Google ranking

[PrivateInvestigator]

Does the open site project still hold weight with Google? usually if you get listed in that dircetory you're guarenteed a lot of googlebot's time and they us the description there rather than your meta tags.

[OldWelshGuy]

I assume you mean the Open Directory project (ODP or DMOZ. yep ggole gives it a bit of weight, and it will as you say use their description AND title in their listings, unless you don't want them to that is.

http://www.oldwelshguy.co.uk/web-mar...-in-google-now isntructions on how to stop them doing this.

[Azz]

Originally Posted by OldWelshGuy

I assume you mean the Open Directory project (ODP or DMOZ. yep ggole gives it a bit of weight, and it will as you say use their description AND title in their listings, unless you don't want them to that is.

Old Welsh Guy The Google Expert Get rid of the DMOZ description in Google NOW isntructions on how to stop them doing this.

Hey,
Just wondered if you had chance to check my site again?

Ta,
Aaron

[OldWelshGuy]

Only quickly, what is wrong with the repairs page? It isn't displaying properly. The home page inexing issue is still there though. I take it you have not done the HTACCESS correction for index.html etc?

Why do you have 'need help with your PC' at the front of your title on the index page?

[Azz]

Originally Posted by OldWelshGuy

Only quickly, what is wrong with the repairs page? It isn't displaying properly. The home page inexing issue is still there though. I take it you have not done the HTACCESS correction for index.html etc?

Why do you have 'need help with your PC' at the front of your title on the index page?

Im not sure what HTACCESS is thats why. What is it and where can I find it, what do I need to change?

I will get rid of the need help with your pc bit if it causes problems?

Thanks,

Aaron

[OldWelshGuy]

OK apologies as your a noob

1. leave the htaccess alone if you don't know what you are doing. Google has canolicalisation issues with your site eg
it is treating

domain.com/index.html as a different page to domain.com/ which is fine. But if you type in your domain name into the url (I can't use links as the way this forum is set-up it is automatically parsing links so type in yourdimain.com/ and look at the cached version . no cache right? Then do a site:yourdomain.com search and click on your homepage link. (same as the one we just typed in through the browser) this is cached! domain.com/index.html is not cached either.

There are som canonical issues that need to be addressed, but unfortunately I really don't have the time to help you as it might well be a couple of hours work!

With regard the text at the start of the page title. search engines use prominance in the title as part of the ranking algo. So it makes sense for your target key words to appear at the start of the title! This will also result in higher click through rates in the Serps, as the searcher will see the exact phrase they typed in made bold in your title, and are more likely to click on it, also the snippet should include the description we used!

[Garcia Coder]

firwst , could you please let us know your website address. Dependson that we can analyse the page rank.

[KingPin]

Originally Posted by Garcia Coder

firwst , could you please let us know your website address. Dependson that we can analyse the page rank.

If you bothered reading the thread I think the OP did tell everyone what the URL was.

PageRank has nothing to do with this.

Read before commenting.

KP

[johnafrankllin]

I'll suggest one more thing. You should redirect your
needhelpwithyourpc.co.uk to
Need help with your PC? Computer repairs in Birmingham, Solihull and surrounding areas.

For this you can use this code (Must wait sometime to reviewed by others too )
Step 1: Log into your ftp account
Step 2: download the .htaccess file on local machine
Step 3: Open .htaccess in notepad or editplus
Step 4: Paste the below code

RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.needhelpwithyourpc\.co\.uk [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.needhelpwithyourpc.co.uk/$1 [L,R=301]

Step 5: save the .htaccess file
Step 6: upload .htaccess file where you downloaded from

Result: When you or someone else will open your site by typing needhelpwithyourpc.co.uk your site will open with a www. prefix

Since google treats domain.com and www. domain .com (plz ignore spaces) as two different entities so it will eliminate that issue and hence there will be no sharing of link value occur.

Please correct someone if I am wrong

[Azz]

Originally Posted by johnafrankllin

I'll suggest one more thing. You should redirect your
needhelpwithyourpc.co.uk to
Need help with your PC? Computer repairs in Birmingham, Solihull and surrounding areas.

For this you can use this code (Must wait sometime to reviewed by others too )
Step 1: Log into your ftp account
Step 2: download the .htaccess file on local machine
Step 3: Open .htaccess in notepad or editplus
Step 4: Paste the below code

Step 5: save the .htaccess file
Step 6: upload .htaccess file where you downloaded from

Result: When you or someone else will open your site by typing needhelpwithyourpc.co.uk your site will open with a www. prefix

Since google treats domain.com and www. domain .com (plz ignore spaces) as two different entities so it will eliminate that issue and hence there will be no sharing of link value occur.

Please correct someone if I am wrong

Many thanks for that. Do I replace what is in .htaccess or add the above?

I am now on the first page for a few of my key words, so would like to thank all who helped especially OldWelshGuy.

Thanks
Aaron