Website Problems

[JimInNY]

No issues from NY. However, you do have to tweak you meta tags and titling so this site can work its way onto the first page at google. ;)

[PapaVolume]

No issues from NY. However, you do have to tweak you meta tags and titling so this site can work its way onto the first page at google. ;)

good idea!

[BurnTire]

No issues from NY. However, you do have to tweak you meta tags and titling so this site can work its way onto the first page at google. ;)

And what do you suggest? It is my understanding that Google does not use meta data.

[JimInNY]

And what do you suggest? It is my understanding that Google does not use meta data.

My experience says that they do use some, like description, to help rank a page.

This is from the home page here:

<meta name="keywords" content="" /> 
<meta name="description" content="Welcome to High Performance Stangs" />

I would make it look like this:

 
<meta name="keywords" content="Mustang, Forums, Ford, Discussion, Community" /> 
<meta name="description" content="Mustang forums and community for discussing all aspects of Ford Mustang ownership, performance, tech, restoration racing, collecting" />

(Feel free to use different keywords and description, mine is just example, I think Mustang Forums should be first regardless of others used.)

But more important, title tags should be added to the head, at the top, most important keywords first:

<title>Mustang Forums High Performance Stangs Discussion</title>

I can't guarantee a huge success with these mods, but at least google (and others) will know what this site is about. I used to be a search engine guru, but I have not kept up on the latest tips and tricks, but these always did, and still do serve me well.

I can't remember what I was looking for when I found this place, but, it was not Mustang Forums, which I would assume would be the most common search terms.

I'm glad I found you folks, even though you're all desert dwellers. :)

But I might not have if I searched for a mustang forum.

I see you do have some good keywords and description on the forum pages. I was just looking at the home page. I think that's the most important page because any incoming links would point there and the search engines would assume that is the most important page by incoming link vote. What does google find when it gets there? High Performance Stangs, but no Mustang Forum. You are the first result for High Performance Stangs, but nowhere to be found on the first 6 or 8 pages of mustang forums.

I hope you don't take this all the wrong way, just trying to help if I can. :)

[BurnTire]

Ok I made some changes.

[JimInNY]

Ok I made some changes.

The only thing I would change is take out the first part of this:

<title>High Performance Stangs - Mustang Forums at High Performance Stangs</title>

and make it this:

<title> Mustang Forums at High Performance Stangs</title>

Reason:

The first words are carry the most weight. I'm not positive, but I think someone looking for a mustang forum would search for mustang forum. I'm not being a smart alec, it's that I just can't think of much else they would use for search terms.

[JoeT]

What happened to the "Everywhere Sidebar" that listed the last few most recent posts to the forums? Also for the record Google does still use meta tags, but they can also hurt you if they are not done correctly. Keep in mind that believe it or not, not every person uses Google. So therefore the other search bots still use meta tags.

[JoeT]

What happened to the "Everywhere Sidebar" that listed the last few most recent posts to the forums? Also for the record Google does still use meta tags, but they can also hurt you if they are not done correctly. Keep in mind that believe it or not, not every person uses Google. So therefore the other search bots still use meta tags.

No clue why this posted again. but I cant delete sorry....

[BurnTire]

The style got messed up during the last upgrade. I will fix it someday.