Re: What Happened to my Site's Google Listing?

"Mike Schumann" <mike-nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> The content is:
>
> 1. Our locations and hours.
> 2. A list of the vendors that we carry, along with links to their web
> sites, where available.
> 3. A description of our style (essentially a scanned image of our store
> brochure).
>
> The reason we use frames, is so that if you click to one of our
> manufacturer's, you stay within the frame, instead of totally disappearing
> off of our site.
>
> We certainly aren't intentionally trying to spam google. I'm starting to
> wonder if maybe their engine hasn't blacklisted us somehow, or if my
> problems are related to the way our frames work.
>
> Any suggestions would be appreciated.

Mike, it's evident that your intentions are good.
Yet it's also evident that you folks are lacking in the basics.

REGARDING SEARCH ENGINES:
Great that you've got links to relevant sites and such. BUT, when I say
content, I mean actual words, letters and text. Hey, it's not an awful
looking site at all. But you need actual text. Not just photos. It'd do you
well to add in text below (or above?) those images (or someplace within).
by the way, take a look at:
http://searchenginewatch.com/webmasters/article.php/2167901
and do a further search on "Frames Search Engines"

FRONTPAGE:
Before even looking at the source for your page(s) I can tell already
someone created these Page(s) in FrontPage. I can almost smell it from a
mile away. Not entirely a problem but you might want to wait for someone
else to chime in about any other problems regarding this.

OTHER FRAME ISSUES:
Aside from the above, may I suggest you do a search for "Frames Suck".
Usually that'll give you a roster of sites that'll explain the mistakes
often incurred when creating framed sites. Again, I'm for frames, only if
carried out correctly.....Not that I remember how..............
:-D








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Relevant Pages

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