Can you suggest or help!

Bay-Bee

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I am a bit confused by the seo and I can change something and it doesn't make a difference but then suddendly I will jump a couple of pages! Some things I am on page one and others I am nowhere to be seen!!

Is there anything you can see that sticks out which I am doing wrong!

www.bay-bee.co.uk is my site
 
Hi, there's some really fundamental basics missing, that when implemented should have a significant impact on your website's performance in the rankings:

1. Descriptive page titles - the page title is the very top blue or grey bar on a webpage. It describes the content/subject of the page itself and is considered the most important element of SEO. Write an individual page title for each page (or at least each category page), containing your targetted keyphrase/keyphrases eg. Fingerprint Jewellery | Bay-Bee

2. If possible have the URLs of the pages rewritten so that they also contain teh keyphrase eg. www.bay-bee.co.uk/fingerprint-jewellery
 
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Hi,

Your page titles are the same for each page, it would be a good idea to have a different (unique) title for each page on your site. The reason? If each of your page titles are the same search engine spiders will stop indexing your site as they think each page is the same, could be a reason why you are high on some things and no-where on others.

Took a quick look at your code and could only see a couple of meta tags - would be a good idea to add a good description and keyword meta tag.

You should also look up and add ALT TAGS to your images.

We can help you with your on site SEO. SEO is a long term strategy with no quick fix to it, you would be lucky to see positive business results within six months if you work on your site consistantly. For this reason most webmasters employ an SEO/web design company to carry it out on thier behalf. If you require a cost for this then please PM me with some details and I will provide a full costing proposal.

Regards
 
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nass

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Your page titles are the same for each page

... are you sure? looks to me like they follow the format "Welcome to Bay-Bee - Proud to support 'Work at home Mums'." + prodName

My suggestion would be if you can, just replace it across the board with Baby Clothes and Baby Gifts | prodName | Bay-Bee". Or "prodName | Baby Clothes and Baby Gifts from Bay-Bee". Then work primarily on backlinks.
 
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Hi, there's some really fundamental basics missing, that when implemented should have a significant impact on your website's performance in the rankings:

1. Descriptive page titles - the page title is the very top blue or grey bar on a webpage. It describes the content/subject of the page itself and is considered the most important element of SEO. Write an individual page title for each page (or at least each category page), containing your targetted keyphrase/keyphrases eg. Fingerprint Jewellery | Bay-Bee

2. If possible have the URLs of the pages rewritten so that they also contain teh keyphrase eg. www.bay-bee.co.uk/fingerprint-jewellery

how do you change the descriptive page titles?
 
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how do you change the descriptive page titles?

The top piece of html code on each of your web pages should look something like the example below. The bit highlighted in bold is your page title. Make your changes, save it, upload it via ftp and Bob's your uncle.

<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>

<title>This is the title of my page</title>
<meta name="description" content="Visit my website, it's really good " />
<meta name="keywords" content="blah, blah, blah" />

<link rel="stylesheet" href="styles/general.css" type="text/css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" href="styles/homepage.css" type="text/css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" href="styles/others.css" type="text/css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" href="styles/contact.css" type="text/css" />

</head>
 
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nass

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From your webpage html source, it looks like you're using some eCommerce software called "EROL v4 ecommerce". Are you able to log into your site to make changes -- is there a section for SEO, ie called site 'description' or something like that which you have currently set as Welcome to Bay-Bee - Proud to support 'Work at home Mums

If so, you should be able to make an across the board change to all your titles, ie do what I wrote here

Postscript. Ouch. Unless I'm having a blonde moment, it looks as if all your actual content is inside frames. If it's working the way I think it's working, the amount of control you have over your site looks to be fairly limited :(
Code:
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Frameset//EN"
"http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/frameset.dtd">

<HTML>
<HEAD>
    <!-- #BeginEditable 'META' --><META NAME='Generator' CONTENT='EROL v4.1008'><!-- #EndEditable -->

    <META NAME="keywords" CONTENT="comforter, comfort blanket, blanket, baby blanket, cot blanket, cot, soother, sleep, baby sleeping, sleeping baby, baby, happy baby, stop baby crying, crying, cry, teething, baby teeth, baby seat, nappies, nursery products, baby products, dummy, nursery, snuggly, snuggle, tag, satin, fleece, furniture, clothing, canvases, canvas, hand painted, hand made, handmade, nappy cake, bib, bibs, dribblebuster, card, cards, birthday cards, crib, tlc, gift box, teddy bear, plaques, buppy, buppy pads, nct">
    <META NAME="description" CONTENT="Bay-Bee specialise in sourcing beautiful, unique products that are just that little bit different. From practical but funky Bandana Bibs and wonderful keepsake boxes, to beautiful children's clothes, nursery furniture and stunning fingerprint jewellery there really is something for everyone. You can check out Crib Clothing range of babies clothes, cuddly toys and gift boxes. We now stock beautifully hand made cards and also, designer Jewellery make an appearance. Don’t forget Hometime Crafts personalised toys and furniture, Dawns cards, Buppy Pads and Colourart nursery canvases. The vast majority of our products are made by work at home Mums and we are proud to support them whenever and wherever we can.">
     <meta content="index, follow" name="robots">
     <meta content="7 days" name="revisit">
     <meta http-equiv="no-cache">

    <TITLE>Welcome to Bay-Bee</TITLE> 


    <!-- #BeginEditable 'SCRIPT' -->


<script type="text/javascript" SRC=e4-main.js></script>

<!-- Start of StatCounter Code -->
<script type="text/javascript" language="javascript">
var sc_project=950864; 
var sc_invisible=1; 
var sc_partition=7; 
var sc_security="a90a7ee7"; 
var sc_remove_link=1; 
</script>

<script type="text/javascript" language="javascript" src="http://www.statcounter.com/counter/frames.js"></script><noscript><img src="http://c8.statcounter.com/counter.php?sc_project=950864&amp;java=0&amp;security=a90a7ee7&amp;invisible=1" alt="counter easy hit" border="0"></noscript>
<!-- End of StatCounter Code -->

<!-- #EndEditable -->
<SCRIPT type="text/javascript" SRC=store.js></SCRIPT>

</HEAD>

<FRAMESET ROWS="100%,*,*,*" FRAMEBORDER=0 FRAMESPACING=0 BORDER=0>
    <FRAME SRC="x0.html" NAME="main" MARGINWIDTH=0 MARGINHEIGHT=0>
    <FRAME SRC="blank2.html" NAME="searchFrame" MARGINWIDTH=0 MARGINHEIGHT=0>
    <FRAME SRC="blank.html" NAME="courierFrame" MARGINWIDTH=0 MARGINHEIGHT=0>
    <FRAME SRC="blank2.html" NAME="orderFrame" MARGINWIDTH=0 MARGINHEIGHT=0>

    <NOFRAMES>
        <BODY>
        <A HREF="toc.html">Table of Contents</A> | <A HREF="x1.html">Home Page</A> | <A HREF="x2.html">Menu Page</A> | <A HREF="x3.html">Toolbar Page</A>
        <!-- #BeginEditable 'BODY' --><!-- #EndEditable -->
        <!-- #BeginEditable 'TOC CONTENT' --><A HREF="toc.html">Table of Contents</A><BR><A HREF="http://www.erol.co.uk/">EROL - Electronic Retail Online E-commerce shopping cart software</A><!-- #EndEditable -->
        </BODY>
    </NOFRAMES>

</FRAMESET>
</HTML>
 
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Bay-Bee

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Thanks guys!

We have looked at the title and description that you have been saying about and we are able to change this and make it more descriptive on each page.

Or comments have been very helpful and hopefully we will be up on page one for more searches soon!!!

Regarding the page name behind the website address we are unable to change it from numbers to page name. So stuck on that one until we upgrade to the new version of erol software.
 
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