G'day again Jeannie.

Lifted means copied from another site.

Your spam e-mails would be because you have your e-mail address on your website. It needs to be encoded so the spambots can't read it. There are crawlers constantly crawling the web, harvesting e-mail address to sell for spam purposes.

You can take either of two directions:

1)  Encode your e-mail address and put up with the spam till they forget your e-mail address.

2)  Get a new e-mail address and encode it before they find it.

It's not a matter of dumping the site and starting over. It's a matter of working with what you have. Starting over won't be any different unless you come to terms with good web building practice. And you can change your site building practice with what you have, retaining some aging benefit.

Click on The Gypsy's signature link and go to his sight. He has a SEO e-book that I'm told is very good. $10. Or read the Site Reference articles. Free.

But start with getting rid of any duplicate content. Get rid of it today. Write some new content tomorrow.

You seem to write very well. That's why I wondered if it was all lifted. Very professional. I haven't read your articles; just your site.

So as you write, target the keywords/keyphrases you have chosen for that particular page.

It's not much use targeting sexyanything. I'm told that half of the web is consumed by sexysomething. So that means you've got to be better than 500 billion other pages. Do your keyword research.

Regards,
Laurie.

Jeannie -- Laurie has given you solid advice ... as for you getting Spam email; Laurie is right again ... NEVER put your real email addy on a website!

How do you get around that?  Simple -- sign up for this Spam-free email service I've been using for a long time ... all you have to do is just sign up here

Now, if you want a demonstration of that service -- try to send me a Spam email

I am confused about my email being on my site. I dont find it. I had a feedback form...will get rid of that.

Got Gypsy's ebook last week.

Lifted content-No. Put my own (distributed) articles on my site.

Spam free email service-would I need to begin using this with a new email address?

Jeannie -- no; you don't need a new email addy to use the Spam-free service ... it will just simply replace your original feedback form.

Hey Jeannie! I see you've been hard at it. No wasted time with you, huh? Shows us you're for real.

Now, I have no idea of the readership of SR forum, but I'm guessing that there would be between 10 and 100 people worldwide, watching this thread like a hawk, all wanting you to succeed, wishing you well. It's encouraging to see that you've made changes to your site, overnight., while I've had a sleep.

It's mid winter in Australia, 5.30am, still quite dark and a good frost outside. Just thought you might want to know that.

Well, I can't see what you had for an e-mail form. Guess you've removed it already. Just because it's a form and looks like TA's, doesn't mean it's spam proof.

If you have in your code something like:

<a href="mailto:jeannie@thebeach.com">E-mail Jeannie</a>

then, you can expect spam.

You need to sign up with xinbox and put the code in your html page.

Which brings me to the question: Are you building your site with a WISIWYG editor or making your own html code?

I really don't know where you're at with your web building skills, Jeannie. It would be good if you would let us know. It's useless taking the time to tell you what to change in your html code if you've never even seen what drives your site.

Do you know how to view the code on someone else's site? Go to my page: http://www.southimage.net/aragunnucamping/contact.htm

In the top left of your browser window click View, then click Source Code or Source. That will bring up my page of html code.

Scroll down the page till you find the code for my e-mail. It's the part:

<h4>Contact Laurie McArthur of southimage.net</h4>
<p><script type="text/javascript">
<!--
Note: I've removed the workings of the code from in here.
//--></script></p>
<p>Phone: (02)6492 2824</p>

This is a different system from TA's.

It's up to you whether or not you get a new e-mail address. If you continue with the old one, I suppose they'll loose site of it an a few weeks or a month. They keep crawling constantly and will update their list according to what they find. I'm only guessing here, but I reckon it's a good guess.

Your articles: If you had 100 pages in your site with 300 words of unique content on each page, then a couple of duplicate pages wouldn't have a big effect. But then, if you can write 100 x 300 word pages, why would you need to scrounge duplicate articles?

You'll need at least 20 good pages, with 150 to 300 words per page, in your site , with no duplicate content. Looks like you're stuck with four pages, so you'll need to make the most of them.

Now Jeannie, In the course of writing this post I've had a more in depth look at your site; the pages, code, Google listings, your links, your backlinks. I've also looked at your competitors sites.

I've formed some views:

1)  You need to learn html.

2)  Scrap your template and reuse your content with a new start, coding your own html on the same domain and hosting.

3)  You are an affiliate for Ujena. Affiliate number 147, perhaps.

4)  Your main competition, other Ujena affiliates, have rather poorly made pages, comparable to yours. Shouldn't be hard to beat them.

5)  You're also in competition with the Ujena site. It also is not very strongly built. However, it's strong point is that it receives hundreds of relevant backlinks from affiliate sites, like yours.

6)  While ever you are targeting the same keywords as Ujena, they'll outrank you in the serps. Some cynical people would say that Ujena are using you, and dozens of affiliates like you, to get relevant backlinks, to keep them in front of their non affiliate competition. If you make a few sales, here and there, well so be it. They'll give you your commission.

You distribute articles to get backlinks and Ujena gets affiliates to get backlinks. According to those cynical people, it stinks.

7)  You can make a success of this, but there is much more in it than you realize. You need someone far more capable than I to advise you. A lot of study, experimentation, reactive changes and hard work ahead.

Best wishes,
Laurie.

LOL Laurie -- we've made an HTML / CSS Monster out of you!!!

Thanks, Laurie... (I didnt get notified of this reply, or I would have responded sooner. It is apparent that you guys are for real. I am so glad I found this forum)

Which brings me to the question: Are you building your site with a WISIWYG editor or making your own html code?

I am using NVU to build my pages. I would not say that I know html, but when I want to do something, I search for ways on the net and figure it out.

You'll need at least 20 good pages, with 150 to 300 words per page, in your site , with no duplicate content. Looks like you're stuck with four pages, so you'll need to make the most of them.

I have 4 pages, but can build as many as I want. So much to learn first... at one time, I had about 15 pages.

1)  You need to learn html.

2)  Scrap your template and reuse your content with a new start, coding your own html on the same domain and hosting.

I dont understand this, sorry. I am not using a template. I built a bare bones page with tables and a header graphic, with no content. Then I copy and paste the code and use it to create a new web page. Where do I start with this suggestion?

-Jeannie

I truly tihnk you need to step back in BREAAAAATTHHH..... inhale...exhale..inhale...exhale...

The average web biz - sans mega marketing bucks - takes years to make successful. You seem to be in the need of instant gratification.. that's unlikely. As in the off-line world, overnight sucesses, are few and far between.

ahhh yes...breathing. I remember how to do that. Little rusty though.

overnight sucesses, are few and far between.

Thats not what everyone says on the net. If it's on the internet, it must be true, right?
(sorry- couldn't resist.)

OK Jeannie.

Sounds like you're in a good position to go forward, bearing in mind what the Gypsy has said.

There are several areas where you need to study up.

1)  Keyword targeting. There are several aspects to this and you need to study them all. Gypsy's book.

2)  Presentation of graphics on the web. Your images are generally way too big in file size. This is partly a product of using the WYSIWYG side of your editor. Learn to resize and optimize your images and insert them using html.

I use IrfanView for most of my basic graphics stuff. Not only a good programme, but also free. That makes it doubly good.

3)  Make your own template.  The way you're setting out your page is OK. You need to keep it consistent throughout the site. You'll save yourself a lot of repetitive work if you have a template. In the template you can include all the stuff that appears on every page. When you come to build a new page, you just open the template and you're half way done. Just add the unique text and graphic content.

But keep the repeated stuff to a minimum so that your ratio of unique to duplicate is high.

Now, here are a couple of things you need to do, right off:

First thing on your page should be the page title, or in the case of the home page this is also the site title. This should be your main keyphrase.

If you're stuck on Sexy Bikini then this should be your site title. No one is going to search on Wear's the beach. Well, maybe your mother and your few closest friends.

So, use Sexy Bikini as the first term in the title in the head and repeat this as the heading on your page.

A suitable title and heading may be Sexy Bikini Beach Wear and One Piece Swim Suits.

The page heading should be h1.

You also should have a description in the head. Repeat this as the subheading, h2, second thing on the page.

A suitable description and subheading may be Wear's the Beach provides sexy bikinis and other beach wear, one piece swim suits, resort  wear and cruise wear.

The above title and description are for the home page. Each page should have a unique title and description.

You should remove your name, Wear's The Beach, from it's top position, Put it third as h3 if you must, but I recommend that you make it part of the image so that it isn't text. You need to redo the banner image anyway. Resize it, see above, so you may as well incorporate the name at the same time. I'll do it for you if you wish. It's not a big job when you know how.

I must say, in attempt to encourage you, that your site looks good. Your sense of colour and design is great. ;)

You are way in front of many, new, would be web business people who come to the forum hoping for the magic bullet. Many have thrown in the towel by this stage. Hang in there girl. :thumbsup:

Regards,
Laurie.

Y'all don't understand -- I wanna see Jeannie in a Bikini ... not those pasty Hollywood over-paid Models!

CRACK ME UP!!!!   Y'all...

Laurie- I am on it as soon as I can see through my laughing tears.

G'day again, Jeannie.

I've taken the liberty to redo your banner image. If you'd like to take a look and decide on using my version or not, send me an e-mail so I can send it to you. You can't put attachments on the forum PM.

Regards,
Laurie.

Quick questions:

Headings, H1, H2, H3... Are we talking about the navigation menu, or content on the Home page?

Why doesn't everyone use them? When I look at other sites, many don't.

Thanks,
-Jeannie

Jeannie wrote:

Quick questions:

Headings, H1, H2, H3... Are we talking about the navigation menu, or content on the Home page?

Why doesn't everyone use them? When I look at other sites, many don't.

Thanks,
-Jeannie

It is what is known as 'Prominence factors' and can include

H1-4 tags
Bold
Italic


and so forth. Text formatting elements.

I spent a little time analyzing a few sites. It seems that people use H1 and H2 tags a few different ways.
If I understand correctly, One H1 per page, but may use more than one H2 on a page. I don't see a lot of H3's.
Anyway, I think I know what to do.
-Jeannie

Dear Jeannie ... ( I will always be your fool - Elton)

Don't worry over it.. do what looks and feels right. There is no magic formula. I like to tell folks to look at a magazine for good examples of page layouts. Look at how they use titles, bold, italic etc...

As far as I am concerned it's not as much about H1,H2 or H3 as much as maturally developing the text. This should ultimately accomplish what your after.

Prominence facrtors establish emphasis on what the auther believes to be the important parts of the page. Obviously the target phrases/words are likely to be in most of these situations.

Layout the page and move on. We can always come back and split test it later on once the link profile is well developed etc....

...stepped into my life from a bad dream;
making the life that I had seem-
suddenly shiney and new-ew.

Sounds good.

-Jeannie

Hey Gypsy!

Don't make it sound too easy, Mate.

I hope Jeannie doesn't understand by your post that it doesn't matter what she writes. You know, LSI, keyword reserch and all that stuff.

Of course, valid code isn't an issue.

Regards,
Laurie.

It's OK. I understand what Gypsy is saying.
(I do have a habit of getting too intense with this site.)
I took a break and practiced b-r-e-a-t-h-i-n-g.