Family Business Website low Traffic

#1

I have designed a web site for our family run business selling aloe
vera products. It has been up for roughly a week and has had very
little traffic. (30-40 hits). I have used the hosting company, 123-reg,
to submit the website to 10 different search engines including google.
I have also taken advise about meta tags in the pages (not sure whether
they are right). I registered with google adwords but have only got one
hit from that.

Any suggestions would be much appreciated.
The Website is www.aloe4life.net

Thanks, Dan.

#2

On Tue, 31 Jan 2006 15:00:29 +0100, Dan <aloe4lifenet (AT) aol (DOT) com> wrote:

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I have designed a web site for our family run business selling aloe
vera products. It has been up for roughly a week and has had very
little traffic. (30-40 hits). I have used the hosting company, 123-reg,
to submit the website to 10 different search engines including google.
I have also taken advise about meta tags in the pages (not sure whether
they are right). I registered with google adwords but have only got one
hit from that.

Read http://www.searchengineworld.com/misc/guide.htm

Don't waste time for submissions.

Get more links.

Wait about 9 months.

Best,
Borek
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#3

On 31 Jan 2006 06:00:29 -0800, "Dan" <aloe4lifenet (AT) aol (DOT) com> wrote:

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I have designed a web site for our family run business selling aloe
vera products. It has been up for roughly a week and has had very
little traffic. (30-40 hits).

Well, of course it will. It's only been a week.
Do you really expect to open on monday and be selling by tuesday ?

1: Get rid of that spash screen. Pointless.

2 : Remove the embedded CSS to a separate file.

3 : You have no <h1> or <h2>

4: Clean up your code. What's all this ? :

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Quote:

I have used the hosting company, 123-reg, to submit the website to 10 different search engines including google.
I have also taken advise about meta tags in the pages (not sure whether
they are right). I registered with google adwords but have only got one
hit from that.

Any suggestions would be much appreciated.
The Website is www.aloe4life.net

Thanks, Dan.

hth
plh
Paul

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#4

Yet another site that tries to ram Macromedia Flash down my throat.

http://www.eeye.com/html/research/ad...D20051104.html

Best tip of the day - can it. "Intro" screens are passe and upset
bots.

Spell check it. "Competetive"? "Keywords" tags are now ignored.

Follow the advice on externalising the style sheet - and then actually
USE it!

#5

It also doesn't display well at 800 x 600.

#6

Thanks, for the help. My intention was never to ram anything down
anybodies throat though. Also not sure what externalising the style
sheet means??? I used Macromedia Dreamweaver to design the pages so
have done no html code at all. (apart from meta tags). Compared to you
guys I am a novice, so go easy!

#7

On Tue, 31 Jan 2006 18:07:51 +0100, Dan <aloe4lifenet (AT) aol (DOT) com> wrote:

Quote post you are answering to, it is much easier to follow discussion
then.

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Also not sure what externalising the style sheet means???

Put all style (formatting) information into external content.css file and
link to it with

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

statement inside of your header. You will get much smaller and much easier
to maintain HTML code. Also, you will have separately content
(information) and formatting (appearance). That's how it should be done.

Best,
Borek
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http://www.chembuddy.com/?left=BATE&right=pH-calculator

#8

Dan wrote:

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Thanks, for the help. My intention was never to ram anything down
anybodies throat though. Also not sure what externalising the style
sheet means??? I used Macromedia Dreamweaver to design the pages so
have done no html code at all. (apart from meta tags). Compared to you
guys I am a novice, so go easy!

Well, you cannot expect to create high-quality code, if you don't know how
to do it. Tools like Dreamweaver don't do a good job here, if used as
WYSIWYG editors. And good, slim HTML code does effect your sites ranking to
a certain degree. Either learn how to write HTML or pay someone to build
your site.

I totally agree to the comments regarding the splash screen.

It looks as if your page should have a white background, but you did not
correctly set it. My browser defaults to a light grey.

Do not use images for the headlines and links. Use plain text and be sure to
wrap headlines in <h1>..</h1> (or h2 ... h6). If you insist on images
(though I can't imagine good reasons), set the ALT attribute to a
meaningful text.

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#9

Dan wrote:

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My intention was never to ram anything down
anybodies throat though.

They're talking about your splash screen. When we first visit your
website, an introductory animation is loaded and played. These are
passe and annoying.

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Also not sure what externalising the style
sheet means???

Part of learning HTML. To maximize what you can do with regard to
search engine marketing, HTML knowledge is helpful. There are things
you can do without knowing HTML such as link building and content
creation.

The other top ranking sites for "aloe vera" and "aloe vera uk" aren't
exactly well optimized HTML either with lots of table elements and so
forth. I'd think it should be pretty easy to move up in the search
engine results once your page is found by the search engines.

Hmmm, an estimated 153,000 searches monthly in the U.S. for "aloe vera"
-- that's not bad.

RFM
http://www.cyclelicio.us/

#10

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They're talking about your splash screen. When we first visit your website, an introductory animation is loaded and played. These are passe and annoying.

It's worse than that. It tries to run TWO andmakes me say "No" to the
Flash plug-in download twice. Once I've got rid of that, it sit sthere
displaying:

IF PAGE DOES NOT LOAD CORRECTLY CLICK ABOVE

However - you can't click above because there IS nothing above. What
it means is "click below". But it doesn't say this, and because the
page is badly optimised for 600 x 800, I actually have to scroll down
to find:

CLICK HERE TO SKIP INTRO

Which is displayed in off-white on white.

Then I get into the site. As a potential customer, I would long since
have clicked on "Back" and picked the next Google hit.

<param name="movie" value="loading.swf">

I LOATHE this thing.

"I'm wasting your time to tell you I'm wasting your time."

All webmasters should be made to attend a compulsory examination every
year, at which they should be made to download every page they've
written over a dialup link. When they've done that, they can go home.