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Subject: Where is the site?
Category: Business and Money
Asked by: marinremodeling-ga
List Price: $40.00

Posted: 17 Feb 2003 11:03 PST
Expires: 19 Mar 2003 11:03 PST
Question ID: 162597

How do I get my site in the top positions for Marin Remodeling?  My
Company is the Marin Remodeling Company, www.MarinRemodeling.com. Can
you submit for the positioning?

Thank you

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Subject: Re: Where is the site?
Answered By: journalist-ga on 17 Feb 2003 11:36 PST

Greetings Marin Remodeling: I have just returned from your site and viewed part of the source code below: <html> <head> <!-- www.MarinRemodeling.com, The Marin Remodeling Company, Construction Remodeling, Remodeling Marin County Real Estate, Marin Remodeling Company, Marin Remodeling --> <title>www.MarinRemodeling.Com, the Marin Remodeling Company, Construction Remodeling, Marin Remodeling, Marin Remodeling</title> <meta HTTP-EQUIV=expires CONTENT=0> <meta HTTP-EQUIV=Content-type CONTENT=text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1> <meta NAME=description CONTENT=Specializing in Marin County Remodeling, Construction, Addtions, Bath rooms, Kitchens, Design, House raising, Carpentry, and Marin. The Marin Remodeling Company helping to remodel and improve the home of your dreams.> <meta NAME=keywords CONTENT=Specializing in Remodeling Marin County Real Estate, Construction Remodeling, Addtions Remodeling, Bath rooms Remodeling, Kitchens Remodeling, Design Remodeling, House raising Remodeling, Carpentry Remodeling, Remodeling Homes, Remodeling Properties, Remodeling Realtor, Remodeling for Real Estate Agents, Remodeling, Construction, Addtions, Bath rooms, Kitchens, Design, House raising, Carpentry, Remodeling in Marin, remodeling sales, buyer broker, buyers agent, Remodeling Real Estate, multiple listing service, condo remodeling, condo conversion remodeling, townhouse remodeling, 1031 tax exchange, prequalification, mortgage loans, home locator, remodeling investment homes, remodeling investment properties, relocation specialist, residential remodeling, real remodeling, estate remodeling, residential remodeling, remodeling houses, remodeling homes, Remodeling, estate homes, fine homes, remodeling multi-million dollar estate homes, remodeling multi-million dollar estates, remodeling prior to foreclosure, reo, repo, bank repo, short sales, fixer, property remodeling, remodeling for a Realtor, remodeling for Realtors, for sale, sale, buy, buyers, remodeling condominiums, remodeling townhomes, remodeling a single family residence, Remodelnig view homes, duplex remodeling, remodeling duplexes, split levels remodeling, ranch style homes that need remodeling, single story homes that need remodeling, two story homes that need remodeling, remodeling for RV access, remodeling pool homes, remodeling for a golf course view, remodeling ocean view homes, remodeling homes with city lights view, remodeling in a nice neighborhood> <meta NAME=ROBOTS CONTENT=ALL> <meta NAME=DC.Title CONTENT=Marin Remodeling, Construction Remodeling, Remodeling Marin County Real Estate, Marin Remodeling> <meta NAME=DC.Creator CONTENT=AdvancedAccess> <meta NAME=DC.Subject CONTENT=Remodeling Marin County Real Estate, Construction Remodeling, Remodeling Marin Homes and houses, Marin Remodeling> <meta NAME=DC.Description CONTENT=Specializing in Remodeling Marin County Homes and houses, Construction, Addtions, Bath rooms, Kitchens, Design, House raising, Carpentry, and Marin. Marin Remodeling helping to Remodel and improve the home of your dreams.> <meta NAME=DC.Publisher CONTENT=frankdarling.com> <meta NAME=DC.Language SCHEME=RFC1766 CONTENT=EN> <meta NAME=DC.Coverage.PlaceName CONTENT=NV> <!-- Marin Remodeling Company, Construction Remodeling, Marin County Remodeling, Marin Remodeling --> Your keywords seem strong but you have used the word "remodeling" too heavily - over 70 times. Also, the word "realtor" is used too often. Usually, three times in the keywords is plenty. For instance, you can simply re-enter the keywords to look like this: Remodeling Marin County Real Estate, Construction, Addtions, Bath rooms, Kitchens, Design, House raising, Carpentry, Remodeling Homes, Remodeling Properties, Remodeling for Real Estate Agents, sales, buyer broker, buyers agent, multiple listing service, condo, condo conversion, townhouse, 1031 tax exchange, prequalification, mortgage loans, home locator, investment homes, investment properties, relocation specialist, residential, estate remodeling, houses, remodeling homes, multi-million dollar estate homes, foreclosure, reo, repo, bank repo, short sales, fixer, property, buy, buyers, condominiums, townhomes, single family residence, view homes, duplex, duplexes, split levels, ranch style, single story homes, two story homes, RV access, pool homes, golf course view, ocean view homes, city lights view, nice neighborhood And you might add "sunrooms, poolrooms, basements" and other rooms in a home. Also, include landscaping if your company offers the service. Then, on your page, your keyword text is in graphic form which a search engine spider cannot read - it reads the text, not the picture. You are on the first page of "Marin Remodeling" search results but not with your site address: see ://www.google.com/search?hl=en&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=marin+remodeling You need to use a mouseover text box with your graphics with the same word in in the box or write a short text paragraph that includes your major keywords. A search engine spider may see all the keywords in the code but then doesn't see them on the page itself and ignores the page in the crawl. Also, your header on the page looks like this in my browser: Marin Remodelin g I will do further experimentation with the site and query to webmasters I know to glean their suggestions, too. In the meantime, the site at http://www.mimech.com/web-search/ is a great place to understand site optimization. Their optimization tips are located at http://mimech.com/search-engines/site-optimization.asp I appreciate your patience in waiting until all information is collected from emails before rating my answer. SEARCH STRATEGY: Marin Remodeling web position site promotion guide
Clarification of Answer by journalist-ga on 19 Feb 2003 08:57 PST I have received replies from my emails and I wanted to impart the information and give you some other links to peruse. The article at http://216.239.51.100/search?q=cache:VlkU5OekNyoC:tstweb.ecob.iup.edu/Fall%25202002/Student%2520Research%2520Papers/web%2520design%2520research%2520paper.doc+%22keyword+stuffing%22+google+%22invisible+keywords%22&hl=en&ie=UTF-8 explains well the manner in which one may optimize their website. One of the bits of info there states "Google uses multiple spiders in order to speed up the process of locating its search words. The two main things that the Google spiders note on a web page are the words within the page and where the words are located on the page. They are built to index every significant word on a page." Also written there is "Some search engines such as Google ignore the Meta description and create their own description of the page, while other search engines will only support part of the description and draw the remaining information from the body copy of the page. An easy way create a Meta description tag would be to take the first sentence or two of the page and make that the Meta description content." Google PageRank is explained at ://www.google.com/technology/ and WebWorkshop gives their own explanation of Google PageRank and how they feel one can make the most of it at http://webworkshop.net/pagerank.html Invisible keywords (which I caution you to stay away from) are discussed at http://www.mikenew.net/articles/display_article.asp?news_id=66 and http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/search_engines/8794 - however, some webmasters choose to place a visible line of text at the top of a site page such as on the site http://www.dantescafe.com/ - at the top, you will see a line of words in text that summarize the contents of the site. This could also be a phrase in your case that would read something like "Marin Remodeling offers the finest in home and office remodeling in the San Francisco area." The more stickiness you have on your main page with links and topic-related text, the more likely it is that your URL will be in the first page of results on a search engine. You also made a good choice by picking "MarinRemodeling" as you URL name because it reflects exactly who you are. You might also consider purchasing an additional site name that reflects "San Francisco remodeling" in some way and then create a site for that name. On that site you would include many links to MarinRemodeling.com - don't create a mirror site, simply create a sister site. Also, go to the Open Directory Project at http://dmoz.org/ and submit your site there. I searched there for your site and found this message "Search: Marin Remodeling - No Open Directory Project results found" - the text at http://dmoz.org/add.html will explain to you how to add your link and why you should: "If your site has been accepted into the Open Directory, it may take anywhere from 2 weeks to several months for your site to be listed on partner sites which use the Open Directory data, such as AOL Search, DirectHit, HotBot, Google, Lycos, Netscape Search, etc. We make updates of the data available weekly, but each partner has their own update schedule." Other keyword suggestions to add would be "bay area" and "san francisco" and "california". To learn about how to best utilize keywords, please visit http://www.search-engine-optimization.ecommercehosts.com/keywords_b.htm and see the many links at http://www.weblens.org/optimize.html (Keyword Frequency Analyzers are located under that heading about midway down the page). Should you have any questions or require further explanation of the information I have provided, please request a clarification. SEARCH STRATEGY: "keyword stuffing" google "invisible keywords" Google PageRank Google PageRank explained site optimization keywords how to list keywords how to list keywords format DMOZ DMOZ google
Clarification of Answer by journalist-ga on 19 Feb 2003 09:20 PST PS Regarding submission of your site by a Google Answers Researcher Google Answers Researchers are independent contractors as opposed to Google corporation employees. We are also bound by our Terms of Service not to divulge our personal information to customers nor should customers give out personal information in their questions, which you would need to do to have a Researcher submit your site. The best way for you to begin is to personally submit your site to the Open Directory Project by visiting http://dmoz.org/add.html. Then go to http://dmoz.org/ and choose the link at the upper right of the page that says "Add URL" - this will allow you to drill down through the categories to find exactly where your site should be listed. Also, visit JimWorld at http://jimworld.com/promoteb.html if you wish to submit to more search engines. JimWorld shows a list of the major players with a link to each site. Look for a "Submit a site" or "Submit a URL" (usually towards the bottom of each site) and proceed from there. And definitely submit to DMOZ.
Clarification of Answer by journalist-ga on 23 Feb 2003 21:50 PST I've heard from another colleague who echoed most of the info I have suggested above and she added that you may have too many javascripts on the page, and there was nothing for the search engines to index except javascript code and pictures. She wrote "The rule one keyword=one page is good. MAX of five or six. If the word isn't on the page somewhere, it doesn't belong in the keyword tag." Her suggestion was that you go after keywords with less searches. "They haven't got a chance of ranking on a term that gets 1,062,408 searches...they'd be much more likely to rank on a term like 'bathroom remodeling' which gets 27,595 searches if they had a paragraph discussing bathroom remodeling, that is. Of course, they'd need some text on the page discussing that subject. Content is king." She also agreed that you need more related links on the site. She stated "Link popularity is ultra important these days, they need at least 20 links from related but not competing companies." I hope this additional information brings more clarity to your situation.

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Subject: Re: Where is the site?
From: dumbrhino-ga on 17 Feb 2003 12:16 PST

Just a side note, addtion should be additions:)
another typo was Remodelnig

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