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[dd456]

Hi All,

I'm hoping someone here can help us out a little.

We created our website recently ourselves on MS Publisher, but there's a couple of things that look a bit wierd, firstly if we type in our name on google, our website comes up without the www. bit at the beginning (type in KK hardware uk into google to see what I mean) and the other thing is how do we amend the web page titles. When you click on our product range the title show a string of numbers but we want it to apear as a description of the products on the page.

...hope that makes sense

 

[superhans]

When you submitted your website you must have forgot to enter the www which is why google is not showing it.

Your titles look good to me, so I figure you fixed it.

 

[patrick47]

Titles are clear and concise, however i would probably suggest that on the content pages (so pages other than the homepage) that you have the title first.

So instead of

KK Hardware - Products......

Products - KK Hardware.....

I think this is easier for the user in tabbed browsing, as with several tabs open you only see the first word or two. But this might be harder to see your site in search engine results.

 

[ludachris]

Hi All,

I'm hoping someone here can help us out a little.

We created our website recently ourselves on MS Publisher, but there's a couple of things that look a bit wierd, firstly if we type in our name on google, our website comes up without the www

Sign up to google web master tools, the tool has an option to include your site in the search engine results page (serps) with or without the www

 

[marketingquotes]

It may be good to get a website designer to have a look over your site and give you some advise. This way you get the site sorted and it does not take too much time up We offer a free quotes service to companies to help them with their marketing (a kind of confused.com for website design) if you wanted some advise?

 

[movietub]

Looks like you fixed the titles. As said by someone else, sign up to Google Webmasters and get your head around that side of things. It's very useful.

To be honest, you will probably find that in trying to list the site, you will also learn enough to re-build the site from scratch to be improved for SEO, and also have more control over titles etc that publisher would offer.

I can see all sorts of minor faults with the site/markup as it is now, and you will probably find that as the site grows and you modify it the layout will become harder to maintain. Having said that, it's not a bad looking effort given the basic functionality of Publisher

 

[marko99]

Hi,

It;s a simple fix....you just need to do a Canonical redirect.

Basically, google thinks you have 2 pages.
the one with www and the one without ww.

At the moment it thinks the one without the www's is the authoritive page. In essence you have 2 index pages on your site which has duplicate content.

So put in the Canonical redirect which tells serach engines that the page with www is the authority page. Ask your web guy to do it for you...hope this makes sense.

(the same thing happen to me...so when someone type in my site without the ww's it gets redirected to the page with the ww's.)

 

[See Web Solutions]

Simply create a file with notepad with file name .htaccess (no name just the .htaccess)

Then in the file put:

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^yoursite.com [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.yoursite.com/$1 [L,R=301]

Replacing yoursite.com with your actual domain and upload this file to your main directory.

If you need help pm me

 

[fz04]

an unprofessional website doesnt give a good business impression to customers or even competitors

if you can afford it pay someone a bit of money to get your website sorted out

 

[zilabee]

The .htaccess code provided above will resolve your problem with the www prefix but there is another thing called a sitemap, have you submitted this on Google? Your meta tags will probably need changing to. If you need any assistance with this we can help you.

 

[ORDERED WEB]

you have bigger issues to resolve

- The site is poor quality, and that reflects on the business
- Your business demographic is probably very local, but I immediately don't know where you are. Remember - if I want timber, I'm going to search for "timber yard Lincoln"
- No call to action, the site is very passive
- You are not conveying your scale. I cant tell if you are a tiddly shop on the street, or a massive unit on a trading estate. In other words, If I was a builder wanting to urgently call in to collect 400M of skirting, I have no idea if you would have it in stock