OK, let me first say THANK YOU for all you help and research and I think this effort we are making should be continuous and ongoing. Since things change constantly with search engines we need to be on top of all the changes that are happening and adhere to them. I want to respond to each of the suggestions and I will this evening but I wanted to first post the information I have found important and see what you guys think. I made this list of changes that I have asked JAZ to implement and so far these are the things I have found wrong with the [words=http://www.mattersofsize.com/join-now.html]MOS[/words] site (thanks to you guys.)
Here is a list of 13 things I have researched and I think we need to change or imply.
1.) OUR LINKS PAGE: PLEASE CHECK THESE LINKS TO BE SURE NON ARE BAD OR 404. Eliminate the links that I have followed with remove. These links are effecting our ranking due to their insignificance to our key phrase goals.
http://www.mattersofsize.com/resources/links.html
Clothing Dating REMOVE
Directories Entertainment REMOVE
Health and Fitness Information
Jewelry Magazines and Ezines REMOVE
Male Enhancement Mens Health Supplements
News and Media Pharmaceuticals & Supplements REMOVE
Toys Women's Interests REMOVE
Sex toys adult toy adult dolls - Satisfaction - REMOVE
Sex toys, adult Dolls, vibrators and Lingerie. Discreet and secure.
Shipping worldwide
Instant Gay Videos - Gay video downloads, gay video on demand, gay streaming videos, lots of free gay video samples and more REMOVE
Alternative medicine and herbal supplement REMOVE
Chong's Health Care specializes in the research and development of alternative herbal medicines and natural health supplements for diabetes, impotence with penis enlargement effect from animal experiment,
weight loss, allergy relief, kidney problems, heart problems, pain relief, eye bags, etc.
2.) There should be Less than 100 links out total. We currently have many more than this. (over 1000 most irrelevant or 404)
3.) IMPORTANT!!! The links for the BLOG and FORUM are not valid! This means we are not being crawled for the search phrase "penis enlargement" under the 2 most important parts of our site. If this is true than we, according to the search engines, have not updated our site in 5 years! This would explain our #1 ranking under Penis ENlargement Blog and our poor ranking under "penis ENlargement" for the main site..
http://www.dead-links.com/check_links.php
4.) The site map that points to the important parts of the site is larger than 100 or so links, we need to break the site map into separate pages. We are penalized for any site map that is more than 100 links. Each page of links should not exceed 100!
5.) The length of our meta tag is not optimized. Even if there is no such thing as the "perfect meta tag", it is suggested to use a short but effective page title (not longer than 150 chars.), one to max 10 keywords (do you really think that the same page can rank well for a long list of different words?) and a comprehensive description that emphasizes the title.
6.) gov sites seem to be the highest status?.edu sites seem to be given a high status?.org sites seem to be given a high status?.com sites excel in encompassing all the spam/ crud sites, resulting in the need for the highest scrutiny/ action by Google.
The new url's I gave you may be important to buy under the previous extensions, as well as the .com extension.
WHATISAVERAGE.COM is available!
Penis EnlargementPenis EnlargementNIS.COM is available!
Penis EnlargementNISENLARGEMENT-NATURAL.COM
JELQANDSTRETCH.COM is available!
Penis EnlargementNISENLARGEMENT-Penis Enlargement.COM is available!
Penis EnlargementNISENLARGEMENT-TV.COM is available!
Penis EnlargementNIS-TV.COM is available!
Each one of these url's should be purchased under .edu, .gov and .org in addition to .com.
7.) Freshness of pages. Google likes to see a site with changing, fresh versions of the existing pages. Simple design or text changes could mean a better ranking.
8.) Link freshness. Adding new links and devolving old, irrelevant or non-existant links, may also help avoid SPAM penalization.
9.) Frequent updates = frequent spidering = newer cache
10.) WHITE PAGES rank better than COLOR PAGES
11.) Newer pages on an older site will get faster recognition.
12.) Listing in
http://search.looksmart.com/ is a good move
13.) SIte size is not too important. 1000's of pages may get us penalized. Google would rather see less pages with more relevance to Penis Enlargement.
14.) The amount a relevant page is clicked is very important! This is why we should have clear, accessible links to the relevant Penis Enlargement pages on our site. CUrrently the articles we have, which number in the 100's, are buried and inaccessible to the general public without extensive searching. The links for these articles should appear on the front page of the Forum, site and BLOG.
15.) It is vital that we register our site for 5 or more years. Google sees 1 year registrations as a spamming site. The longer the domain purchased registration the more serious google will see us.
Please add to this list or correct anything that I may have misinterpreted. Me alone, doing research, is great and it may make a difference but having many of us striving towards the same goal will put us at the top, where we belong.