caz338
msg:4309720 | 6:27 am on May 9, 2011 (gmt 0) |
Sure, optimizing will always help. H1 tags, alt tags, etc. Good to add descriptions for the photos too. Have you been getting more sites to add links to your site?
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piatkow
msg:4309751 | 9:31 am on May 9, 2011 (gmt 0) |
I run a photo gallery site (static html) and ranking seems quite precarious. Information on the home page gets indexed quite well but anything topic related seems to come and go.
As stated above proper use of heading tags, alt tags and titles all help. Also make sure that bots can find pages through standard html.
Supporting text with images helps. Don't forget to use alt tags on thumbnails as well as the main pictures.
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Scooter24
msg:4309787 | 11:00 am on May 9, 2011 (gmt 0) |
Well, the HTML (4.01 transitional) validates without errors or warnings, the site has plenty of incoming links, H1 and alt tags are defined, the images have short descriptions. The site itself is well-structured and easy to navigate.
Things were actually somehow fine, also considering the flood of images in the Internet, but in the past three months there has been a marked drop.
I've read about this new Panda algorythm in another thread, which penalises low quality content and content farms, and I wonder if for some reason I got penalised too.
It's just that I do not know exactly what to do. Should I rewrite descriptions for all 20000 images of the site, update/expand the text of all 1200 galleries on the site, or try some SEO black magic?
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Scooter24
msg:4309792 | 11:02 am on May 9, 2011 (gmt 0) |
By the way, I think I get enough bot traffic. It could be that half of the site's traffic is from bots.
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Sgt_Kickaxe
msg:4310258 | 8:17 am on May 10, 2011 (gmt 0) |
Basic SEO would include the things you mention, unique and useful content on a well planned and promoted site etc.
If you're referring to the Panda changes however Matt Cutts has mentioned via Twitter that Panda was more of a one-off update that won't be run again until they want to "freshen the data" (ie: not run daily, or "always on"). That means there might not be anything you can do to fix Panda changes besides improve quality and wait until the next time they run Panda.
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OMZen
msg:4311486 | 6:18 pm on May 12, 2011 (gmt 0) |
The answer lies in your Analytics!
Check the "Intelligence Tab" in your Google analytics data to pinpoint "WHY" traffic has declined.
Also check your Top Content Report over time for various sections to spot any sections that may have lost traffic. ( the "WHAT" )
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Scooter24
msg:4311506 | 6:59 pm on May 12, 2011 (gmt 0) |
I've never installed Google Analytics - should I?
However, there is a new EU regulation which prohibits setting up cookies to track people. Perhaps it's illegal to use Google Analytics in the European Union?
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Scooter24
msg:4311507 | 7:01 pm on May 12, 2011 (gmt 0) |
Correction: prohibits setting up cookies to track people without their consent. But setting up a pop-up window to ask for permission to set the Google Analytics cookie doesn't sound like a good idea.
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