increase Google ranking

[parklane]

Hy, can anyone help me to increase the ranking of the ewbsite of my estate agency based in Mauritius called "mauritiushomes dot com"
The aim is for anyone searching for "property in mauritius" to come on our page quicker...
Pls any help would be welcome.
Thx a lot.

[els]

1. You definately need more content throughout your site. Especially on the homepage. The robots that crawl your site will read your content looking for the appropriate keywords. Many people feel that meta tag keywords are not as important as having the actual keywords incorporated on your site.

2. Your title tag should be right after your head tag. On your site, your title tag is the 6th line down from the head tag. Title tags are critical to SEO.

That is all for now. Good luck :)

Evy
ELS Virtual Solutions

[parklane]

Thanks so much ELS for your precious info. I will ask my website programer to look into this...
Have a nice day

[horatiub]

Thanks so much ELS for your precious info. I will ask my website programer to look into this...
Have a nice day
can I get an advice on my website as well?

ownchicagohome.com

thank you

[els]

Very nice site overall. Keep in mind, I am not an SEO expert, but the only thing I can see for improvement is having good alt tags attached to your images. Instead of having an image's alt tag as "logo" you could have it as "Chicago real estate." Alt tags are another way of giving the robots something to see.

Since my expertise is copywriting...there are grammar/syntax issues on most of the pages. Not many, but enough to catch my eye. You just have to decide if that is important to you.

From a marketing standpoint, the copy could be a little more persuasive and benefit focused.

Hope some of this helps :)

[E8MC]

parklane -- You have 28 code warnings, of which you've made the most common error, and that's where you didn't start your site off with the required <!DOCTYPE Declaration>.

A DOCTYPE Declaration is mandatory for most current markup languages and without one it is impossible to reliably validate a document. The DOCTYPE defines the version of the document like -- HTML 4.0.1, XHTML 1.0, 1.1, ...etc.

Now; here's the rest of your code warnings you may wish to fix:

line 1 column 1 - Warning: missing <!DOCTYPE> declaration
line 33 column 19 - Warning: <embed> is not approved by W3C
line 33 column 198 - Warning: discarding unexpected </embed>
line 163 column 5 - Warning: discarding unexpected </font>
line 14 column 1 - Warning: <script> inserting "type" attribute
line 15 column 1 - Warning: <script> inserting "type" attribute
line 26 column 31 - Warning: <img> lacks "alt" attribute
line 30 column 15 - Warning: <object> proprietary attribute value "absbottom"
line 33 column 19 - Warning: <embed> proprietary attribute value "absbottom"
line 39 column 7 - Warning: <td> proprietary attribute "background"
line 40 column 7 - Warning: <td> proprietary attribute "background"
line 43 column 7 - Warning: <td> proprietary attribute "background"
line 47 column 46 - Warning: <img> lacks "alt" attribute
line 54 column 39 - Warning: <img> lacks "alt" attribute
line 60 column 53 - Warning: <img> lacks "alt" attribute
line 65 column 1 - Warning: <script> inserting "type" attribute
line 90 column 72 - Warning: <script> inserting "type" attribute
line 114 column 51 - Warning: <script> inserting "type" attribute
line 119 column 102 - Warning: <img> lacks "alt" attribute
line 127 column 25 - Warning: <td> proprietary attribute "background"
line 128 column 25 - Warning: <img> lacks "alt" attribute
line 129 column 29 - Warning: <img> proprietary attribute value "absmiddle"
line 129 column 29 - Warning: <img> lacks "alt" attribute
line 139 column 50 - Warning: <table> proprietary attribute "height"
line 139 column 50 - Warning: <table> proprietary attribute "background"
line 153 column 36 - Warning: <img> lacks "alt" attribute
line 161 column 3 - Warning: <tr> proprietary attribute "height"
line 162 column 5 - Warning: <td> proprietary attribute "background"

[E8MC]

horatiub -- It's not bad for a template, but I'd move everything to the top of the page, since the background looks kinda funny showing above the template ... then, I'd look into fixing the following coding errors:

line 74 column 249 - Warning: replacing <p> by <br>
line 74 column 249 - Warning: inserting implicit <br>
line 74 column 249 - Warning: <br> element not empty or not closed
line 313 column 2 - Warning: <style> isn't allowed in <div> elements
line 74 column 8 - Warning: <table> proprietary attribute "height"
line 108 column 4 - Warning: <img> attribute "height" has invalid value "93.2421875"
line 114 column 4 - Warning: <img> attribute "height" has invalid value "93.1875"
line 120 column 4 - Warning: <img> attribute "height" has invalid value "109.375"
line 74 column 5 - Warning: trimming empty <p>
line 74 column 2649 - Warning: trimming empty <address>

[horatiub]

hi there,

thank for your input, but I'm not sure I understood what you meant by moving everything to the top of the page etc..

Can you explain me in detail?

Thanks
horatiub -- It's not bad for a template, but I'd move everything to the top of the page, since the background looks kinda funny showing above the template ... then, I'd look into fixing the following coding errors:

line 74 column 249 - Warning: replacing <p> by <br>
line 74 column 249 - Warning: inserting implicit <br>
line 74 column 249 - Warning: <br> element not empty or not closed
line 313 column 2 - Warning: <style> isn't allowed in <div> elements
line 74 column 8 - Warning: <table> proprietary attribute "height"
line 108 column 4 - Warning: <img> attribute "height" has invalid value "93.2421875"
line 114 column 4 - Warning: <img> attribute "height" has invalid value "93.1875"
line 120 column 4 - Warning: <img> attribute "height" has invalid value "109.375"
line 74 column 5 - Warning: trimming empty <p>
line 74 column 2649 - Warning: trimming empty <address>

[E8MC]

horatiub -- If you didn't design the original site, and don't know how to control your site using CSS, I can see why you wouldn't understand what I'm talking about.

The parameters I'm speaking about are in your CSS file.

[horatiub]

horatiub -- If you didn't design the original site, and don't know how to control your site using CSS, I can see why you wouldn't understand what I'm talking about.

The parameters I'm speaking about are in your CSS file.

actually it wasn't me that designed. I hired somebody to do it.

Since then, I was able to make a few changes myself, including the CSS file(changed some fonts, color, etc).

I will pass the info to the designer and see what he can do.

Thank you

[E8MC]

Yes, I know you didn't design it based on your questions -- I've already seen your CSS code; tell the designer it's in the relative positioning.

[horatiub]

Yes, I know you didn't design it based on your questions -- I've already seen your CSS code; tell the designer it's in the relative positioning.

Ok, I will.

Thanks again

[parklane]

Thanks E8MC for your precious help. Will copy that to my webmaster...

[parklane]

Hi E8MC,
my webmaster managed to do thye following changes :
line 1 column 1 - Warning: missing <!DOCTYPE> declaration
line 26 column 31 - Warning: <img> lacks "alt" attribute
line 47 column 46 - Warning: <img> lacks "alt" attribute
line 54 column 39 - Warning: <img> lacks "alt" attribute
line 60 column 53 - Warning: <img> lacks "alt" attribute
line 119 column 102 - Warning: <img> lacks "alt" attribute
line 128 column 25 - Warning: <img> lacks "alt" attribute
line 129 column 29 - Warning: <img> proprietary attribute value "absmiddle"
line 129 column 29 - Warning: <img> lacks "alt" attribute
line 153 column 36 - Warning: <img> lacks "alt" attribute

Is it possible you tell me what tool you are using to get those results. If it's confidential, you can email me on philippe@parklane-mu.com
Many thanks.

[E8MC]

Parklane -- I checked your site again, and you still have the following 21 code warnings to fix:

line 34 column 19 - Warning: <embed> is not approved by W3C
line 34 column 198 - Warning: discarding unexpected </embed>
line 165 column 5 - Warning: discarding unexpected </font>
line 15 column 1 - Warning: <script> inserting "type" attribute
line 16 column 1 - Warning: <script> inserting "type" attribute
line 31 column 15 - Warning: <object> proprietary attribute value "absbottom"
line 34 column 19 - Warning: <embed> proprietary attribute value "absbottom"
line 40 column 7 - Warning: <td> proprietary attribute "background"
line 41 column 7 - Warning: <td> proprietary attribute "background"
line 44 column 7 - Warning: <td> proprietary attribute "background"
line 61 column 53 - Warning: <img> lacks "alt" attribute
line 66 column 1 - Warning: <script> inserting "type" attribute
line 91 column 72 - Warning: <script> inserting "type" attribute
line 115 column 51 - Warning: <script> inserting "type" attribute
line 120 column 102 - Warning: <img> lacks "alt" attribute
line 128 column 25 - Warning: <td> proprietary attribute "background"
line 131 column 25 - Warning: <img> proprietary attribute value "absmiddle"
line 141 column 50 - Warning: <table> proprietary attribute "height"
line 141 column 50 - Warning: <table> proprietary attribute "background"
line 163 column 3 - Warning: <tr> proprietary attribute "height"
line 164 column 5 - Warning: <td> proprietary attribute "background"

The program many Webmasters use to see the errors is called "HTML Tidy".

[EmpireApts]

This is what helped me improved my ratins and client base.

1.) Advertise individual apartments/houses on Craigslist and News Papers.

2.) Google Ad Words are OK but not necessary. I use them just to get the word around. I still havent had a client who saw me on google.

3.) Link Sharing (local businesses only) works amazing. But will cost some $$$.


There is more to it. So if you need help. Let me know. It gets complicated when it comes to real estate.

Alexander Mirvis
Vice President/Co-Founder
Empire Apartments Inc.
empire-apartments dot us

[jennsellsfast]

Hello ELS, I thought search engines could not see picture tags. I guess I was wrong!

[spjain81]

Hy, can anyone help me to increase the ranking of the ewbsite of my estate agency based in Mauritius called "mauritiushomes dot com"
The aim is for anyone searching for "property in mauritius" to come on our page quicker...
Pls any help would be welcome.
Thx a lot.

You have very little content on your site. You need to have an unique content on your site and genrate quality links to your site to target any search engine.

[Estate-Zone.com]

can I get an advice on my website as well?

ownchicagohome.com

thank you

Hi Christina

First your site is relatively new and as such will need to build trust with the Google search engine which could take up to 6 months from when the site was first live online.

Next your domain is registered for one year. Google has noted in a May 2003 patent release that most of the sites that spammed their index were domains registered for only one year. Extend domain registration to 5 or 10 years. Just like any commercial property lease

Next I would rid the <title> tag of commas...those are a waste and are diluting the keyword weight and density in the tag.

Next the meta keywords tag has some keyword repeats which should not be there:

"real estate agent chicago,Chicago illinois real estate,real estate,

This can be seen as spamming by some search engines though not many use the tag any longer. However Yahoo does use it to match to page content to fight spam.

You also should have a sitemap for your visitors though there are not so many links
people would get lost. Something to consider.

Other than that try to get some one way anchor text links to your site.

Hope this helps

[klrpnda]

Fixing css code errors is a good start. But if you want your website to rank higher in Google you need to get more content and more links. The more links your site has the more “important” it is in the eyes of search engines. Find websites that have similar content like yours and link to them. Then ask that specific website owner if he/she would like to link to you. If they do then its great if they don’t take their link of your site.

[EmpireApts]

Fixing css code errors is a good start. But if you want your website to rank higher in Google you need to get more content and more links. The more links your site has the more “important” it is in the eyes of search engines. Find websites that have similar content like yours and link to them. Then ask that specific website owner if he/she would like to link to you. If they do then its great if they don’t take their link of your site.

I have been trying to do that but for some reason no one wants to do that.
I advertise all over the place too. On google, I am ranking at: 822,000th place. I wish I could link with other sites.

[parklane]

thanks a lot for taking time to reply. Your remarks will be helpful.:)

[abrahamchaffin]

The main thing I've found to boost Google Ranking is to have links to your site from other sites that have the same content type. For instance, if you want to be seen more when people search for real estate in a certain area then you need to be linked from websites that deal with that certain area. Like your local chamber of commerce, local website directories, etc. It also helps to have links to them on your page. That shows what they have on their site is important to your site.
Hope this helps.:)

[parklane]

Thx for taking time to reply. Surely it will help, even though being on the island of Mauritius, it changes the context compared to being in the USA.
Thx again for the effort.

[naix77]

That is a good looking website. However you should submit it to as many directories and search engines as possible. Most importantly, you should submit it to real estate related sites to generate a better pagerank. The more pages out there are linking to your site, the better position in google.com you will achieve. Also, you might want to try to submit some of your most important properties to fusedworld.com and place a link back to your page.

[parklane]

Thx very much for your advise. Very much appreciated. Best wishes for 2007

[cz0v3q]

How long did it take to fix all your web problems out of your website?

Just curious

[rnield]

I really suggest using the content manager called Joomla. It allows you to worry just about the content and not have to worry about the programming side of things.

[schoolinfo]

Submit your web site to Open Directory or Yahoo directory.

[simonsays]

The instructions about the title and header.YES!!
don't know about html use dreamweaver 8 go to snapfiles there you can demo an editor if you need one for 30 days free. I have read that having your domain name reflect your business catagory will put you in a better position the lets say batman.com helping with supermans work. Whereas batman.com has batman accessories. Got it?

Text and format is all the engines see not that cool sunset or shiney mansion. Look at your competetors website after you open the page click on view then source and see how they typed their page to rank on that engine. Do a few searches for html editor. or adweb8 is a great free resource at the same snapfiles.com

[AgentServer]

Your best Free resource you can use is http://www.AgentsExchangeLinks.com

That is the best and fastest way you will increase your Google rankings. I'm sorry to say that the HTML code you are fixing has such a minimal effect on yur rankings that it's somtimes not even worth fixing.

I'm not saying you shouldn't fix it though ;) hehe.... When you do your visitors will be able to load your website faster then before.

My 2 cents.

[simonsays]

I am sorry what is the fastest way? (you were referring to)

[HHI Golf Guy]

Your best Free resource you can use is http://www.AgentsExchangeLinks.com

That is the best and fastest way you will increase your Google rankings

This site is not even in the Google index:)

But I need to cut the site owner a break - this domain was registered only last week.

The fact is that there are very few directories that will help you with Google rankings, unless that site has been around enough to become a trusted authority site or hub site. The more poor quality (low TrustRank) links that you point at a new site, the more time it will take to get out of the Google Sandbox. Choose your links wisely when you can.

The best links for your site are those with high TrustRank. In laymans terms, sites that have been around for a while and have many links pointing to them. Do some reseacrh on TrustRank, Authority Sites, and Hub sites, then begin your linking strategy.

[simonsays]

appreciate the heads up will pay attention to that.

[HHI Golf Guy]

Hai

Can anyone suggest me
how i can take out my websites pages from google supplemental results.

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You first need to determine why your pages are in the supplemental index,

[AgentServer]

This site is not even in the Google index:)

But I need to cut the site owner a break - this domain was registered only last week.

The fact is that there are very few directories that will help you with Google rankings, unless that site has been around enough to become a trusted authority site or hub site. The more poor quality (low TrustRank) links that you point at a new site, the more time it will take to get out of the Google Sandbox. Choose your links wisely when you can.

The best links for your site are those with high TrustRank. In laymans terms, sites that have been around for a while and have many links pointing to them. Do some reseacrh on TrustRank, Authority Sites, and Hub sites, then begin your linking strategy.

The website is actually very new, however we're not starting a website without any resources. :)

We have over 20,000 real estate agents who are part of atleast one of the services we provide. Our goal will be to get every single one of those agents who have a website to get into that network and start networking/exchanging links.

Our network will remain private. When I say private I mean we will not allow search engines to crawl our network to find out who is part of it because we simply do not want them to know who is exchanging links through our service. We have also made our network private to eliminate any spam websites from joining our network thus providing our members with quality link partners.

[PaulEvans]

contextual linking is very effective

[simonsays]

con·tex·tu·al (k…n-tµks"ch›-…l, k¼n-) adj. Of, involving, or depending on a context. --con·tex"tu·al·ly adv.

[Nu-Home-Source-Realty]

my site is 3 or 4 months old and is number 8 on google for Fort worth tx real estate

[PaulEvans]

Thats excellent, congratulations!

[www.OxfordTopAgent.com]

That really is impressive. I have had my site for 1 month and some phrases i come up 1st page others 8th page. Can you tell me how you did that so quickly and if you used a SEO company?

[Nu-Home-Source-Realty]

i did it all my self, alot of forum posts to learn and alot of directotory submits and link exchanges.

[www.OxfordTopAgent.com]

Thats pretty much what I am doing. Now when you say Directory Posts, did you pay for them? What directories do you recommend?

[Nu-Home-Source-Realty]

i have a guy that does that for me, i couldnt tell you. he does 500 for 85 dollars

[www.OxfordTopAgent.com]

So he will link me up to 500 sites that are relevant to real estate for only $85? Can you tell me who you went to? I would love to do business with him.

[TrimarkProperties]

I'd recommend researching your keywords some more... ask people who are in your target market to sit at a computer and try to find property for sale in your town. Then watch them.

For instance, they might be putting in "houses for sale in mauritus" or "mauritus houses for sale" more than property-- and you'll need to make a list and research quantity of searches and then begin to SEO around the top keywords.