Help with Oggs

[Chatmaster]

Hi guys

I need your help. As you know I am quite active in the casino industry. I have a friend with a rock solid site, huge amounts and strong backlinks
xhttp://search.yahoo.com/search?p=link%3Ahttp://www.oggs.com

The content is phenominal and top quality but for some reason Google doesn't seem to feel it is worthy of PR or good rankings.
www.oggs.com The irony is that Google index this site and seems to like the content it provides but that is about it.

I have my own opinion about several issues on the site. To mention but one the use of JS with some of the links and the size of the pages especialy the home page. There are some issues, but I do not wish to influence any objective views here. Any opinions are welcome!

[Paz]

Hi,

I've been poking around for 10 mins but now I'm having some problems opening this site - I can't even open the homepage because I'm being redirected all over the place. This site's broken LOL.... but I'll try again later!

[Chatmaster]

Hi Paz

I believe he found the problem and it should be fixed now, if you could have another look?

[Paz]

Hi Chatmaster,

I'm seeing so many issues with the site. Yesterday it completely killed my browser and I couldn't open the homepage without being redirected to Alexa. I'm wondering if it's too overloaded with code, javascript and html errors. Also I'm not sure what the affliatefeed javascript does; it doesn't seem to do anything on the homepage.

Firstly, I'm seeing PR zero for a home page that I would expect to be in the 3-5 range with that number and quality of backlinks - I can't figure out where the PR has "gone". I tried to open a few likely home pages and found that this one had a PR of 2 http://www.oggs.com/index.php

and I'm wondering if your friend has made huge navigational changes recently and hasn't 301 redirected the old pages properly.

I would lose the robots revisit in 3 days meta tags. This can hurt you in MSN and I always think it's a good idea to let the bots visit on their schedule not yours.

I'm seeing evidence of Yahoo having problems spidering the site - look at the snippets:

http://oggs.com/pok...%3C/span%3E%3Cbr%20/%3E%20%3Cbr%20/%3E%3C/div%3E%3Cdiv%20class=

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http://oggs.com/poke...%3C/span%3E%3Cbr%20/%3E%20%3Cbr%20/%3E%3C/div%3E%3Cdiv%20class=
oggs.com/poke...</span><br /> <br /></div><div class=
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tue, 30 aug 2005 13:56:49 +0000
oggs.com/insta...</span><br /> <br /></div><div class=

and your friend should have a trawl through the pages to see if this is a current problem or a new one. It may well be that yahoo is not the only bot having problems, I'm seeing similar in MSN too.

There are other "broken" pages indexed in Google eg:
http://www.oggs.com/reviews-2/

and they should go.

Lastly and the most important. Your friend has blocked the cgi-bin directory with a robots.txt instruction. The problem is that many of the internal links are redirecting with a perl script in this directory. I can see that Yahoo and MSN are following these links anyway, but Google doesn't seem to be and I'm wondering if they are passing PR and anchor text properly in the search engines as a whole.

So what can I say... haha The site's got some problems and I'd go over it with a fine toothcomb. I'd be inclined to take the cgi-bin exclusion down and rely on the nofollow tag to avoid any penalty for linking out to a banned site. I'd also spider it with a link checker (eg Xenu's link sleuth - home.snafu.de/tilman/xenulink.html), looking for orphaned files and folders as well as broken links. The Xenu software generates a site map and I would use that if possible to help with indexing.

Cheers,
Paz.

[Chatmaster]

WOW, nice Paz, thanks allot!

I also feel that the dynamics of the site is a bit overdone and must cause a problem for bots to fully index it.

I have a very big problem with the internal site structure being a VERY broad flat pyramid. There is no proper site structure or depth for internal site theming, making it virtually impossible for any algo to make sense out of the keywords targetted by the website. I feel with the quantity of content and amount of quality backlinks that with added depth and themed backlinks this site should rank really strong. At the moment it most probably has a circular indexing structure as well.

From a usability part as well this site is fairly complicated to the newcomer in the industry and I feel should the structure of the site improve the conversion rate of the site will also improve.