Greetings, kristibweb!
First of all, there is good news: your Page Rank is not 0. You
actually don't have a Page Rank yet. You can tell this using the
Google Toolbar:
<http://toolbar.google.com>
If the Page Rank meter bar is white, it means that the page's rank is
0. If the Page Rank meter bar is grayed out, it means that the page
has not yet acquired a Page Rank.
I am puzzled, however, by your statement that you just launched your
website. This domain name has previously been crawled by the Googlebot
prior to April 1:
://www.google.com/search?q=%22%2Bwww.epictureframes.%2Bcom%22&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&filter=0
Are you saying that you have just re-launched the new design of your
website, or did you buy this website from someone else?
The fact that the Googlebot is already crawling your site is good. Now
you just have to work on things that will help you develop a good Page
Rank and cause your site to come up higher in Search Results.
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 Picture Frames
Spider meta desc Shop e Picture Frames for great sales on picture
frames, photo frames and many gift ideas for any occasions
Spider meta keywords picture frames, photo frames, gift ideas, wood
picture frames, wholesale picture frames, silver picture frames,
discount picture frames, picture frames, gift ideas, photo frames,
wood picture frames, wholesale picture frames, silver picture frames
Spider Text
e Picture Frames --> Home of Picture Frames Ready Made Picture
Frames? - ePictureFrames.com have been wholesalers and suppliers of
quality Ready Made Picture Frames and photo frames for many years.
Huge selection at the lowest prices. Wood Frames Aberdeen Antique Gold
(Regal) Antique Gold (Regent) Antique Silver (Carlisle) Antique Silver
(Chauncey) Barrington Brampton Classic Wood Collage Cube Flat Style
Hamilton Lexington Madison Multi Window Frames Old World Series Pencil
Holder Photo Boxes Raised Round Corners Square Corners Trenton
Metal Frames Brush Silver Floating (Silver) Hanover L-Shape
Series - Vertical L-Shape Series Series - Horizontal Matted Silver Pet
Lovers Shiny Silver Strafford Treasured Moments Victorian Glass &
Glass Wire Frames Fairmont Glass Mirror Vista Glass Riviera Glass
Cardiff Cardiff Boxes Freeport Pewter Pocono Pocono Boxes Pressed
Flowers - Acadia Pressed Flowers - Ellsworth Riviera Frames By
Size Frames By Color 2" x 3" Pictures Antique Walnut Frames 2.5" x
3.5" Pictures Black Frames 3.5" x 3.5" Pictures Blue Frames 3.5" x 5"
Pictures Cairo Walnut Frames 3" x 3" Pictures Dark Walnut Frames 4" x
12" Pictures Gold & Silver Frames 4" x 6" Pictures Gold Frames 4" x 7"
Pictures Green Frames 5" x 5" Pictures Lilac Frames 5" x 7" Pictures
Natural Frames 6" x 4" Pictures Rosewood Frames 6" x 8" Pictures
Silver Frames 7" x 5" Pictures Teak Frames 8.5" x 11" Pictures Teak
Black Frames 8" x 10" Pictures Walnut Black Frames 8" x 12" Pictures
Walnut Natural Frames 11" x 14" Pictures Red Frames picture
frames, photo frames, and gift ideas Picture Frames' Home |
Wholesale Picture Frames | Our Policy | Links | Link to Us
| E Picture Frames.com - Copyright & Copy; 2003, All Rights
Reserved. Please report any problems to Webmaster Official PayPal
Seal picture frames, photo frames, gift ideas
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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, your keywords tag includes two sets of the same words. To the
Search Engines that still use meta keywords for indexing, this may
look like an attempt to spam with your keywords. I recommend that you
change them to something like:
frame, frames, picture frames, photo frames, photos, gift, gifts,
idea, ideas, wood, teak, rosewood, oak, natural, metal, silver, gold,
brass, antique, pewter, glass, floating, discount picture frames, box,
boxes, retail, retailer, wholesale, wholesaler
and other applicable (relevant) words. However, I wouldn't bother
trying to include more than 100 words, since many of the major Search
Engines no longer look at the keywords tag.
Now, for Google and other Search Engines that no longer look at <meta>
tags, the text on your main page pretty much looks like it already
includes all of the keywords from your <meta> keywords tag.
However, 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>e-Picture Frames: Wood, Metal, Glass, and Specialty Photo
Frames -- Great as Gifts!</title>
Once you've got the changes to 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
Shopping: Photography: Albums and Frames
http://dmoz.org/cgi-bin/add.cgi?where=Shopping/Photography/Albums_and_Frames
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.
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.
As far as linking to adult or casino sites, I would be **VERY**
careful about doing this. Such sites frequently participate in link
exchanges, or are "mirror" sites -- that is, the identical site is
copied over and over again at different domain names. The Googlebot is
very sophisticated, and it recognizes such sites as "spamming"
attempts to influence Search Results -- and it doesn't treat these
sites very kindly. If you link to sites that have been designated
"spam" sites, it could trash your rating with Google -- something that
is very difficult from which to recover.
You are far better off linking to sites with good Page Ranks that sell
gift items, picture frames, photofinishing services, cameras, films,
photo albums, and the like. The Googlebot will recognize that these
are related sites and probably treat you favorably.
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 |
Clarification of Answer by
aceresearcher-ga
on
28 Apr 2003 13:15 PDT
Hi, kristiweb!
<< My queston is........
1. my website (www.epictureframes.com) Page Rank meter bar is
white ( 0/10), can you explain? >>
You are right, it is white rather than gray, which means your Page
Rank is zero. (My apologies for my original statement; I had just
installed a spyware-stopping program, which, unbeknownst to me, also
stopped my Google Toolbar Page Rank meter from working properly.)
It looks as though whoever owned your site prior to April 1 had
engaged in several questionable practices, and it is quite likely that
your site has been dropped by Google because of them.
The summary for the second result on this page of Search Results (for
pages which contain http://www.epictureframes.com) shows a date of
3/19/2003:
://www.google.com/search?q=%22%2Bwww.epictureframes.%2Bcom%22&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&filter=0&num=100
If you click on on the word "Cached" at the end of the second result,
it brings up Google's cached copy of the website on that date:
http://216.239.57.100/search?q=cache:1FYh-jQrTXEC:www.epictureframes.com/+%22%2Bwww.epictureframes.%2Bcom%22&hl=en&ie=UTF-8
As you can see from the left-hand menu, at that time the site
contained links to a lot of adult toys. Furthermore, at the bottom of
the page, a different URL is listed:
1-adult***toys-********s-*****s.com
and the link to the "webmaster" at the bottom of that page goes to:
webmaster@1-adult***toys-********s-*****s.com
In addition, the Search Results listed above contain lots of links to
pages which are no longer in existence, but which at one time
contained information on sex toys.
The Googlebot is an extremely sophisticated piece of software, and
while Google does not share the details of its algorithm, we do know
that it has been programmed to detect sites which it thinks are a
thinly-veiled attempt to position adult content on search result pages
for other, mainstream items. It is quite likely that the Googlebot
decided to drop your site for this reason.
Furthermore, the Googlebot tends to drop sites which participate in
"link farms", and because this site which links to yours also links to
hundreds of other sites, it is likely that the Googlebot considers it
a "link farm".
http://www.shop4candles.com/links.php/E/1.html
Finally, it looks like you have a similar site at:
http://www.e-picture-frames.com
It is quite possible that the Googlebot, which has also been
programmed to detect very similar sites with different URLs as
"copies" of each other, might consider the two sites an attempt to
"cheat" at getting increased Search Results placement.
How to try to recover from being banned by Google:
1) Cease participating in link farms. Get yourself de-listed
immediately from http://www.shop4candles.com/links.php/E/1.html
Work to get links to your sites on other sites which have a Page Rank
of 4 or higher, and which link to **only a few** other sites. Having
links on sites that link to hundreds of others not only does **not**
help, it actually harms your Page Rank in the Googlebot's eyes.
2) You offer reciprocal links to other sites:
http://www.epictureframes.com/add_links.asp
Be very sure that any links you place on these pages are closely
related to your website's theme, as I suggested above, such as gift
items, picture frames, photofinishing services, cameras, films, photo
albums, etc. Furthermore, you should be very selective about this, and
have no more than a dozen such "quality" outgoing links.
3) Be very careful to ensure that your content on
http://www.epictureframes.com
differs greatly from that on
http://www.e-picture-frames.com
so that the Googlebot does not think that they are duplicate sites.
4) Do not include adult content on your picture frames site, and do
not link to adult sites.
Then, write a profusely apologetic to the Powers That Google at
help@Google.com . Explain that you did not understand the concept of
"Link Farms", and that you did not realize what you were doing would
cause you to be banned from Google's index. Tell them that you have
repented from the error of your ways, and promise to never ever do it
again.
Although Google does not **have** to let banned sites back in to their
index, I DO know of sites that have been able to get re-listed by
cleaning up their act in this way.
<< As you said ".............To get a higher Google Page Rank, you
should
ask sites with ***similar or related** themes to yours............"
My question is .........
2. what is criteria to distinguish(know) for a similar( releated)
themes to my product lines? >>
The Googlebot knows if sites are truly related, because they will have
lots of key words in their text in common: pictures, photos, frames,
etc. However, the Googlebot is also smart enough to know if a website
provides content on two **very** different themes, such as picture
frames and adult content.
<< My friends own website that selling lingerie
(www.1-sexy-lingerie-wear.com), Bronze
(www.1-bronze-ceramics-wood-gifts-decorative.com), and adult video and
toys.
Would you please educate or give me some ideas of the business types
that related to each website mentioned above, so I can have some ideas
to improve my sites in the right direction? >>
It appears that this additional Question has launched us into areas
that, while related, are beyond the scope and price of your original
Question on http://www.epictureframes.com . I encourage you to post
this additional Question as a new Question, so that it can be fully
addressed and so that you can receive a complete Answer.
Best wishes!
aceresearcher
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