Hello, some SEO problems..

**Jdis** · 11-28-2007 09:05 AM

Hello everyone

First of all, congratulation !! I found tons of information on this forum.
I read a little about SEO but can't find the problem :S
My website isn't listed on any search Engine.

I am running an oscommerce store:
I installed meta contribution and here's my tags:

define('DEFAULT_META_TITLE', 'Jewelry Distributor - Your Canadian Jewelry Wholesaler');
define('DEFAULT_META_DESCRIPTION', 'We are a wholesale jewelry distributor, we work with manufacturers from China and import top quality jewelry at the lowest price you can find. Buy 100 for the price of 2! Start your home based jewelry business today reselling our products and make extra money.');
define('DEFAULT_META_KEYWORDS', 'Jewelry wholesaler, free, wholesale lots, supplier, provider, bulk, canadian distributor, huge, amazing deal, rhinestone, gold, 925, silver, fashion, bracelet, ring, full sets, necklaces, cubic zirconia, metal, stainless, titanium, platinium, china, off retail, lowest price, cz, crystal, paypal, import, jewels, jewellry, jewellery, quality, best, home based business, work at home, work from home, make money, extra cash, gift ideas');

If you find any problems in my meta, would be very helpful if you tell me.
I got the almost the same in a html file, a small article I wrote... but nothing on search engine.

Thanks you very much

**Jamieharrop** · 11-28-2007 09:17 AM

Hi Jdis.

Assuming the site you are talking about is the one in your signature, the first thing I notice is your closing </head> tag is at the very bottom of the page. Thus, enclosing your entire site content within <head></head>.

The closing "</head>" tag should be placed below your stylesheet.css line and above your <body> tag. Currently, the three lines look like this:

Code:

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="stylesheet.css">
<body marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" topmargin="0" bottommargin="0" leftmargin="0" rightmargin="0">
... your site content here ...
</head>

It should look like this...

Code:

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="stylesheet.css">
</head>
<body marginwidth="0" marginheight="0" topmargin="0" bottommargin="0" leftmargin="0" rightmargin="0">
... your site content here ...

I'm not saying that is the reason you're not appearing in search engines, but it certainly won't be helping.

**Jdis** · 11-28-2007 09:54 AM

Thanks you very much for your fast answer.
I will correct that and see if I get listed in next days... for sure it doesn't help...
Thanks you again

**Nick R** · 11-28-2007 10:51 AM

One of the strongest tools seems to me sitemaps, if you automatically build a sitemap for your site and then ping google with the updated sitemap then it seems to help a lot with indexing.

**Jamieharrop** · 11-28-2007 10:57 AM

Originally Posted by Nick R

One of the strongest tools seems to me sitemaps, if you automatically build a sitemap for your site and then ping google with the updated sitemap then it seems to help a lot with indexing.

If Nick is referring to submitting a Google XML SiteMap (very useful for getting listed, for sure!), then you will need to signup to Google Webmaster Tools. More info at https://www.google.com/webmasters/to.../en/about.html

I use this site to generate my sitemap. It's very simple, and the site includes full instructions.

**Nick R** · 11-28-2007 11:26 AM

Nick is

. The ideal solution for building sitemaps is a plugin for your script, like vbseo sitemap generator for vbulletin. That will list every available URL on your site, it doesn't have a url limit and it's fast. If you can't find a plugin though, you'll have to go with that site.