reseller - 11:55 pm on Dec 4, 2006 (gmt 0)

Hi Folks,

For one reason or the other, site owners are more than happy to pay big $ for web designers and programmers to create what they see (or rather think) great sites. And site owners do celebrate the day when those sites go live.

The same story repeat itself when sites are redesigned or migrate to new platforms.

Then weeks and months pass and the same site owners notice that mighty Google wouldn't index more than few pages of those sites. And they notice too that the amount of traffic they have been expected wouldn't show up. And they realize at that moment that something must went wrong.
Sometimes those merry web designers and programmers tell the site owner, don't worry... nothing wrong with your site... its Google which has been broken for sometimes now :-)

Mostly, its only then those kind site owners call for the assistance of a SEO Specialist to clean the mess which web designers and programmers left behind ;-)

And you would be surprised what the SEO Specialists might find at such sites:

- no robots.txt files
- sites not crawlable
- titles and metatags problems
- duplicate contents
- no sitemaps
- redirect codes problems
- etc...etc...

I just wonder, why site owners don't "incorporate" SEO Specialists from the beginning as part of the site building / site migration team to be sure that their sites would be "search engine friendly" too?