[Fuzzy]

Originally Posted by Nicksyb

So if I get this right then there is no point trying to make my site SEO friendly, as it should be straight from scratch.

From what I gather and have been told/advised my meta tags/data thing on each page etc are not there and I also have odd coding floating around.

I admit that I have not been building up my links and this needs to be done, however my site has been submitted to all the search engines but it still seems to be invisible.

Nicky, Fuzzy knows bugger all about SEO, just how important it is and I agree you can have the most amazing looking site that you have spent £3K on not rank anyway because of no/poor SEO - pointless.

[PremierPDS]

Originally Posted by Chubster

Is there a handy little tool you can use to test pages of your site for googlebility so to speak

Chubs, that's so funny!You're my man for technical terms from now on in!

[Indizine]

Fuzzy - where is your new site btw? Thought it was gonna be done before now?

[Chubster]

Originally Posted by PremierPDS

Chubs, that's so funny!You're my man for technical terms from now on in!

I was being serious.... I want a googlebility checker

[Fuzzy]

Originally Posted by Indizine

Fuzzy - where is your new site btw? Thought it was gonna be done before now?

Don't

[Alvin]

Originally Posted by Chubster

I was being serious.... I want a googlebility checker

There are hundreds out there here is just one.

http://www.atracks.co.uk/resources/simulator.html

A

[Alvin]

Originally Posted by PremierPDS

Arh right- excuse my naivety here Al and I'm really grateful for your advice. I'm hoping to totally rebuild my site, just unsure of how to go about the SEO bit. I've just done a course in Dreamweaver but I'm still at proper basic level so your words of wisdom are priceless. So it's all about content and since search engines can't read images, it's more about the written content that they can read? I guess that's why bad people hide content to blend into background colours etc huh? Mmm, I'm a little bit wiser already!

Our snake skin oil reaches the parts othere's can't.

A

[PremierPDS]

I'm hoping to start work on it this week sometime Al but it may take quite some time to build. I've heard people say something about building sites using templates and that they're not good for SEO? I was wondering what your thoughts are on this as templates seem the easiest route to take (Dreamweaver templates that is) and we weren't told in college that this would adversely affect SEO. What is it about templates that makes them so bad? Is it because they all contain much of the same info apart from the body content?

[awebapart]

Originally Posted by Nicksyb

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Originally Posted by Chubster

I want a googlebility checker

Depends what you mean by googability. There are tons of different tools that will give you certain elements of the picture, from spider simulators to keyword density analysers, inbound link checkers etc.

Some of my favourites include:

1. web stats, these should show what people are searching for before visiting your site - thus showing in most cases that your site is appearing in the searches for certain words

2. the site: command - to show what pages the search engines have indexed (and what your titles, urls, etc are)

[Chubster]

Just a tool that shows how search engines view a page