Critique help with search engines

Hi,

I've always had the worst luck getting Google to spider my sites. I
have two sites. One in which I've given up on after over 5 years of
not having one single page listed at Google and a new one that Google
will spider a little. The funny thing is that I've always tried my
best to make an honest site that people would like. Maybe it's those
who play tricks with the search engine that get listed. I don't know,
but I won't stoop that low!

My question:
I have some great concerns about how the global link structure of a
site should be. I'm referring to the links that sites usually put on
the left side of the page. I have a software download site with 15
main directories. Example, let's say someone clicks on the Business
directory. This will take them to the Business directory, which will
display all of the 15 main top directories plus all of the Business
sub directories. Will that confuse the search engines? Normally,
sites such as DMOZ will only display the sub directories and the
parent directory.

This probably sounds confusing. Could someone please take a look at
my site and see if it's search engine friendly, especially Google
friendly?
http://www.softwarelab.us

Thanks,
Paul

Paul wrote:

Hi,

G'day,

This probably sounds confusing. Could someone please take a look at
my site and see if it's search engine friendly, especially Google
friendly?
http://www.softwarelab.us

Well, there are no Headline tags. Change the bold tags into Headline
tags <Hx>.

You have a lot of errors in the html
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=ht...twarelab.us%2F

Make more use of the style sheet.
Use tables only for tabular data like calender.
--
Edwin van der Vaart
http://www.semi-conductor.nl/ Links to Semiconductors sites
http://www.evandervaart.nl/ Under construction

"Edwin van der Vaart" <picayunish2000 (AT) yahoo (DOT) co.uk> wrote

Paul wrote:
Hi,

G'day,

This probably sounds confusing. Could someone please take a look at
my site and see if it's search engine friendly, especially Google
friendly?
http://www.softwarelab.us

Well, there are no Headline tags. Change the bold tags into Headline
tags <Hx>.

You have a lot of errors in the html
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=ht...twarelab.us%2F

Make more use of the style sheet.
Use tables only for tabular data like calender.

Along with his recommendations I would add filling out alt tags on all
images and add more content to the title - both if used properly can add to
page rank ;-) without cheating.
TK
--
www.wejuggle2.com
Still Having a Ball




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