Seeking SEO suggestions for a new site

Hi Jim,

Steve, the license plate guy here. I hope that all is well for you.

I and a friend have built a website for another friend. We’ve built it according to his instructions to achieve the "look" that he wants. My concern is that it isn’t built very well for SEO purposes.

When you, or anyone else on the forum who is knowledgeable about SEO, has time to do so, please take a look at it and offer suggestions. The site is:

SimpleLifeDevelopment.com

I would appreciate any useful suggestions that anyone has to offer.

Thanks,

Steve

Filed Under: Optimization Techniques

Comments

  1. Actual says:
    November 28, 2007 at 12:30 am

    Run your web address (including the www part) through this site
    ht tp: //validator.w3.org/#validate_by_uri it will show some errors you have on the lower half.

  2. AMPC says:
    November 29, 2007 at 12:40 am

    Hello Steve,

    Good to hear from you – hope all is going well for you!

    Here are a few suggestions:

    Make sure your main images have alt tags. Instead of:
    <img src="websecurity.mobi/images/logo.gif" width="182" height="182" border="0">

    make it:
    <img src="websecurity.mobi/images/logo.gif" title="Tennessee Land – Mountain Cabin Homes For Sale" width="182" height="182" border="0">

    Make the home link point to simplelifedevelopment.com/ rather than simplelifedevelopment.com/index.html

    Make it so that when people visit ht tp: //simplelifedevelopment.com/ they are redirected to simplelifedevelopment.com/

    Here is what may work for you – add this to your htaccess file (assuming that you have one)
    RewriteEngine on
    RewriteBase /

    #Redirect ht tp: //simplelifedevelopment.com to simplelifedevelopment.com
    RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^simplelifedevelopment.com
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ simplelifedevelopment.com/$1 [r=301,L]

    Make sure that all you have titles on each page and that they are unique – I noticed a few that were the same.

    Roger has a good point, when you have made the changes, run the site through the validator and try to get it error free as possible. A site can still rank well without validation, but it’s a safe bet to validate (the users viewing experience will be better and who knows how a bot will handle an invalid page, etc…)

    Add your link, and your friends as well, to your signature on this forum. It will help

    As I think of more, I’ll add them to the post.

    Regards,

    Jim.

  3. Steve says:
    November 29, 2007 at 12:50 am

    Thanks so much, Jim. Thank you too, Actual. I appreciate it.

    A question about adding the links to my signature. When I look at the "Signature Permissions" on the Edit Signature page of this forum it says:

    Allow HTML No
    Allow HTML BBCode Yes

    Please explain what that means. I don’t understand. And, how should I add my links to my signature, in what format? For example, which of the two below would be proper and more effective?

    ht tp: //autotags4u.com

    autotags4u.com

    I noticed that your signature and Actual’s signature have text links rather than the actual url of a page, or pages. Please advise how I should go about adding my signature in the most effective way. Thank you again.

    Steve

  4. AMPC says:
    November 29, 2007 at 1:00 am

    Steve,

    For your signature, use this :
    [UR L="ht tp: //autotags4u.com"]Custom License Plates[/URL]

    Just take the space out of the [UR L] above.

    The reason for using the non www version is that you refer to yourself this way on your site (your links point to autotags4u.com), so you want to be consistent.

    Regards,

    Jim.

  5. Steve says:
    November 29, 2007 at 1:24 am

    Thanks Jim, I appreciate it very much.

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