new site critique
Articus
my first real site:
www.abstractartwork.com
thanks
Bob Carrick
> As a newbie, an takers to help me take my work to the next level.
No image alt tags, no meta tags nothing. Stuff you need if you want decent
search engine results.
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The old fashioned markup is getting in the way of your seo efforts.
Investigate css (cascading style sheets). First off replace the font tags
and then the tables with suitable style suggestions.
btw: nice work (the paintings)
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Foxglove54321
>> As a newbie, an takers to help me take my work to the next level.
>> This is my first real site:
>> www.abstractartwork.com
Link popularity is the key to doing well in the search engines. Because your
site is about images, you have an asset that most don't. You can allow
webmasters to
use one of your images to brighten their site up, in return for a link back to
your site from a good page, using the text that you specify.
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Another comment to add to the rest (love some of the art though) the .dwt
tag page name is not a standard, and this would cause you problems as well
if you are spidered.. download opera.com browser aside from it being one of
the best and fastest browsers around it is great for checking that you page
works... it is the closets you can get to a normal browsing experience lynx
(text broswer).
I tried some of the internal pages and opera did not display them as a web
page, more just raw code. If you rename this and your links to htm or html
this should solve that problem.
In w3c the can not even validate your page
http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.abstractartwork.com%2FTemplates%2Fabstractpaintingpage2.dwt&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=%28detect+automatically%29
Here is a great validator for CSS
http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/validator-uri.html
Regards
And good painitng
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Eric Johnston
in search engines and Google however:
I suggest:
Read through all the html code using "notepad" and edit out all the rubbish.
Anything do do with "Instance" is best deleted. Most are remarked out
anyway but they confuse the reader.
Add heading on every page using <h1> or <h2> tag etc. Use heading words
that are relevent.
Add art artwork artist us usa america paint into the text on home page.
Add abstract art artwork to statement page
Add abstract art artwork to privacy page
On the index page you have:
<title>abstract paintings |abstractartwork</title>
Get rid of the vertical line character.
Amend to read like so:
<title>Abstract paintings by your name - abstractartwork.com </title>
also add:
<meta name="description" content="Modern abstract original artwork paintings
by American artist: Your name">
The home page only shows 5 pictures at a time. Why not 10 or 15 on one
page, would make it easier to browse through and remember which ones you
like.
Every painting should have an alt tag similar to as follows:
src="http://www.satsig.net/johnst02.jpg" alt="Johnston Tartan" width="132"
height="64"
Replace words "Johnston Tartan" with your text like so:
"Abstract acrylic painting by Your name: Red Fire"
Do this for every picture. This is important since many people will find
your site by image searches.
On artist statement it would be nice to know the name of the artist.
Problems: Privacy page is missing navigation link at the bottom, same with
email form.
Navigation links. It would be better to use a strict star stucture with all
pages having a "return to abstract artwork by artist: Your Name home page"
link at the bottom. This would concentrate PR in the home page instead of
diluting it evenly over all pages. Note that I suggest "Return to abstract
artwork by artist: Your Name home page" as the link, i.e. 10 words actually
in the link.
On the home page the text of the link to painting resources link should be
in small letters and not bold. This reduces the proportion of PR
transferred to the painting resources page. There are so many outgoing
links on the painting resources page you will send out most of the PR from
this page and send back very little to your home page.
Best regards, Eric
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> I like your paintings.. Nice little site. Needs a bit of work to work
well
> in search engines and Google however:
>
> I suggest:
>
> Read through all the html code using "notepad" and edit out all the
rubbish.
> Anything do do with "Instance" is best deleted. Most are remarked out
> anyway but they confuse the reader.
A better program (note is limited on size) is Textpad it also has some HTML
short codes...
www.textpad.com
Or for the serious coder you use's vi command line but sometimes has to fall
into windows try VIM for windows lovely (that is if you can get excited
about a text / coding program)
http://www.vim.org/ http://www.vim.org/ its so good I gave it twice....
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<eric.j...@blueyonder.co.uk> wrote:
>On the home page the text of the link to painting resources link should be
>in small letters and not bold. This reduces the proportion of PR
>transferred to the painting resources page.
Hi,
the above isn't true, PR is transferred via links only, doesn't matter
if you surround them by bold, italics, h1 etc... makes no difference
to the PR. Now it *may* make a difference to how Google considers the
importance of the link.
So a link to a privacy page (less important as won't contain real
content) shouldn't be wrapped in bold, h1 etc.. as is suggests the
link is important. Whilst the links to the home page (should be very
important, filled with content) can be wrapped in bold etc.. (I go for
H1or H2 if I can). Bottom of ever shop page of our site has this-
<div align="center"><h2><i><a href="http://www.adultlingerieuk.com"
target="_blank" title="Sexy Lingerie">Sexy Lingerie</a>, Bondage Gear
and Sex Toys <br>from your one stop online <a
href="http://www.adultlingerieuk.com/sex_toys/enter.html"
target="_blank" title="Sex Shop">Sex Shop</a></i></h2></div>
This assumes Google cares what surrounds the link, not looked for any
research on this but it makes sense that it should.
BTW to the original poster looked at your sites home page and it had a
meta tag outside the head.
David
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