I've been so busy with everyone elses sites that my core site has been neglected. Many have told me it has taken a nose dive and that it needs a remake. Really it needed a major overhaul. If anyone cares to to take a look and maybe let me know where I went wrong or did ok, please by all means do so, because the upload date is just around the corner. here's the link to it's home... http://cleandeck.net/ Thanks David
thanks, but I'm still having problems on my photo page, trying to load some galleries. they work on my server down here but not when I load on to the web server. What color background did you have in mind?
I noticed one typo on the home. one which could withstand the abuse and harshness that farming has upond the equipment. On your testimonials: Bill From: Oak Brook IL I had some spray left in the can from when I used it on my mower. So I sprayed my snow shove. Nothing sticks to it pushing the snow just got a lot easier. Beyond that everything looks great.
According to "HTML Tidy" Source code: Line 11 - meta element not closed Line 38 - Col 43 <img> element not closed Line 43 - Col 569 <img> element not closed Line 43 - Col 706 <img> element not closed Line 43 - Col 847 <img> element not closed Line 43 - Col 976 <img> element not closed Line 43 - Col 1096 <img> element not closed Line 47 - Col 372 unescaped & (s/b & Line 79 - Col 134 <img> element not closed Line 106 <img> element not closed Line 118 - Col 90 (s/b document.write("<\/h1>"); <title>Clean Deck</title> You should ad a short description to the title using keywords Google displays about 64 characters including spaces <meta name="description" content="CLEAN DECK - Is a specialty graphite dry lubricant coating to reduce corrosion and eliminate clogging in grass cutting equipment and many other tools." /> Google displays about 150 characters in the description listed under the title <meta name="keywords" content="clean deck, lubricant, paint, environmentally friendly, graphite, lawn, mower, undercoating, deck, clean, tools, home, garden, commercial, residential, snow removal equipment, pine wood derby, grease"> You should add "graphite dry lubricant" or "graphite dry lubricant coating" also "corrosion" and "High Performance graphite lubricant" I ran your site through a web page analyzer This is the result: Keywords: You do have Meta-Tag Keywords in your site. These will help your sites positioning in the search engines. PROBLEM SOLUTION You are using your keywords ineffectively. You are only using 201 characters when you can use up to 1000. We suggest that you simply add some more keywords into your Meta-Tag Keyword list. The Keywords you are currently using are listed below. For more information on Keyword Meta-Tags Click Here. You are not spamming your keywords, they will be accepted by the search engines Your Keywords Are: clean deck lubricant paint environmentally friendly graphite lawn mower undercoating deck clean tools home garden commercial residential snow removal equipment pine wood derby grease Title: PROBLEM SOLUTION You are using your Title ineffectively. You are only using 10 characters when you can use up to 100. We suggest that you use a few more words in your TITLE Tag, and try to use your main keywords if possible. For more information on the Title Tag Click Here. Your Title is: Clean Deck You are using your keywords within your Title effectively, you are using 3 of your keywords in your Title. Description: You are using your Description effectively Your Description is: CLEAN DECK - Is a specialty graphite dry lubricant coating to reduce corrosion and eliminate clogging in grass cutting equipment and many other tools." You are using your keywords within your description effectively, you are using 6 of your keywords in your description. Body: You are using your Keywords as follows in the body of your page: clean deck 17 times Good, do nothing lubricant 5 times Good, do nothing paint 0 times Add to your web page text environmentally friendly 1 time Good, do nothing graphite 10 times Good, do nothing lawn 13 times Good, do nothing mower 20 times Good, do nothing undercoating 1 time Good, do nothing deck 21 times Good, do nothing clean 22 times Good, do nothing tools 6 times Good, do nothing home 6 times Good, do nothing garden 2 times Good, do nothing commercial 1 time Good, do nothing residential 2 times Good, do nothing snow removal equipment 0 times Add to your web page text pine wood derby 0 times Add to your web page text grease 4 times Good, do nothing You are using your keywords within the body of your page effectively, you are using 15 of your keywords in the body of your page. File Sizes: Home Page 11.75Kb http://david.cleandeck.net//images/blank.png 0.02Kb http://david.cleandeck.net//images/type_lawnmowers_and_tractors_m anual-reel-mowers.jpg 0.02Kb http://david.cleandeck.net//images/type_lawnmowers_and_tractors_e lectric-push-type-mowers.jpg 0.02Kb http://david.cleandeck.net//images/type_lawnmowers_and_tractors_g as-powered-mowers.jpg 0.02Kb http://david.cleandeck.net//images/type_lawnmowers_and_tractors_l awn-tractors.jpg 0.02Kb http://david.cleandeck.net//images/type_lawnmowers_and_tractors_z ero-turn-radius-mowers.jpg 0.02Kb http://david.cleandeck.net//images/ordernow.gif 0.02Kb http://david.cleandeck.net//images/1046666mower2-main_Full.jpg 0.02Kb Total 11.91Kb Your File Size is good. Download Time: Time Taken To Download On A 56Kbs Modem 3.43 Seconds On 128Kbs DSL 1.50 Seconds On 512Kbs DSL/Cable 0.38 Seconds On 1024Kbps DSL/Cable 0.19 Seconds Your Download Time is good. hope this helps falcon
Thanks deyounggerry - fixed errors. usually my typing is really bad. navyfalcon - alot to fix, thanks.
This information is for all readers of this forum: What 'Google' says about "meta tags" http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=35264&topic=8522 - The title: Google displays about 64 characters, including spaces - The description: Google displays about 150 characters, including spaces - The keywords list - is for you to list the keywords you optimized the page for - make sure the keyword you use is the same as listed - word and words are not the same. Do not list empty keywords (words that are not used in the title, description, and/or body) they do not help. Make sure you check the keywords in a keyword suggestion tool such as wordtracker http://freekeywords.wordtracker.com/ also get their free keyword information What do I do next with these keywords? http://www.wordtracker.com/usingkeywords/?source=freetool and check your page in a webpage analyzer http://www.creatingonline.com/site_promotion/website_checker.htm check your page in a validation tool, such as HTML Tidy http://infohound.net/tidy/ - hope this helps falcon
The only problem I find is html tidy gives warnings for anything in java script or any link with & in it
- Try javascript code quality tool http://www.jslint.com/ - http://www.webmasterworld.com/javascript/3219813.htm - These are for javascript - hope this helps falcon
Well thanks to all. Took a lot of tweaking, looking, fixing and listening to what others had to say. It pays to keep your site fresh, listen to others and watch your stats. My Bounce Rate is down to 35.69% New Visits are up 159.67% Avg. Time on Site 13:44 minutes Pages/Visit 6.91 In every catagory the site is up. With more tweaks it should go up more. Even the conversion rate to sales have increased. Again thanks to everyones input here and the emails. Dave
You need to add these words to the body or remove them from the keyword list paint ............................0 times ..Add to your web page text snow removal equipment ..0 times ..Add to your web page text pine wood derby .............0 times ..Add to your web page text small engine repair ..........0 times ..Add to your web page text - hope this helps falcon
Hi Dave, it's John (previously eVentureBiz). Those are some excellent stats. Your bounce rate is really low and the average time on site is awesome. Nice job.
Hey Hey it's the WordPress Master. Good to see you back and thanks for the high praise. Hope everything has been going well for you out in Gambling Land. The site is really going in terms of revenu and the stats ain't bad either. How about your Hosting Site. Bet you are just sitting back and enjoying life. Dave
ishkey my buddy. Coming back to these forums brings back memories, just my 270 posts are now back down to something like 4 LOL. I actually have a new site design coming out for our site. I hired out a designer/coder to build a site for us. I think he missed the mark when it came to getting in touch with our target audience so now I've recreated the site with my own design view and now I have a coder implementing it. The basic idea is in the Website Review area, but I've changed a few things since then. Anyway, I like your site redesign over your last one. So obviously you are bringing in targeted traffic. What kinds of marketing do you do?
Hey John - I can see your site is fairly graphic intensive but is took 24 seconds before it finished loading. Might be just me (or some potential customer) but that's a heck of long time to wait around. Anyone else have the same load time? CP
CovertPea, I assume you're talking about our current site? That is a long time to load. I suspect it might be a WordPress plugin hogging up some resources and am taking a look. But our new site is almost completed which should load much faster. Thanks for the heads up.
