Invisible to Google?

I was wondering if any of you folks could give me your opinions why my
website (http://www.pendlebeerfestival.co.uk/) is not being found by Google
with the phrase "Pendle Beer Festival"? As far as I know the site is well
constructed (it passes the W3C Markup Validation check) but I have obviously
omitted something :-)


Gavin

"gavin" <no-one (AT) home (DOT) co.uk> wrote

I was wondering if any of you folks could give me your opinions why my
website (http://www.pendlebeerfestival.co.uk/) is not being found by
Google
with the phrase "Pendle Beer Festival"? As far as I know the site is well
constructed (it passes the W3C Markup Validation check) but I have
obviously
omitted something :-)


Gavin

Hi Gavin

Going through the site has made me incredibly thirsty.

To me it looks like Google having trouble with finding your internal links.
It doesn't seem to register many of them. We've debated this in the Usenet
group several times over the last couple of months. I am not so convinced
that putting your links into <li> tags is such a good idea. That <li> tag
thing, I just don't have much success with it. Others seem to have good
success with it. Perhaps, for a experiment, get the links in there somewhere
else in a <p> tag or linked images. You'll know within two or three weeks if
this has helped you, although I suspect your festival will be pretty much
over by then.

Also work on your external links. They are weak. Google puts an incredible
amount of importance to this factor today. If the external links indicate
that the web site is important, particularly anchor textual links from
authoritative site, then, well, the site is important. Go figure.

I never checked, but the web site seems a little young still, I'm sure
you'll get better performance from it next year provide you develop more
content. It needs to be fattened up internally too, more pages with more
keyphrase relevant content.

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I was wondering if any of you folks could give me your opinions why my
website (http://www.pendlebeerfestival.co.uk/) is not being found by
Google
with the phrase "Pendle Beer Festival"? As far as I know the site is
well
constructed (it passes the W3C Markup Validation check) but I have
obviously
omitted something :-)


Gavin

Hi Gavin

Going through the site has made me incredibly thirsty.

To me it looks like Google having trouble with finding your internal
links.
It doesn't seem to register many of them. We've debated this in the Usenet
group several times over the last couple of months. I am not so convinced
that putting your links into <li> tags is such a good idea. That <li> tag
thing, I just don't have much success with it. Others seem to have good
success with it. Perhaps, for a experiment, get the links in there
somewhere
else in a <p> tag or linked images. You'll know within two or three weeks
if
this has helped you, although I suspect your festival will be pretty much
over by then.

Also work on your external links. They are weak. Google puts an incredible
amount of importance to this factor today. If the external links indicate
that the web site is important, particularly anchor textual links from
authoritative site, then, well, the site is important. Go figure.

I never checked, but the web site seems a little young still, I'm sure
you'll get better performance from it next year provide you develop more
content. It needs to be fattened up internally too, more pages with more
keyphrase relevant content.

Hi Fred,
Many thanks for giving the site the "once over" and for the advice. I'll
certainly look at implementing what you have suggested. You're right that
the festival may be over by the time Google picks up any changes but the
festival will hopefully be an annual event so if I can get it in shape now
it'll be sorted in good time for next year.


Cheers,




Gavin

On Wed, 8 Mar 2006 20:22:57 -0000, "gavin" <no-one (AT) home (DOT) co.uk> wrote:

I was wondering if any of you folks could give me your opinions why my
website (http://www.pendlebeerfestival.co.uk/) is not being found by Google
with the phrase "Pendle Beer Festival"? As far as I know the site is well
constructed (it passes the W3C Markup Validation check) but I have obviously
omitted something :-)


Gavin

You need incoming links to the site with that phrase in the anchor
text.

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I am not so convinced that putting your links into <li> tags is such a
good idea.

Using LI (list) on "list" of links, like navigation is logical thing to do
(if you have many links, making it LIST of links), besidesnavigation is
semantically a list of links. And it WILL work or you are messing something
else BIG time.

That <li> tag thing, I just don't have much success with

Then you probably are messing up something else.

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"Big Bill" <kruse (AT) cityscape (DOT) co.uk> wrote

On Wed, 8 Mar 2006 20:22:57 -0000, "gavin" <no-one (AT) home (DOT) co.uk> wrote:

I was wondering if any of you folks could give me your opinions why my
website (http://www.pendlebeerfestival.co.uk/) is not being found by
Google
with the phrase "Pendle Beer Festival"? As far as I know the site is well
constructed (it passes the W3C Markup Validation check) but I have
obviously
omitted something :-)


Gavin

You need incoming links to the site with that phrase in the anchor
text.

Thanks very much, Big Bill - I'll look into that.


Gavin

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I was wondering if any of you folks could give me your opinions why my
website (http://www.pendlebeerfestival.co.uk/) is not being found by
Google
with the phrase "Pendle Beer Festival"?

Get more InBound links with "Pendle Beer Festival" in anchor text (<a
href="http://www.pendlebeerfestival.co.uk/">Pendle Beer Festival</a> that
is). Unless, ofcoz, you are optimizing for your URL. If not, ask other sites
linking to you possibly change link to have Pendle Beer Festival on anchor
text instead of your URL. So that's basically your problem, not enough links
with proper anchor, atleast seems so on quick glance...

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I was wondering if any of you folks could give me your opinions why my
website (http://www.pendlebeerfestival.co.uk/) is not being found by
Google
with the phrase "Pendle Beer Festival"?

Get more InBound links with "Pendle Beer Festival" in anchor text (<a
href="http://www.pendlebeerfestival.co.uk/">Pendle Beer Festival</a> that
is). Unless, ofcoz, you are optimizing for your URL. If not, ask other
sites
linking to you possibly change link to have Pendle Beer Festival on anchor
text instead of your URL. So that's basically your problem, not enough
links
with proper anchor, atleast seems so on quick glance...

Thanks very much for the advice!



Gavin

On Wed, 8 Mar 2006 20:22:57 -0000, "gavin" <no-one (AT) home (DOT) co.uk> wrote:

I was wondering if any of you folks could give me your opinions why my
website (http://www.pendlebeerfestival.co.uk/) is not being found by Google
with the phrase "Pendle Beer Festival"? As far as I know the site is well
constructed (it passes the W3C Markup Validation check) but I have obviously
omitted something :-)


Gavin

Hi
According to McDar you rank #9 or #10 but it is picking up :-

www. quaffale.org.uk/php/beer_festivals.php

as the address and not yours. This thing happened to one of my
keywords a while back.

Also, you don't need most of the meta tags that you have in place.

plh
Paul

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<snip>

To me it looks like Google having trouble with finding your internal
links. It doesn't seem to register many of them. We've debated this in the
Usenet group several times over the last couple of months. I am not so
convinced that putting your links into <li> tags is such a good idea. That
li> tag thing, I just don't have much success with it. Others seem to
have good success with it. Perhaps, for a experiment, get the links in
there somewhere else in a <p> tag or linked images. You'll know within two
or three weeks if this has helped you, although I suspect your festival
will be pretty much over by then.

Fred, all of those pages in the navagation are indexed in Google. So, Google
doesn't appear to have a problem finding the <li> links. Now this domain was
registered in Dec 2005.

Stacey