Search Engine Optimization on Google
I have been doing some SEO on www.titlemark.com, but the task is turning out to be more difficult than I thought. One of the reasons may be because of the content management system that my company developed is not very SEO friendly, but we are slowly changing it so that it is more compatible. I have also had issues getting the site refreshed on google.com and on their DMOZ directory. It seems like it takes months for them to recognize a change or even to start listing the website. On the other hand, Yahoo usually updates the site listing with in a week. Google needs to focus less on ads and more on refreshing their search results.
May 1st, 2007 at 1:01 pm
The biggest problem with the CMS and Title Mark is that the navigation is dynamically generated using JavaScript. Search engines will not see this. Try visiting the site with JavaScript turned off. You can barely get past the homepage. You could use a noscript tag to display the same navigation for browsers without JS enabled (search engine spiders). Because the CMS doesn’t generate this for you, you have to create it manually. The problem with this approach is that you also have to update it every time you add a new item to the navigation.
June 20th, 2008 at 11:40 am
This has given me a new direction to think about as I would not have thought about it myself, although im not convinced its the best approach ……