selling live maine lobsters (internet)

hey bob,
i'm kinda new to SEO but i can tell you one big thing that worked for
me.
i had used swap image buttons for navigation like the ones you have
and google never indexed more than my first page. as soon as i
switched to text links bam.. less than 2 weeks later my entire site
was indexed and my pagerank soared to 2/10... doesn't sound like much
but it got me excited. if you can get away from all the javascript you
have it will greatly increase your chances of getting ranked. run you
site through this spider simulator and you will see what i mean
http://www.webconfs.com/search-engine-spider-simulator.php . forget
overture and other ppc programs for now, concentrate on cleaning up
your site, and try to develop some backlinks. get rid of the error
messages that keep popping up and the dangling script tags that show
up in the shopping cart. find some successful ecommerce sites and
examine the order process. that should help you identify the snags in
your cart.

good luck with the site
Marc Chapman
www.ChapDaddy.com
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Hi Bob,

Maybe a Mainer can help u sell some of that lobster after all...First,
I want to emphasize that I agree with the text links idea. Very
important- google even tells you to create your site that way (see
below).

Be aware that your title tag is very important. Currently, when I
click on the "lobsters" link it brings me to a page with the title tag
"products". This title tag would be much better if it described what
you were selling -good both for the user and for the googlebot...

Your site could definitely use much more optimization then that but
I'm short on time this morning so I'll leave you with this:

Use a document type, too. The W3C QA Activity maintains a List of
Valid Doctypes. You can find the info at:
<a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.w3.org/QA/2002/04/valid-dtd-list.html" target="_blank">http://www.w3.org/QA/2002/04/valid-dtd-list.html</a>

After you choose a doc type go back and make sure your HTML coding is
good by using the tool at the following url:
<a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://validator.w3.org/detailed.html" target="_blank">http://validator.w3.org/detailed.html</a>

I would also add that aside from text links, introduce a site map
and fill in those alt tags to make your site more accessible for all
users. See all of Google's site
design tips & guidelines at the url below
<a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.google.com/webmasters/guidelines.html" target="_blank">http://www.google.com/webmasters/guidelines.html</a>


I hope this helps~

Best,

Roland Girouard
<a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.mainenetservices.com" target="_blank">http://www.mainenetservices.com</a>
<a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.maine-ecommerce.com" target="_blank">http://www.maine-ecommerce.com</a>



rharford DeleteThis @tds.net (Bob Harford) wrote in message
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 > I have tried several ways to sell, using overture for two dollars a
 > click for the key word lobster and a few others. Since the last of
 > December I have nearly 200 clicks and no sales yet . Dropped overture
 > temporarily and having a fair amount of visitors,, still no sales Am I
 > up against a super hard market? My budget is low and I am trying to
 > survive... Those that want to visit my site it is
 > <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://www.newenglandtastes.com" target="_blank">www.newenglandtastes.com</a> Comments will be welcomed<!-- ~MESSAGE_AFTER~ -->
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