Untitled webpage in search w/Flash?

[xxnonamexx]

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[stevehungry]

just checked the site and my solution wouldnt of worked. had to edit. im really not sure now. maybe contact google?

[justinthparker]

I see that you have a title tag in the head of your index.html file.

Google's cache of your site was Jan 31 2010. It should be different the next time google visits your site.

If you want bots to visit your site sooner (i.e. your website changes often and you want the listing in search engines to be more up to date) you can add a meta tag that tells the search engine robots how often to visit.

<meta name="revisit-after" content="15 Days">

That meta tag should be placed in the head section of your index.html file along with the title tag. If there are parts of your website that you do not want to have searchable, you should add a robots.txt file. For more info, see www.robotstxt.org

I also suggest checking your website with a meta tag checker such as http://www.submitexpress.com/analyzer/ or any that you can find by googling "meta tag checker." Many of them analyze your site differently, but usually give you a good idea of how your meta tags are doing.

The other site I recommend is http://validator.w3.org/ to make sure that your coding is valid with little or no errors. The least amount of coding errors, the better. It does help when getting ranked in search engines. However, you can put google.com or facebook.com or many highly visited, professional sites into that validator and find that even they have several error messages. So, if you can get your page to have little or no errors, you should be doing okay. I entered your site and it lists 28 errors. Which isn't too bad, but it doesn't pass the validator. Alot of the errors can sometimes be due to the code that's embedding your flash. It gives you links to find out more information on how to properly use the OBJECT code for embedding flash; which it shows that the EMBED code is pretty much useless.

Hope all that info helps and if I'm incorrect on any of it, I'm sure someone will correct me.

[xxnonamexx]

I check those sites out and am having trouble as to how to correct the meta tags and the other errors those checks gave me. Thanks

[justinthparker]

Here are some meta tags that I'm currently working on for a band website. It still produces some errors on the meta tag checkers, but it will give you an idea of what tags to put in and the code. You can change the values to target your business instead of music.

<meta name="Keywords" content="rock band,temper through tears,music,mp3,concert,knoxville,temper,thru,tears,guitar,bass,drums,vocals,audio,">
<meta name="Description" content="Temper Through Tears formed in 2009 with former members of Perfect Mercy, See Through Human, &amp; Contrast Gray.">
<meta name="author" content="[email protected]">
<meta name="robots" content="INDEX, NOFOLLOW">
<meta name="revisit-after" content="15 Days"> 
<meta name="rating" content="general"> 
<meta name="distribution" content="global">
<meta name="copyright" content="Website contents © 2009 to present time: Temper Through Tears">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-us">
<meta name="generator" content="Microsoft FrontPage 5.0">
<meta name="ProgId" content="FrontPage.Editor.Document">
<meta name="dmoz.id" content="Arts/Music/Bands and Artists/T/Temper Through Tears">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=Windows-1252">

Here is a site that explains meta tags better than I can.
http://www.webmarketingnow.com/tips/...uncovered.html

Hope that all helps. Happy marketing!

[xxnonamexx]

thanks,

[justinthparker]

I doubt there's any code you can put in your site to force google to index your site today. It will probably just happen the next time it checks your site.

[justinthparker]

I noticed that your description says "hair salon,ericalexandersalon,salon,hair,."

Description is different than keywords. Description is going to appear under your link in a search result.

So right now your search result would say:
ericalexandersalon
hair salon,ericalexandersalon,salon,hair,.
www.ericalexandersalon.com

For example:
Mario Tricoci Hair Salons & Day Spas
Mario Tricoci is a day spa and hair salon like no other. Come pamper yourself with an all encompassing menu of hair salon and spa services.
www.tricoci.com

The bold section shows what is in this site's description meta tag.

<meta name="description" content="Mario Tricoci is a day spa and hair salon like no other. Come pamper yourself with an all encompassing menu of hair salon and spa services. Visit Mario Tricoci's 19 locations in Chicago and Leawood, Kansas." />

If the description is too long, the search result will only display so many characters from it.

Here are the keywords that this site uses:

<meta name="keywords" content="chicago salon spa, chicago salons, chicago spa, hair salon chicago, best hair salon in chicago,hair salon and spa, salon and day spa, spa, hair salon spa, day spa" />

Also note that the /> is specific to the type of coding the page was written in. If you add that to your code, it will probably create more errors unless you change all of the coding to comply. You can use the same meta tags without the /> at the end.

You can view the coding for most websites by right clicking on the page and select "View Source." Some sites are either written in language that prevents that or they have some code that prevents right clicking on their site. You can always open the site in Frontpage by opening the URL and view the code from there.

[justinthparker]

Checked your site and the cache from Google is today, but still shows untitled. I could probably see that if your site was nothing but an untitled flash file with no robot crawlable content, however you have plenty of content and your site appears to be titled correctly. I think you may just be at the mercy of Google.

Your coding still has the 28 errors and many of them can be easily fixed. I suggest downloading the free Notepad ++ (just google it, lol) to view and edit your code. It lists your code line by line and if anything can make reading your code and matching up what the w3 validator is giving errors on.

For instance, your first error says this:

Line 225, Column 31: document type does not allow element "script" here; assuming missing "body" start-tag
<script type="text/javascript">

Line 225 in your code is:

<script type="text/javascript">
var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");
document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E"));
</script>
<script type="text/javascript">
try {
var pageTracker = _gat._getTracker("UA-12869163-1");
pageTracker._trackPageview();
} catch(err) {}</script>

You should be able to fix that error by simply moving that code below the < body > tag.

Your OBJECT code can do without the EMBED code and needs some tweaking. For more info on correcting the flash OBJECT coding, visit http://validator.w3.org/docs/help.html#faq-flash

All of the images need ALT tags; which is merely some text describing the image. To add that tag to your images, you would do something like this:

<img src="http://www.yoursite.com/images/imagename.jpg" border="0" width="80" height="80" alt="A description of this image that will be displayed in the absence of the image or when the mouse floats over the image">

That will fix all of the errors pointing out something about your ALT tag

I recommend changing your coding information to:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html>

instead of

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">

since half of your code isn't in xhtml anyway. It's easier to change that and go through and take off the /> at the end of all your code like the following line:

<a href="http://www.site.com" />

becomes

<a href="http://www.site.com">

Do all that and you should have passable coding; which every little bit helps in the struggle to get your site to be search engine friendly.

Hope all that info helps.

someone please correct me if I'm misleading him