How do I get my website "www.shaklee.net/alicecoker" to appear when
someone puts in a search for "shaklee".  It didn't even come up in
Google search when I typed it in requesting that site.

Good Day nancy33-ga,


Upon reviewing your website, here is what I recommend to help you get
into the search results for “shaklee”:

1. Make sure the term appears in your website title.

2. Include more text on the home page, with the term shaklee scattered
throughout. The first paragraph should include a high concentration of
key phrases you wish to target, and be enclosed in H1 tags. H1 tags
carry more weight then regular text. You can modify the H1 tags using
cascading style sheets to make the text appear in regular size and
font face.

3. You should include the description and keyword meta tags in your
header, i.e.:
<meta name="keywords" content="shaklee,alice,delphenis,coker,alice
delpenis">
<meta name="description" content="shaklee independent distributor -
alice delpehnis coker: providing nutritional supplements to clients
all over the world">

4. The Google index takes a lot of information from
http://www.dmoz.org. Make sure you go and submit your website with
dmoz (this is the best way to get into Google: clicking the submit my
site link on Google actually takes you to the dmoz.org website
submission form).

5. Start acquiring backlinks to your website, preferably text links
with the term "shaklee" included in the anchor. This will increase you
PageRank (PR), and give you a better chance at being listed high in
the Search Engine Result Pages (SERPs).

This should get you started. You will probably find that getting
listed on Google is pretty easy. Once you submit at dmoz.org you will
show up on Google in a couple/few months (yes, it can take a while,
but there is little you can do but wait). The battle from there is
getting listed high for relevant search terms. The above will help you
achieve that, especially #5. Achieving a high ranking for the term
shaklee should not be very difficult. It is only a moderately
competitive term.

Included are a few resources that will help you with your venture on
the Internet, including a few answers to similar questions that I
answered for other users of Google Answers.

RESOURCES:

Website: SEO Copywriting
URL: http://www.internet-marketing-research.net/seo_copywriting.php

Website: Google and the Meta Description Tag
URL: http://www.internet-marketing-research.net/google_meta_tags_update.php

Website: Website Promotion 100
URL: http://www.bytechcanada.net/resources/website-promotion.shtml

Website: Google Questions - Higher Ranking in Google 
URL: http://answers.google.com/answers/main?cmd=threadview&id=248442 
 
Website: Google Questions - Google Search Engine Placement 
URL: http://answers.google.com/answers/main?cmd=threadview&id=248512 
 
Website: Google Questions - Google Page Rank 
URL: http://answers.google.com/answers/main?cmd=threadview&id=238877 

Website: Google Questions - Links from pages on my site itself
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I hope that you will find this information useful in achieving better
results on search engine placement. Should you feel that any part of
my answer is unclear or incomplete, please ask for a clarification
before rating my response.

Thank you for using Google Answers.


Regards,
slawek-ga

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Request for Answer Clarification by nancy33-ga on 28 Aug 2003 07:25 PDT

What is an H1 tag?  You have given me good info, however, at 70+ I am
a late bloomer and a slow learner.

Many thanks,
Alice

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Clarification of Answer by slawek-ga on 28 Aug 2003 07:40 PDT

Good Day nancy33-ga, 
 
 
<h1> tag identifies a "Heading 1", which is the largest possible
heading. Enclosing the text in <h1>Sample Text</h1> tags will result
in it showing up VERY LARGE. To counter the effect, cascading style
sheets (CSS) can be used to bring it back down to size. The search
engines as of now do not appear to be checking if the <h1> tags have
been modified, and automatically assume that this text is large
therefore more important.
 
Your cascading style sheet might look something like this: 
 
h1 { font-size: 12.0pt; } 
 
By saving this one line in a file, and loading it on all your pages,
all <H1> tags will be modified to a font size 12.
 
To load the new file for your pages, you need to call it via this
command inside your <head> </head> tags:
 
<link href="filename.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"> 
 
I hope that this helps you a little. It can be confusing at first, but
unfortunately this is a very large topic and difficult to explain "all
in one sitting". :)
 
Here is a good page on Cascading Style Sheets: 
 
Website: CSS Tutorial 
URL: http://www.w3schools.com/css/default.asp 
 
 
Regards, 
slawek-ga

The Researcher was at a disadvantage in that I am completely in the
dark as far as computers except to turn off, on and answer email.  But
thank you.  I probably need someone to just come into my office and
physically do what I need like create another website of my own and
link to my Shaklee site.

Good Day nancy33-ga,


<h1> tag identifies a "Heading 1", which is the largest possible
heading. Enclosing the text in <h1>Sample Text</h1> tags will result
in it showing up VERY LARGE. To counter the effect, cascading style
sheets (CSS) can be used to bring it back down to size. The search
engines as of now do not appear to be checking if the <h1> tags have
been modified, and automatically assume that this text is large
therefore more important.

Your cascading style sheet might look something like this:

h1 { font-size: 12.0pt; }

By saving this one line in a file, and loading it on all your pages,
all <H1> tags will be modified to a font size 12.

To load the new file for your pages, you need to call it via this
command inside your <head> </head> tags:

<link href="filename.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">

I hope that this helps you a little. It can be confusing at first, but
unfortunately this is a very large topic and difficult to explain "all
in one sitting". :)

Here is a good page on Cascading Style Sheets:

Website: CSS Tutorial
URL: http://www.w3schools.com/css/default.asp


Regards,
slawek-ga

I'm afraid you are simply being assigned a template page by Shaklee. 
I doubt that you have any access to the source code to add your name. 
I think the omly way to solve this is to use a work around.  You will
need to establish your own domain and have your own page hosted. On
this personal page, you can tell about yourself and then provvide a
link to the Shaklee web site using your name as a sufix.  However,
this may violate some inane rule of Shaklee, so check first.