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hello cipher,

Your site has a good content....but the main problem is the color theme u have chosen for your site.... it is not at all appealing to the eyes....my kind of a user will difinitly run away from such sites.

secondly, there can be some problem becoz of the urls u have used they are in caps...its against html rules....url should always be in lower case.

all the best
creative

Thanks Timous, Why is it that my site is not getting indexed in google? Please explain me why is this happening when external links are indexed by google on my site.So how to get my site indexed???
I would work something on the color scheme... probably will lighten the home page colours...
haven't used ajax, just javascript for links.
Any specific measures that I can take (like addind keyword specific content... etc) for site seo?

Regards,
Cipher

What does it mean to have site:www.chariot-tours.com in google?
At first I thought that my pages navigation is causing the troubles so I added html sitemaps on my site, added sitemaps to google webmasters tool... and submitted the site to search engines... but still my site does not show up...
what might be the trouble? Also, my site is not having any traffic on the inner pages through search engines. The only organic traffic I am getting is through image search.

Please guide me, Having a business site I need to generate traffic and hence business,. The purpose of the site is not getting fulfilled.

Hi Timous,
I know this may sound stupid but I don't know any thing about the text browser and the mod rewrite thing you are suggesting. I haven't even added the meta tags to all pages of the site and the content was also provided by the client.
I generated the XML sitemap by using an online generator and have no specific idea about that either.
wonder what else to say now that I already seem like a fool.

Regards

Cipher,

Don't worry, it really isn't as tough as it seems.  First of all, mod_rewrite is just some code for apache that rewrites the url essentially, you don't have to worry about it.

A text based browser is a browser that only renders text, no images.  A good one is called Lynx browser.  It is a good tool to make sure that your site can be navigated by spiders.  I searched Google for site:chariot-tours.com and it came up with a bunch of results.  This means that your site is being indexed without www. subdomain prefix.  This is not a major problem but www.* is more asthetic.

What you should do is find a good keyword to optimize your pages for.  Once you have that you can worry about the rest. 

Don't worry, we all have are areas of expertise.  Good luck.

Yes I am using google analytics,
Why don't all my pages get indexed in google... they keep coming out of google in every subsequent PR update
my site has around 400 pages (other one) but only 15 of them are indexed (site:decipheringlife.com)
All are content pages have I have strived hard for making them but there is no search engine traffic... please tell me how it works.

You said you were using the Google Analytics, but are you using the Google Webmaster tools? The difference is that Analytics tracks your sites performance, while the Webmaster tools will help you get your site properly indexed by google and this is were you can test and see if the robots are accessing your internal pages and other great features!

With Google you have to just be patient. Since they don't manually index the urls it takes time, the robots can be slow about it. Your word content and clickable links are good, they will pick up on it. The site looks seo ready as far as google goes. Have you submitted your site to yahoo, they are the second biggest search engine, and many other search engines go through yahoo to index sites, like lycos. They take some time to index too and you have to sign up for a free yahoo account. Hope this helps!

Thanks for coming !
The categories look well set up and the images are clear. I'm not sure that your opening statement is effective enough.
Hope this helps you.

SoraCross wrote:

Hey, when I try to go to your site I get a 404 error.

You almost skipped my heart beat.... ;D
I just checked it... It is fine, may be you can try it once more.