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Old 07-07-2006, 08:30 PM
KLB KLB is offline
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Here are some suggestions. While I can't promise they will help, they certainly won't hurt and many people believe that they can help with SEO.

The first thing I tried to do with your pages was validate the HTML and found that your pages contain lots of HTML validation errors. It is believed by many that validation errors can ***** up search engine bots and make it harder for them to "understand" pages. At the very least valid HTML & CSS will help ensure your pages display properly across a wide range of browsers with little effort. The best way to validate code is to use Firefox with the Webdeveloper extension.

Way too many tables. If you were able to ditch your use of tables and use DIV tags and CSS instead to handle layout, you would be better able to organize the order of the raw HTML and text of your pages for a more optimal key word placement. This could also greatly simplify your HTML code of your site making your pages easier for search engines to understand and improve the HTML tag to text ratio. Google may be looking at the overall HTML structure of pages in their algorithms.

Make more extensive use of <Hx> tags. While I found <H1> and <H2> tags on your pages you should make more use of the <H2> tags and lower order <Hn> tags to help add semantic structure to your pages. This could really help search engines better understand your pages.

From a personal observation, I found your pages way too busy and confusing. I could not be at all certain what was ads (if there were ads) and what was content on your site. The layout also confused me so much that I wasn't sure where I wanted to go on your site. If I had stumbled upon your site during a natural search, I would have probably immediately backed out of it as I would have assumed it to be "spam" simply because of the high "noise" factor and complexity. Google may be looking at your very high link density and the complexity of your pages and be making a similar conclusion. This conclusion may not seem fair or accurate, but a user like myself will only take a few seconds to evaluate a page before deciding to back out of it.
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