review of a site run by a person I know

[Blazingpie]

Well, on one of the websites im a member of I noticed that one of the ppl who's journal i watch released a website, and as they were attempting a bit of SEO i offered to have a look at it. Unfortunately I don't have sufficient time with which to actually look at the site properly and make suggestions, so I thought I'd ask it here.

Right off the bat I can say that the link exchange system will have to be modified. Remove all of the non-relevant links (a page-rank site on a graphics site, good grief) and put the others embedded in short paragraphs so that it looks more natural and less like a 'regular' link exchange page. Also, change the name from 'link exchange' to something like 'resources' or 'other information' or something that doesn't suggest 'links'

Another thing, in my mind, that they need to do is add written content, currently there's virtually no text.

http://www.blackrust.com (you'll need to turn javascript off as they disabled right-clicks :( )

[Koz]

Well at a quick look their page titles and descriptions should be more dynamic. A site map couldn't would be great. Definately more content is needed.

Cheers, Koz

[Chatmaster]

I hate sites that disable right click. I mean it just prevents me from using my SEO tools in Firefox nothing else is prevented...

I have no idea what keywords we are talking about, but here goes my input. The site is very light, way to little pages and way to little proper content. Backlinks are way to little.

The internet is built around the basic principle of providing information and resources. This site doesn't not give either. It must be a very difficult site to optimize as you have very little to work with. In order for internal site structure to built up PR for the site there needs to be allot more pages as well as depth with deeplinks to the internal pages.

[Blazingpie]

I hate sites that disable right click. I mean it just prevents me from using my SEO tools in Firefox nothing else is prevented...

I have no idea what keywords we are talking about, but here goes my input. The site is very light, way to little pages and way to little proper content. Backlinks are way to little.

The internet is built around the basic principle of providing information and resources. This site doesn't not give either. It must be a very difficult site to optimize as you have very little to work with. In order for internal site structure to built up PR for the site there needs to be allot more pages as well as depth with deeplinks to the internal pages.

yeah, its annoying having to disable javascript in order to use the tools - other sites that are javascript-heavy like gmail get disabled too :(

[Paz]

Hi,

I also have a few comments.
As well as the importance of adding pages and text content I would also ask your friends to ask themselves exactly what they want for the web pages, specifically which keywords they are targeting and amend their titles, tags and content appropriately - it's not clear to me (and I guess to Google either) which keywords they are targeting.

The navigational structure's quite good because they have a vertical navigational bar, but they should make a sitemap and put it at the bottom of every page.

Also they should link back to a single homepage eg http://www.example.com and not to http://www.example.com/index.html to help focus their PR. Their http://www.example.com page is PR3 and their http://www.example.com/index.html is PR0 so they are wasting home page PR.

Looking at their links pages, I think they should tighten up a little in terms of relevance. They have links to five seo companies which is a bit of a no no for me.
Also they appear to be linking out to a banned site (leadclubdotnet) and they should take down that link ASAP because they could well be penalised for it.

But in general the site needs a little tighening up in content with more focus on keywords they are targeting.

Cheers,
Paz.

[bradmarais]

The site needs more pages. First of all your site should start off with at least 3 pages and then grow from ther. Google likes to see their ranking sites growing. Build a new page once every 2 weeks or so. Complete the seo correctly for each page. Build quality backlinks. Have a introduction to each page before your content starts. H1

[bradmarais]

The site needs more pages. First of all your site should start off with at least 3 pages and then grow from ther. Google likes to see their ranking sites growing. Build a new page once every 2 weeks or so. Complete the seo correctly for each page. Build quality backlinks. Have a introduction to each page before your content starts. H1
Sorry, H1 tags are so important as well as image alt tags. Goodluck.