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Hello Rachael

I was a little misleading when I mentioned I was getting a PR of 2-3 for the PRODUCT pages, I am getting a PR of 2-3 for the CATEGORY pages, none of the product pages are ranked (yet).

The main page has a PR of 4.

Mark Bowles

Hello Rachael

Well the first step i took was to make sure that the category pages, which use the SEO module from aatecservices, was accessable from the home page.

The home page was heaverly optimised, making sure the meta tags were set up correctly and choosing 3 main keywords for the whole site (quite a lot of work here as it is a big site consisting of 95 pages).

Use ALT text for the first 3 images on the page, I suggest using the same text as the graphic and some text from your subheadings and other headings and text from the first paragraph.

The next step was to get quality sites similar to my site to link to the main page with similar content as this helps with the PageRank, I used WebCEO to find and send emails but the best method by far is to find some brochures in my case relating to visitor attractions in Cornwall and contact them by email- I had a good response with this.

My other task was to make sure that the HTML was correct and I am now in the process of converting other pages to standard HTML instead of using the HTML user pages in the cart as you can not adjust the meta tags for each page.

I have set up an HTML site map page (NOT an HTML user page) which is linked to all the pages on the site via a text link and added the main links to the bottom of each page throughout the site.

I will let you know if the results of all these changes in the next few months.

Mark Bowles
Cornweb

Awesome advice - thank you!

Not quite sure, really.  Are the search terms for which you're ranked common terms?  You seem to be in a bit of a niche market... how much business is to be expected?  One thing I did notice is that in Firefox, the submit function on your brochure order doesn't work correctly - there are no pictures, just six blank squares.  That's certainly not helping anything for FF users.  Beyond that though, I'm afraid I don't know enough about your industry to be of much help, sorry.

Hello rachael

I have viewed the site using Firefox with no problems with the graphics you described.

The site is a directory for travel, tourism in North Cornwall (UK) and it is difficult to get good placements with certain keywords due to still competition.

I need to look and see if there is a solution around this problem.

Mark Bowles
Cornweb

PR 2-4 is great!
However, I wouldn't go by PR alone. It's only a guideline.

For the true test, you'll need to determine where your site ranks in SE's with your important keywords. This isn't quick and easy to do, but you can find some tools to do some of the work for you.

And, do more statistics such as ROI (e.g., number of sales per visits, etc.).

The rest is up to you. Visit some SEO forums for hints.
Google changes their algorithm once in a while (they just did), so the target keeps moving.

             The Best Advertising Won't Sell a Bad Product.