[Rοb]

Hi all,

I am looking for advice regarding a web site and it's (potential) search engine rankings.

The site is targeting potential Sky Digital customers (UK) and thus needs to rank highly with certain keyphrases such as "join sky", "order sky", sky installation", "sky digital" etc

The site url is http://www.joinsky.net

I have considered adding a subdomain e.g order.joinsky.net, would that help?

Anyway, just wondered if there are any experts around that could offer some feedback/tips relating to the current code and how it can be improved.

It is all very basic so i am sure there is a lot to be done!

Thanks!

[bfarber]

It looked relatively good to me - lots of meta tags + proper html.

The FAQ page seems largely javascript driven, which spiders have a hard time following.

Also, seems a few of the pages are just redirects to mysky.etc, etc. Why not just link to the pages directly? Not sure how this affects SEO though tbh.

[UBERHOST.NET]

Brandon's points are correct; redirects are not a good thing in this case.

Some helpful links:

http://www.selfseo.com/
http://www.linkpopularity.com/
http://www.sitemaps.org/protocol.php
http://www.copyblogg...se-web-traffic/
http://www.seomoz.or...ne-optimization
http://www.ssw.com.a...leRankings.aspx
http://www.webcredib...#where-keywords
http://www.seobook.c...es/001792.shtml
http://www.linkbuild...ts_to_beat.html
http://tropicalseo.c...lemental-index/
http://www.clickz.co...ml?page=3412591

[Rοb]

Hi, thanks for the feedback!

I have removed the FAQ's Javascript, i had originally intended to include <noscript> tags, but at least for now the links are "static" and the content easily read.

Regarding the redirects, i have added rel="nofollow" tags to the links in question, that should prevent any issues with (the main) search robots...

[bfarber]

re="nofollow" doesn't prevent bots from following them. It tells bots that you can't verify the link and don't want to "promote" the site basically.

[Pⅇter]

having skydigital in your url would help massively though for rankings purposes, on the downside a subdomain as skydigital.joinsky.com might not look that good...

[Rοb]

@Brandon: I was under the impression that by not verifying the URL it couldn't be looked upon as a bad thing by Google.

@Peter: Yes I'll be making a "sky-digital" page with plenty of key-word rich content for Google to gobble up.

I am still very interested to know about sub-domains and how they affect rankings.

I suppose time will tell. I'll keep doing the searches and see what happens!

Thanks for the replies

[Rοb]

Regarding the redirects (and robots), one possible solution might be to make the url something like.

CODE

http://www.mysite.com/redirect/redirecturl.php

Then in robots.txt:

CODE

User-agent: *
Disallow: /redirect/

Would that help do you think?