please check my site http://www.deviouswigs.com for the overall
appearance  wording and usablitily. are my key words sufficient enough
to attract hits? what I can do to make the site search engine
friendly?

Greetings, devious!

I had no idea that so many unique and unusual hair and wig accessories
existed!

First, let's run your site through the Search Engine Spider Simulator
at Search Engine World:
http://www.searchengineworld.com/cgi-bin/sim_spider.cgi

Spider url            http://www.deviouswigs.com 
Spider title          Devious Wigs and Things***** 
Spider meta desc      Devious Wigs and Things -- wigs, weaving
extension and braiding supplies. 100%human hair lashes, natural,
costume and anime styles. glitter, jewels, wig caps, styrofoam heads,
clips, pieces!

Spider meta keywords  wigs, fake hair, costume, discount, Women,
glitter, Long, color strips, Short, bob, china, tasha, selena, desire,
layered, bargain, Beautiful, haircare, hair replacement, costume
lashes, 100% human hair eyelashes, tinsel, feather, peluca, disco,
purple, green, yellow, orange, red, brown, black, white, burgundy,
blue, turquoise, violet, pink, magenta, hot pink, yellow, sailor moon,
japanamation, japanimation, halloween, party, celebration, engagement,
festival, special occassion, bannana clip, up doo, ponytail, bun,
braid, fun, humor, shopping, hairpiece, gold, silver, fiesta, carnival

Spider Text           I accept payment through PayPal!, the #1 online
payment service! Designed by Diffusion Interactive site last updated
3/24/03 @ 6:43 pm


It looks like you've already done a pretty good job on your meta tag
keywords and descriptions.

To make sure your meta keywords get properly indexed, I would insert a
space between "100%" and "human hair" in your Spider meta description
above. You might also try adding the terms "dress up, dress-up,
disguise, disguises, wig, costumes, hairstyle, hairstyles" and correct
the spelling of "occasion" and add "occasions".

The current wisdom is that any more than 3 or 4 occurrences of a
certain keyword is overkill; any more occurrences will probably be
ignored, and may even cause negative effects on your Search Engine
ranking for those words.

You can check your keyword density by inputting your URL at Search
Engine World's Keyword Density Analyzer (ignore words of *2*
characters or less):
http://www.searchengineworld.com/cgi-bin/kwda.cgi

Total Words: 12
---------------
Occurrences : 29 
Count Word Density 
4 hair 13.79% 
4 wigs 13.79% 
3 costume 10.34% 
2 100 6.9% 
2 devious 6.9% 
2 glitter 6.9% 
2 human 6.9% 
2 lashes 6.9% 
2 payment 6.9% 
2 pink 6.9% 
2 things 6.9% 
2 yellow 6.9% 

2 Word Phrases: 4 
-----------------
Occurrences : 8 
Count Word Density 
2 100 human 25% 
2 devious wigs 25% 
2 human hair 25% 
2 wigs things 25% 

3 Word Phrases: 2 
-----------------
Occurrences : 4 
Count Word Density 
2 100 human hair 50% 
2 devious wigs things 50% 


You want to do a good job with your meta tags because many Search
Engines still look at them; however, Google and some other Search
Engines now ignore meta tags because webmasters were "stacking" them
with hundreds of unrelated terms.

These Search Engines use actual text as big determining factor in
whether your site is content-rich, so I suggest putting some
additional text on your Home Page. Right now your text consists only
of
"I accept payment through PayPal!, the #1 online payment service!
Designed by Diffusion Interactive site last updated 3/24/03 @ 6:43 pm"

You might consider splitting your "About Us" page into two; put the
"About Us" info at the bottom of your HOME page, and label the
remainder of the "About Us" page as "Reviews" instead.


In addition, you will want to label your links with "alt" tags (text
that "pops up" when the user mouses over the link). For example,
<td width="63" height="55"><a href="lashes.htm"
onMouseOut="MM_swapImgRestore()"
onMouseOver="MM_swapImage('circle_lashes','','images/circle_lashes2.jpg',1)"><img
name="circle_lashes" src="images/circle_lashes.jpg" width="61"
height="55" border="0" alt="Fake Eyelashes"</a></td>

For some excellent tips on "alt" tags, see the Webmonkey Tutorial on
"Accessible HTML" by Matt Margolin at:
http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/97/11/index4a.html

 
To encourage Search Engine robots to crawl and index your page,
include the following robots <meta> tags:
<meta name="Robots" content="index,follow">   
<meta name="revisit-after" content="10 Days">  
 
Also, upload a text file (this can be created with Notepad) to your
server with the URL http://www.deviouswigs.com/robots.txt which
contains
the following:
 
User-agent: *  
Disallow:   
 
This file will also encourage Search Engine robots to crawl and index
your page; it tells robots that they are all allowed to index your
site, and that you do not forbid them to visit any area of it. To
ensure that your robots.txt file is done correctly, run it through the
robots.txt file validator at Search Engine World:
http://www.searchengineworld.com/cgi-bin/robotcheck.cgi 


In terms of usability / readability, I recommend reducing the size of
your http://www.deviouswigs.com/images/picture.jpg image, so that your
menu bar shows on the browser page without the user having to scroll
down to find it. Otherwise, for someone who does not notice the scroll
bar, it might look like your only menu options are "About Us" and
"Contact Us".

I do like your menu bar on the Home page, and I would recommend
replacing the menu bars at the bottom of your other pages with this
same menu bar. In addition, I encourage you to consider putting the
menu bar at the TOP of each page, rather than the bottom, so that the
user does not have to scroll down to access it.


For additional helpful information, I recommend you visit Danny
Sullivan's Search Engine Watch site and read:
  "Search Engine Placement Tips"
http://www.searchenginewatch.com/webmasters/tips.html
  "How To Use HTML Meta Tags"
http://searchenginewatch.com/webmasters/meta.html
  The index to Search Engine Watch's webmaster info is here:
http://searchenginewatch.com/webmasters/index.html

 
For more information on developing a Google-friendly website, I
recommend that you study the information in Google's Help Department:
://www.google.com/webmasters   
Guidelines   
://www.google.com/webmasters/guidelines.html   
Facts & Fiction (myths dispelled)   
://www.google.com/webmasters/facts.html   
Search Engine Optimization (SEO)   
://www.google.com/webmasters/seo.html   
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)   
://www.google.com/webmasters/faq.html   
User Support Discussion Forum   
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=google.public.support.general   
  
  
Another fabulous resource is the forum at WebmasterWorld.com:   
http://www.webmasterworld.com  

and the resources at Search Engine World:   
http://www.searchengineworld.com   
   
I encourage you to visit these sites and learn more about making your
site attractive and friendly to Search Engines.
  
 
Before Rating my Answer, if you have any questions about this
information, please post a Request for Clarification, and I will be
glad to see what I can do for you.
  
 
I hope that this Answer provides exactly the information that you 
needed. Best wishes on increased traffic for your website!
  
Regards,

aceresearcher

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Request for Answer Clarification by deviouswigsnthings-ga on 25 Mar 2003 20:13 PST

thank you so much for all of your advice, i will be working on the
items you've suggested. i would also like to know if you can tell me
whether my site is easy to use (usablitily) and if you think i should
add  more content or make any other changes to the look and feel
(appearance).
thanks,
anna

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Clarification of Answer by aceresearcher-ga on 26 Mar 2003 08:40 PST

Anna,

As far as usability, with the exception of the items I mentioned
above, I believe that your site is pretty straightforward and
intuitive to use.

When accessing the "Wig Styles" page (
http://www.deviouswigs.com/wigs.htm ), I did get a pop-up
http://count.exitexchange.com/exit/1181777

I'm not sure what's on this page; I only got a blank page, because my
ad-killer software blocked it. However, I do not recommend the use of
pop-ups -- they make a lot of people (including me) upset, and they
tend to cause people to not want to use a site.

I recommend the following changes for spelling and capitalization:

Po box 4334 --> P.O. Box 4334

4015 N. 16th Street ste. H   --> Suite H
(s.e. corner of 16th st. and indian school rd)  -->
    (southeast corner of 16th Street and Indian School Road)
http://www.deviouswigs.com/contact.htm

All wigs picutred here are made -->
  All wigs pictured here are made
they are less costly that human hair wigs  -->
  they are less costly than human hair wigs 
http://www.deviouswigs.com/wigs.htm

At the bottom of most pages:
click on the sytle  -->  Click on the style
place the item      -->  Place the item 
your order will     -->  Your order will 


Best wishes,

ace

Thank you so much for all your research, it was very helpful! sorry it
took so long for me to get this rated, i'm a new bee. wasn't aware of
the rating.

You really shouldn't make an entrance page because it is not necessary
for viewers and more cumberson to enter your site. In the
homepage(http://www.deviouswigs.com/index2.htm) there is a bottom menu
but it is diffrent from the other menus on the page.
http://www.deviouswigs.com/hairstuff.htm. Your paypal banner ads are
too distracting and doesn't go with your overall design of your site.
Read some of the links
http://builder.cnet.com/webbuilding/pages/Authoring/DesignNightmares