Opencube and SEO - spiders does not follow links

Your site needs a lot of work. You've only begun to scratch the surface as far as on-site and off-site SEO.

I'll be happy to go over the details, but you really need a good read of this:

www.seo-blog.com/tutorial.php

The first thing you really need is a sitemap. You have a lot of javascript, and the spiders try but are many times unsuccessful of extracting links from javascript. A sitemap no more than 2 clicks away from the home page is essential in your case.

Easy on the javascript, it halts the search engine robots.

Aside from the above tutorial, you need titles and hopefully h1 tags with your keywords. Your title reads nice, but a short combination of your keywords for that page would be better. And every page should have separate keywords that are natural for that page. Each page is considered separately by the search engines.

A nice CSS layout would be better than the table-based layout you have now. It's cleaner and easier for the search engines to navigate.

Off-site SEO; You have 8 inbound links. That may rank you number 1 for your company name, but I assume you want more traffic than that. Adding nitch keywords and soliciting more inbound links of a variety of types would bring more traffic.

And as usual we need to tell you about what's new and in the future on the SEO agenda. Google is starting to become aware of link solicitation, and even though it's a good idea, natural incoming links would be better. The way to get natural incoming links is to be the best or the authority in the industry, having the most tools, articles, etc. and having a really big site. That's the best SEO I can recommend.

I've just covered the basics.

Woops, I posted that last post as a non-expert comment. Still getting used to the new EE!

Hi weikelbob:,

Thanks for all your input - I'll will take this futher to my bosses/management in our company.

We are (even now more, after your posting) aware that we have some challenges on the SEO , but as I wrote a bit about the new corporate website is has just been published a few weeks ago after 7 months of planning in many aspects of research, design, functionality and so on. So we are nearly finished with phase 1. And we will soon go over to phase 2 which implementing more languages, more content and that is where the SEO comes in. So in that part I'd though I might use our common company account at EE to get some help and input since we noticed -  well what I've mentioned before. FYI - we are also using CSS to control some stuff at the site.
So you think that the most important for us to do is to implement a sitemap in phase 2 of the development?

- Is there any considerations that we should consider in terms of the sitemap?

- also is there any other considerations that we should think about, regarding the suggestions that you   posted?
 

Thanks for the help...
Kind regards
Eric
TakeMarket


Oh yeah btw I know that my colleges, including my self are more fond of the old EE design, the new is very confusing to navigate.. so no worries I do know what you mean.. :-)

Hi weikelbob,

Thank you a lot for all the nice and very interesting input. I will talk to my boss tomorrow about it, and tell him this.
I will try to get this into phase 2 of our development of the site.
Thanks again for the inputs.
Kind regards
Eric
TakeMarket

Glad to help :)