SEO Feedback Please Guys

[MarkPearson]

I have been doing a bit of my own SEO (search engine optimisation) and would like some peoples feedback on is it up to scratch?

What else could I do? etc

Due to the design of my site it does limit the customisation of the headers and page titles for every page, so I have created individual pages, some are below.

http://www.rosesbydesign.com/roses-and-champagne.php

http://www.rosesbydesign.com/single-stem-boxed-rose.php

http://www.rosesbydesign.com/one-hundred-boxed-roses.php

[MarkPearson]

Anyone? :-(

[Urban Space]

I don't think hyphens are too hot with Google, I seem to remember someone moaning about them a while back. Someone will be along soon, just sit tight :D!

Liam

[MarkPearson]

I thought google looked at the hyphens (-) as spaces, which is good to seperate the keywords?

[Urban Space]

That's underscores isnt it? (_'s) :?!

Liam

[JustOneUK]

hyphens are fine, in fact better than underscores.

[Coding Monkey]

Hyphens are read by the majority of search engines, whereas underscores are not. I can't remember the exact specifics of the history off the top of my head, but I recall that the underscore used to only be recognised on Yahoo.

[crus]

Hi,

it might be worth changing the rules of your webserver for that folder so that .html pages are parsed as php

this way you could have

http://www.rosesbydesign.com/roses-and-champagne.html

http://www.rosesbydesign.com/single-stem-boxed-rose.html

http://www.rosesbydesign.com/one-hundred-boxed-roses.html

and avoid any issues with engines that class anything with .php as a problem.

Not sure how many still exlude on a suffix basis.

D

[MarkPearson]

Will php limit my site ranking?

How do I change this?

[JustOneUK]

i have never heard of an issue with php pages, it will not effect your rankings.

The only issue is with dynamically produced pages, and cookie sessions.
your php pages are fixed address, so it won't make any difference.

[kevbcharlton]

You page has no doctype and several other html errors.

This may be preventing the spiders from crawling your pages. Run it through the W3C validator and try to clear some up. http://validator.w3.org/

Like the site tho! And a nice product...are they real?

[crus]

The validator is a great tip, although occassionally your code may need to break the validator.

D

[kevbcharlton]

Not neccessarily. Any site can be built using web standards, it just needs to be developed properly from start to finish.

To suggest a complete overhaul for this site however isn't what i'm suggesting, just a few minor issues with code.

You definately need a doctype. Google and other Search Engines use these to read your site.

[crus]

I agree,

all the site needs is a tweak here and there,

my point on religiously following the validator occassionally being a problem,

http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/buglist.cgi?product=Validator;order=bugs.bug_id

otherwise its a key tool.

D