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**bitty886** · 09:11 PM

http://www.stevesportszone.com

**ADAM Web Design** · 10-16-2006, 11:50 PM

Honestly, your problem stems much deeper than search engines.

Simply stated, your site is extremely poorly coded.

http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=ht...rtszone.com%2F

The validator only says 22 errors, but there are a great deal more. For example, you have a lot of XML information at the top for no apparent reason.

To be totally honest, people approach me all the time to fix sites like this and I just tell them I can't be bothered because it would take me less time to rebuild it from scratch, and the site would be better.

Worry about your design issues first, and THEN worry about your SEO if you still have to. Design and SEO are a lot more closely tied together than you think.

**geofan49** · 06:14 AM

Maybe, it's just that your potential customers are not searching for things that you have?

What keywords are your potential customers searching on?

What keywords do you want to "own"?

Put those in your URLs, META tags: titles, keywords; webpage text, image tags, etc...

Get some GOOD back-links with your keywords in the hyperlinks, and from pages with PR = 3, 4, or more.

Some of your meta tags have syntax errors...

Look at the title bar in your browser with your home page loaded, for example:

META NAME="Title" CONTENT="<title><title>'Steve's Sports Zone: ...

See the error? What is the <title><title> doing in there?

Could that be throwing off a search engine robot?

Google search results:

Results 1 - 1 of 1 for "sports zone nfl ncaa mlb nba nascar"

www.stevesportszone.com/

Good! You own that keyword string! (For what it's worth... at least Google has your page indexed!)

...

Your search - cache:www.stevesportszone.com/ - did not match any documents.

Why doesn't Googlebot like your website? HTML errors? Keyword spamming? No good back-links?

Make sure you get at least one new (for you), good (PR=3 or more) directory page listing per week!

Find ones that let you specify your keywords in the hyperlinks.

It may take several months to get your home page up to PR2 or better... it takes a lot of careful work.

See https://www.google.com/webmasters/sitemaps/docs/en/about.html

Get your site validation key from Google... Then, check your googlebot reports:

Diagnostics, Statistics, Sitemaps ...

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Search Google:
site:www.stevesportszone.com

Results 1 - 4 of about 6 from www.stevesportszone.com

www.stevesportszone.com/
www.stevesportszone.com/ContactUs.html
www.stevesportszone.com/Memorabilia.html
www.stevesportszone.com/NikeShox.html

OK, not too bad. You're in there! But, you ain't got any PageRank yet...

...

http://www.stevesportszone.com/sitemap.xml

The page cannot be found... create a Google sitemap!

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Results 1 - 92 of about 98 for "stevesportszone.com".

[Looks like your website is out there on a lot of "directories" -- but what is the Google Pagerank of those listings?]

...

It usually takes about 2-3 months to get out of the "Google Sandbox."

How are your search engine hits now?

**geofan49** · 06:59 AM

Check http://www.stevesportszone.com/ with Google toolbar... Pagerank = 0.

Check this too: http://www.iwebtool.com/pagerank_prediction

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Meanwhile...

Did you run your site through that tool? http://www.scrubtheweb.com/abs/meta-check.html

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... unrelated, but see also:

http://www.fun-network.net/

did you notice, in the middle of that webpage:

htt://www.stevesportszone

HTML syntax error? the p in http is missing...