer, if you have questions, please post a Request
for Clarification, and I will be glad to see what I can do for you.
I hope this Answer provides you with exactly what you needed!
Regards,
aceresearcher |
Request for Answer Clarification by
unclesammy-ga
on
25 Dec 2002 09:45 PST
hey, ace, seems you already deserve a good rating, in what you have
already given me. The front page was put up temporarily for two
reasons:
1). Just to see if someone would enter(pay) to see the site, out of
pure curiosity of the unknown, and
2). Since the site is in constant updating and reconstructing, I
didn't really want any visitors, at least not until after today. Call
me peculiar, but I didn't think X-mas day is a day people should be
lookin at 'cuties', nude or otherwise.
Typically, though, the whole site is not nude, only the 'rated' area.
The pages of uscuties.com that are the gist of the site are:
uscuties.com/main.htm
uscuties.com/covergirl.htm and
uscuties.com/nam.htm (short for nude arts models)
Since the 'One Model Place Photographer' listing is already holding a
place in the searches for 'cuties', I feel/felt it is a good place to
begin, in regards to gaining better activity to /for the site. As you
can see, 'Black Cuties.com' holds first place, and my sentiments are
that U.S. CUTIES (& Americans Beauties should be 1 rank above that,
since it makes no preference to color or race, only geographical model
location, which as we already know, the U.S. is the chief player on
the internet.
For the time being, concentrating on OMP is most beneficial, as it
helps to gain respect within the OMP site and the models who might
consider becoming affiliated with USC. Visitors from the 'cuties'
search will see there is a 'uscuties.com', making the connection,
becoming curious, and hence, further investigate, by going to the
actual site. It also offers a 'pre' insight, into the 'developer' of
the site, something other pay sites don't really do.
Ace, what my real needs are is someone who could act in part as a
'marketing consultant', and, so far, I feel you have been worth far
more than 20 bucks. Perhaps we could do business more on a one on one
basis, compensating more fairly for services rendered. As is, I was
wondering how I might 'tip' you, just for time and helpfulness to
date.
I am sure, by the end of our 'communications', in regards to just this
one posted question, I will want to do so.
Again, though, the updating of my OMP status, on the 'cuties' search,
is my greater need.
Your 'Uncle Sammy'
P.S. Merry Christmas, if it's not too late. :)
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