Greetings, minister!
First of all, there is good news: the Googlebot has already crawled
both your sites:
://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sa=G&q=%22%2Bwww.aforeverafterwedding.net%22
Furthermore, you have made both these sites quite different, which
will also help, because the Googlebot is able to determine when two
sites with different domain names have nearly identical content, and
the Googlebot is not kind to sites that it thinks are trying to get
higher Search Results placement by doing this.
Now, let's run your site through the Search Engine Spider Simulator
at Search Engine World:
http://www.searchengineworld.com/cgi-bin/sim_spider.cgi
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Spider title A Forever After Wedding
Spider meta desc No description available.
Spider meta keywords Reverand Patricia Borsum, marriage vows,
chaplain, wedding minster, wedding minsters, wedding officiant,
forever after, ordained minister, multi-faith minister, interfaith
minister, interfaith weddings, non-traditional weddings, traditional
wedding, spirtitual wedding ceremonies, customized weddings, north
county weddings, custom weddings, custom wedding vows, funeral
minister, memorial service minister, baby blessing ceremonies,
Patricia Borsum
Spider Text
Information about Weddings Services Memorials & Christening Services "
May your love be a moving sea between the shores of your souls ."
Kahill Gibran Hello, your wedding ceremony is the heart and soul of
your wedding day. As an ordained multi-faith minister & chaplain, I
honor and respect all beliefs and traditions whether religious,
spiritual or secular. I am available to assist you in creating a
personalized, heart-centered, romantic ceremony that will reflect your
love, beliefs and dreams. Let's make this YOUR magical day that will
mirror exactly what is meaningful to YOU. I would love the opportunity
to officiate your special ceremony and to be part of bringing to light
the sacredness of your deep love, friendship and commitment. Your
ceremony deserves my pledge to inspire your guests, reflect your
personalities and to transform your wedding day into a joyful, magical
time. Please read more about my Ceremonies HOME | Weddings |
Ceremonies | Testimonials | Services & Fees | Links | Other Services
760-476-0466 e-mail: revpat@flash.net rev 3/31/03 Website by Digital
Design Links
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Google and some other Search Engines now ignore meta tags because
webmasters were "stacking" them with hundreds of unrelated terms;
however, you will want to do a good job with your meta tags because
many Search Engines still look at them.
It looks like you have done a good job with your keyword phrases;
however, I recommend correcting the spellings of "Reverend",
"minister", and "spiritual", and adding the following individual
keywords:
marriage, marriages, minister, ministers, chaplains, wedding,
weddings, officiant, officiants, vows, ceremony, ceremonies,
interfaith, inter-faith, multifaith, multi-faith, ordained,
non-traditional, nontraditional, traditional, spiritual, custom,
customized, San Diego
You will want to add a meta description tag, something like:
<meta name="description" content="Patricia Borsum, a San Diego
minister specializing in multi-faith weddings and custom wedding
vows">
Now, for Google and other Search Engines that no longer look at <meta>
tags, you may want to re-work the text on your main page so that it
includes all of the keywords from your <meta> keywords tag:
marriage, marriages, minister, ministers, chaplain, chaplains,
wedding, weddings, officiant, officiants, vows, ceremony, ceremonies,
interfaith, inter-faith, multifaith, multi-faith, Reverend Patricia
Borsum, forever after, ordained, non-traditional, nontraditional,
traditional, spiritual, custom, customized, north county, funeral,
memorial service, baby blessing, San Diego
Make sure that the words "minister", "wedding", "weddings", and "San
Diego" appear at least 2 or 3 times in your main page text -- but not
20 times or more: the Googlebot will consider that to be an attempt to
skew Search Engine results as well.
In addition, because Google and other Search Engines think that the
Title is an important piece of information about a page, I would
recommend changing your Title to:
<title>A Forever Wedding, San Diego Wedding Minister</title>
Once you've got your new website ready to go, you will want to submit
it to Google at:
://www.google.com/addurl.html
(Be aware that it may take anywhere from 1 to 3 months for your site
to start showing up on Google; however, since Google also uses DMOZ as
a guide to its indexing efforts, you might be able to speed that up a
little by also submitting your site in a DMOZ category as described
next.)
DMOZ (Directory Mozilla/Open Directory Project):
http://www.dmoz.org/add.html
FIRST: search using keywords that really describe your new
website to find the best category at http://www.dmoz.org , then
once you're on the page for the category you choose,
click on the blue "Add URL" hypertext link in the
upper right-hand corner of the page.
For you, I recommend
Society: Relationships: Weddings: Ceremony:
Officiants: United States: California
http://dmoz.org/cgi-bin/add.cgi?where=Society/Relationships/Weddings/Ceremony/Officiants/United_States/California
Other popular Search Engines to which you can submit your new site:
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
To get a higher Google Page Rank, you should ask sites with similar or
related
themes to yours if they would place a link to your website on theirs
in exchange for you placing a link to their website on yours. You will
especially want to find other sites which already have a Page Rank of
4 or higher; you can determine a site's Page Rank using the Google
Toolbar, which is an add-in to Microsoft Internet Explorer. You can
read more about the Toolbar, and dowload it, here:
http://toolbar.google.com
Remember that links from a few ***quality*** sites with related themes
who link to only a few other pages (including yours) will do far more
to improve your Page Rank than links from one hundred other pages that
link to hundreds of sites.
CAUTION: Be wary of "submit-a-site", website "positioning", and
"search engine optimizer" services, and "link exchanges" (link farms),
who promise to increase your Page Rank in exchange for money (or for
free, for that matter). Such programs (like WebPosition Gold and
LinksToYou) are a good way to get your site banned from Search
Engines.
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 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.
If you take full advantage of all the resources listed above to
increase your knowledge and proficiency as a webmaster, I am confident
that you will see it pay off in improved Search Engine Results.
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 for increased search rankings and traffic for your
website!
Regards,
aceresearcher |
