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Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2010 10:23 am

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Hello all, this is my fist post and I am still pretty new to this so apologies if any of this has been covered.

I am following the seo in practice guide which is really helpful but there are a couple of things I would like to ask if possible?

My site seanalexandermagic.com dosen't have all its pages listed in google and I am currently trying to rectify this with the use of PowerSuite. Is there anything I can do to get google to list the updated pages other than submitting the sitemap and waiting?

Also there seems to be a lot of errors on my pages which seem to be the case with all my competitors - I use Rapid Weaver to build my site and I just can't seem to rectify the errors. Are these errors down to the templates or software that I am using - as everything is pretty much WYSIWYG design mode with no real html coding? Could these errors be the cause of some pages not being listed or is it simply a case of all the other SEO elements?

Lastly the software that I am using creates an automatic photo gallery with individual pages (of which I have very limited control over) which google has listed many of - do I want google to list these - is that a good thing? If not how to I prevent google from seeing them?

I would very much appreciate any advice or feedback anyone has to offer. Apologies if any of these questions seem obvious, as mentioned I am still finding my feet with SEO.


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Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2010 10:51 am

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Also in the seo best practice guide it suggests to create 5 landing pages. I have several services I offer which I plan to use as landing pages for those specific terms but should I create my home page as a generalized page for all categories?


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Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2010 12:55 pm

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Hi Sean! 8)

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My site seanalexandermagic.com dosen't have all its pages listed in google and I am currently trying to rectify this with the use of PowerSuite. Is there anything I can do to get google to list the updated pages other than submitting the sitemap and waiting?


You need to make sure that the already indexed pages link to the ones not listed yet, so you can put link to the unindexed page from other pages of your site.

Also to speed up the indexation process you can put link to the pages not indexed yet on some frequently crawled locations, like social bookmarking sites, twitter - they will get indexed faster.

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Could these errors be the cause of some pages not being listed or is it simply a case of all the other SEO elements?


If they are some serious errors and warnings they might prevent your site from ranking very high, but if they are minor - it's fine. As for the indexation - normally it should not be influenced by that.

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which google has listed many of - do I want google to list these - is that a good thing? If not how to I prevent google from seeing them?


It's fine to have all these pages indexed, as long as they do not have duplicate page elements- like titles or content.

You can always restrict indexation of these pages with the help of the robots.txt file that you put in your server's root. Please read more about that here:

www.robotstxt.org

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Also in the seo best practice guide it suggests to create 5 landing pages. I have several services I offer which I plan to use as landing pages for those specific terms but should I create my home page as a generalized page for all categories?


5 was an example number because all thekeywords were split into 5 groups, you can have more or less, any way you wish. It's better to optimize the homepage for some 3-5 keywords as well, so that it actually works for you (a generalized page would not work that well as it would not be dealing with a certain keyword in the "eyes" of the bots). You can optimize the homepage for your main keywords.

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Posted: Fri Sep 03, 2010 12:08 am

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Thank you for your reply.

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You need to make sure that the already indexed pages link to the ones not listed yet, so you can put link to the unindexed page from other pages of your site.

Also to speed up the indexation process you can put link to the pages not indexed yet on some frequently crawled locations, like social bookmarking sites, twitter - they will get indexed faster.


When you say place a link on twitter - how do you mean? Do you mean post a tweet with a link to that page? Or is there somewhere else I should tweet?

The photo gallery pages have duplicate page names - Photo Gallery (if you look at my site seanalexandermagic.com/photogallery.html) when you click on each picture it opens that picture on its own page which has been generated using the photo gallery element in the software. It doesn't allow me to individually change each picture page?!? What would your advice be?

WIth regards to the errors there are 19 on my home page!?! I have copied some below - are they bad?



Line 50, Column 39: duplicate specification of attribute "type"
<script type="text/javascript" type="text/javascript">

You have specified an attribute more than once. Example: Using the "height" attribute twice on the same "img" tag.

Line 105, Column 168: required attribute "alt" not specified
… on twitter" width="150" height="90" /> <br /><!-- sidebar content you enter i…

The attribute given above is required for an element that you've used, but you have omitted it. For instance, in most HTML and XHTML document types the "type" attribute is required on the "script" element and the "alt" attribute is required for the "img" element.

Typical values for type are type="text/css" for <style> and type="text/javascript" for <script>.

Line 107, Column 8: end tag for "a" omitted, but OMITTAG NO was specified
</div><!-- End sidebar content -->

You may have neglected to close an element, or perhaps you meant to "self-close" an element, that is, ending it with "/>" instead of ">".

Line 105, Column 4: start tag was here
<a href="http://twitter.com/S_AlexanderMagi"><img src="http://www.TwitterBut…
Line 206, Column 8: element "center" undefined
<center>

You have used the element named above in your document, but the document type you are using does not define an element of that name. This error is often caused by:

incorrect use of the "Strict" document type with a document that uses frames (e.g. you must use the "Frameset" document type to get the "<frameset>" element),
by using vendor proprietary extensions such as "<spacer>" or "<marquee>" (this is usually fixed by using CSS to achieve the desired effect instead).
by using upper-case tags in XHTML (in XHTML attributes and elements must be all lower-case).
Line 207, Column 242: there is no attribute "src"
…ss" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/CbpdYiUPKyw?fs…

You have used the attribute named above in your document, but the document type you are using does not support that attribute for this element. This error is often caused by incorrect use of the "Strict" document type with a document that uses frames (e.g. you must use the "Transitional" document type to get the "target" attribute), or by using vendor proprietary extensions such as "marginheight" (this is usually fixed by using CSS to achieve the desired effect instead).

This error may also result if the element itself is not supported in the document type you are using, as an undefined element will have no supported attributes; in this case, see the element-undefined error message for further information.

How to fix: check the spelling and case of the element and attribute, (Remember XHTML is all lower-case) and/or check that they are both allowed in the chosen document type, and/or use CSS instead of this attribute. If you received this error when using the <embed> element to incorporate flash media in a Web page, see the FAQ item on valid flash.

Line 207, Column 304: there is no attribute "type"
…v/CbpdYiUPKyw?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscr…

You have used the attribute named above in your document, but the document type you are using does not support that attribute for this element. This error is often caused by incorrect use of the "Strict" document type with a document that uses frames (e.g. you must use the "Transitional" document type to get the "target" attribute), or by using vendor proprietary extensions such as "marginheight" (this is usually fixed by using CSS to achieve the desired effect instead).

This error may also result if the element itself is not supported in the document type you are using, as an undefined element will have no supported attributes; in this case, see the element-undefined error message for further information.

How to fix: check the spelling and case of the element and attribute, (Remember XHTML is all lower-case) and/or check that they are both allowed in the chosen document type, and/or use CSS instead of this attribute. If you received this error when using the <embed> element to incorporate flash media in a Web page, see the FAQ item on valid flash.

Line 207, Column 354: there is no attribute "allowscriptaccess"
…/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="3…

You have used the attribute named above in your document, but the document type you are using does not support that attribute for this element. This error is often caused by incorrect use of the "Strict" document type with a document that uses frames (e.g. you must use the "Transitional" document type to get the "target" attribute), or by using vendor proprietary extensions such as "marginheight" (this is usually fixed by using CSS to achieve the desired effect instead).

This error may also result if the element itself is not supported in the document type you are using, as an undefined element will have no supported attributes; in this case, see the element-undefined error message for further information.

How to fix: check the spelling and case of the element and attribute, (Remember XHTML is all lower-case) and/or check that they are both allowed in the chosen document type, and/or use CSS instead of this attribute. If you received this error when using the <embed> element to incorporate flash media in a Web page, see the FAQ item on valid flash.


Many thanks for your time and advice.

Regards



Sean


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Posted: Thu Sep 09, 2010 10:21 am

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When you say place a link on twitter - how do you mean? Do you mean post a tweet with a link to that page?


Yes, I meant just twitting links to pages that are not indexed, it might help indexation:

http://www.webmasterworld.com/google/4131659.htm

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/using-twitte ... indexation

As for the validation errors - the first ones are not serious and with the other ones please try re-validating your site as "transitional HTML" as it suggests - these issues won't be regarded as errors at all.

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Posted: Tue Sep 14, 2010 12:53 pm

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thanx for reply !


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Posted: Sat Oct 09, 2010 5:22 pm

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Great suggestions, but what I find works great is to use a sitemap and add that to your google webmaster account. Then you can let google fetch the sitemap and it will crawl all pages.

Also if you use the webmaster tools:
http://www.google.com/webmasters/tools/
you can see if they found any errors on your pages.

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Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2010 3:16 pm

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Also in SEO best practices manual gives the impression of creating 5 landing pages.


That was just an example. Basically you can have as many landing pages as you need, optimizing each page for some 3-5 closely related keywords, that way you'll achieve best results.

And yes, you can create the main page that will contain all categories on it.

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