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Yeah, it would be nice to find someone who can do both but maybe I should settle on finding a good SEO practitioner that can let me know what could be better...

I have a web site that is going well but I think it could be better as far as usability and design. Also, I am sure an SEO professional would have some things to do to optimize.   It seems though, that all the SEO companies either want to have along term contract or they don't work with my technology.

Does anyone know of a company that would take my Visual Studio/C# project and tweak it for usability,  design and SEO features for an hourly or set price?

Hi David,

I did add ton of new web pages and because of those got those 404's.  I've since cleaned them all up.   i thought I had them cleaned up before the my traffic fell but there could be a lag there.  I am a little bummber my PR is 2...  pretty marginal improvement over 0.

I will keep an eye on my traffic and hopefully it was the bad links.

Thank you for the thoughful response!

In the last couple weeks my impressiona and clicks have dropped off to about half what it used to be. I am wondering if Google is punishing me for something...

I also added two new pages to my site in the first week of June and they still aren't indexed.  In the past it seemed like new pages would be indexed in a couple days.

Is there any way to tell if Google is unhappy with my site?  WMT shows 3 server errors, 3 Access denied,  and 122 not found errors.  Could those not found pages be killing me?

Thanks for any advise,

Greg

www.AntiqueBanknotes.com

ok... After some thought I have figured out a way to add these links and have it make sense.  At least it will be defensible.

Thanks for your help.

I have a situation where people search for terms like, say 1978 one dollar bill. Even though there never was a 1978 one dollar bill.   I want to make a page to capture these searches but since there wasn't such a thing as a one dollar bill I don't want it connected to the rest of my content which is reality based.   Does that make sense?

Anyway,  my question is,  can I publish pages that aren't linked to my menu structure but that will be searchable or, am I going to have to figure out a way to make these oddball pages accessible through my menu?

I've seen it said several places that Google treats a dash like two words so I can't see how NationalCurrency would be better than National-Currency for keyword "National Currency"

Wonder if there is a way to confirm this?

I meant to say 301...   My current site has a ton of them due to a naming convention change.

I haven't done a thing with this nationalcurrencyvalues regarding link building because all my link building efforts have concentrated on a third site.  I guess I will retrace my steps in that effort for the benefit of the nationalcurrencyvalues site.

I think I should probably move my site but it's not something I am going to rush into.  It tooks me seemingly forever to finally get noticed but the OSE tool.

I have been trying to rank well for the key word "National Currency" forever and can't seem to make it into the top ten.  I would really like to have the URL NationalCurrency but it's taken and can't be bought.

My url is nationalcurrencyvalues.  After reading the forums and various other SEO advice it occurred to me that National-Currency is as good or better than NationalCurrency for that keyword because it's seen as two words.  (right)

So,  I grabbed that domain name.   Now,  my question...  is there some way to make use of the National-Currency domain name without building an entirely new site?

I don't think I want transfer all of my content from nationalcurrencyvalues. Would there be any benefit to my nationalcurrencyvalues if I set up 303's on National-Currency?

Thanks Megan,

I figured it was something like that since the errors went away without any further action.  Thanks for putting the issue to rest for me. 

First,  I appreciate all the responses and I will certainly take something from each of them.  Vahe touched on something that I thought I should do and now it's confirmed.   My national currency page sits on top of several sub pages but I don't have links to the sub pages from within that page.  I figured it was enough to have them on the menu.  But in the back of my mind I wondered if there was some SEO type reason to use a bunch of internal links to make the site more navigable and to pass link juice around.

Thanks everyone who answered!

I am frustrated by a lack of progress for a major keyword I want to rank for.  I have made several pages, optimized with Onpage and even a whole site but I can't seem to get my ratings up.

I am hoping somone can take a look at my pages and efforts and offer me some advice...

Keyword is "National Currency"

One site is devoted to this keyword: NationalCurrencyValues

This site is ranked 30th and is down 9...

and this page on another site is devoted to the same keyword

ranked 26th is: http://www.antiquebanknotes.com/National-Currency.aspx

Hi Robert,

I added that rule but oddly it doesn't seem to work for me... The expression looks good so I don't know what to think... maybe one of my other rules is getting in the way.

Thanks for the link!

A few weeks ago my error count went up for Duplicate Page Content and Titles.  4 errors in all.  A week later the errors were gone...

But now they are back.  I made changes to the Webconfig over a month ago but nothing since.

SEOmoz is telling me the duplicate content is this

http://www.antiquebanknotes.com/   and http://www.antiquebanknotes.com

Thanks for any advise!

This is the relevant web.config.

<rewrite><rules><rule name="CanonicalHostNameRule1"><match url="(.*)"><conditions><add input="{HTTP_HOST}" pattern="^www.antiquebanknotes.com$" negate="true"></add></conditions>
          <action type="Redirect" url="<a href=" http:="" www.antiquebanknotes.com="" {r:1"="">http://www.antiquebanknotes.com/{R:1}" />
       </action></match></rule>
        <rule name="Default Page" enabled="true" stopprocessing="true"><match url="^default.aspx$"><conditions logicalgrouping="MatchAll"><add input="{REQUEST_METHOD}" pattern="GET"></add></conditions>
          <action type="Redirect" url="/"></action></match></rule></rules></rewrite>

Ok,  I'm convinced.... I've added sitemaps to my site.

Thanks for the advice regarding standards and the robots.txt file.

I have a relatively simple and small site (60 pages).  All of it is crawlable and there is nothing I want non follow.

So, is there any real benefit to a sitemap since Google can get to all the site anyway?

Do they give the site more credence or something because it's there?

I guess as an aside,  are there any favorite sites that will generate a site map?

Thanks!

Hi Ryan,

First, thank you so much for the interesting feedback... I will learn plenty with this thread I am sure.

#1 Interesting tool validating the html... I am kind of surprised by the errors since the html is very basic.  I wonder if it's finding issues with my Masterpage.  I will dig in and see if I can clean those up.  I have cleaned up my issue with the Div in the Head... which was hurting every page on the site... very nice.

The last 20 errors seem to be a complaint with microsofts image map.  Or at least,  I need to set noHref somewhere on the image map but I dont' see the property.  I will work on that.

#2 I purposely used the singular because that is the exact keyword I want to hit.  I figured taking the slight hit for grammar was better to get the exact keyword.  I'd be curious to hear your thoughts on that trade off or if there really is a tradeoff there.

#3 Yeah, I will be adding some content but not much... the star of this page will be the notes and the breakdown of their anatomy

#4 The note is an image map and I have defined 12 clickable areas on the image where a tooltip will show on click or hover.  I thought describing the click to a site user was a little more intuitive than having them hover over.  My users will tend to be older.

#5 Fixed.

I just put up a page that uses an image map to illustrate a national currency note.

http://www.antiquebanknotes.com/NationalCurrency/National-Bank-Note-Information.aspx

My  goal with this page is get results for National Bank Note.  But I know image maps are wierd creatures and not good for linking.  My question is,  will Google index my tooltips and find this page useful and therefore worthy?

I think the content is useful for my users but I just don't know if the implementation will work well.  This screen will eventually have 5 or 6 notes on it and I don't want to do it

the concensus is negative...

Thanks for any advice.

Both interesting and informative replies... I guess my confusion comes from the fact that my antiquebanknotes.com  and NationalCurrencyValues.com domains were both started at the same time and the primary source for tons of inbound links is a signature line I use in a forum.  It just seems odd that nationalCurrencyValues shows 0 across the board but It makes sense given the OSE says no data available.

The site does show up for some relevent good searches though so it seems that the DA opinion a little harsh.

I guess I better find some links so that I can evaluate the site better.

Thanks to both replies!

I have a web site that shows with all zeroes in the Competitive Domain Analysis and subdomain Metrics screen. I don't think this is possible because I have a ton of links out there to this web site from a forum that I visit. Can someone help me understand how this might be. I am hoping it's not some dreaded www vs non www issue because I think I solved that issue for this site. The site is www.nationalcurrencyvalues.com