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Was wondering if anyone can help me...I have a bunch of my own sites that I've both built and optimized that are working out really well on google and the other engines. I have been helping a friend of mine with his website, which was built by a webdesigner. When I started tweaking it there were no meta tags, so I added them. Problem is Google picked it up this update, but all it displays for the description are the alt tags. For some reason it's not picking up any of the content.
I'm not really sure why this is. All of the sites that I do for myself are pretty basic, which I find is best for the engines, but this one seems to have a lot of source code that I can't understand. I'm not sure if it's ok to post this code in here as it contains direct and indirect references to the site itself. Is there any way I could sticky the url to someone? I really would just like to know if there is any code I can insert to fix this or if the design of the site is flawed. Also, it has a PR 0 but I'm pretty sure this is because (a) it has no inbound links yet as it is a new site and (b) if the spider can't read any of the content then it can't be faring very well in that department either, which is unfortunate because it's an extremely content-rich site. Unless there is some sort of spammy technique the designer used on the site that I can't recognize and we're being penalized for it.
Any help anyone could give would be greatly appreciated. I'd really just like to understand what the problem is so that I can find out how to tackle it.
Thanks so much :-)
The snippet that Google uses in the results will normally be the first occurrence of the words on the page, including alt text but not META content.
If you sell blue widgets on the Moon and the first time that widgets is mentioned is in an alt text saying "widgets.gif 15k", then you may wish to change it to alt="" and make the first mention of widgets something like "Blue widgets for sale on the Moon".
I am confident that your PR0 is due to it being a new page with no inbound links yet. The HTML content on the page shouldn't matter at all.
Calum
I'll take a look at the site again keeping in mind your suggestions...
thanks again :) ,
spaciba
