Idiots guide to my site getting listed

[BernardStewart]

I built two sites last year and have submitted it to several search engines.
However I cannot seem to get them listed.
Even putting in the full URL into google produces a nil outcome.
Can anyone help me?
My site references are:-

http://www.ipd.me.uk/

http://i-p-d.biz/

 

[mThomas]

Maybe I'm missing something, but the two sites look the same to me. All the regulars in this forum will aggree that content, relavent content, is one of if not the biggest factor in getting a good ranking in any search engine, even directories.

With lots and lots of relavent content, you will attract links from sites with content relative to yours.

Your sites have some content, but more would be very helpful.

mike

 

[BernardStewart]

Mike,
Thankyou for your reply
yes the two sites are the same in order to keep the names.
But what counts in this context as 'relevant' content?

 

[mThomas]

In your challenge page you should add several more paragraphs explaining your opening sentence. Basically expand in detail what you already have.

In the who we are page you might expand on what the individual specialists do and are. In the same page back up your third paragraph with reasons and examples.

You might want to include some scientific abstracts by occupational psychologists, with permission of course.

On your services page you need several detailed paragraphs explaining each service. Same thing on your uses of psychology page.

All the above would be relevant content. Once you have fleshed out your content, look for other sites that are similar to yours and might offer ancillary information. See if they would want to exchange links. If so how you use the links and how they use the links is very important. Try and use the links inside your text, as part of a paragraph. So the links flow with the text.

Also you are using images for some of your headers. I would used header tags, <h1>, instead. That will help. Add an alt tag to your images. Include some keywords, but don't go overboard with them.

In all your pages you need to define the call to action. What do you want the reader to do? What do you want them to understand? Why should they read your content, and why should they use your service? A strong call to action is a big big plus.

mike

 

[foxdev]

Don't mirror the content on both sites. Use a 301 permanent redirect from one site to the site you want to be the &quot;official&quot; one. Keeping both with identical content will likely get you banned.

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[BernardStewart]

Thanks Foxdev - why would this get me banned and by whom?

 

[foxdev]

Sorry; I had just popped over from another thread where Google was being discussed; I should have been more clear.

Google (and possibly others, although Google seems to be the most aggressive) will likely penalize one or both sites if it determines that the exact same content is on multiple sites.

Why would Google do this? In the interest of weeding out sites/operators that try to monopolize on the search results. Think about it: if I sold widgets, I could take all my 300 widget product pages and put them on 10 different sites (widgetworld.com, widgetsRus.com, etc), and if I could potentially occupy all the search results slots.

In order to combat this (and there are a LOT of sites trying this), Google has automated systems that tries to identify duplicate content and penalize one or all of the sites.

Penalize in what way? Either by removing all of your sites pages from its index, or by reducing your PageRank to zero, or by some other means not known to us mortals.

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