Please Review www.LowPriceSkates.com

[lowpriceskates]

Hi. Will you please tell me what you think?
lowpriceskates.com
Our keywords:
roller skates
speed skates
quad speed skates
inline speed skates
quad skates
discount skates
quad roller skates
etc...

We've used MonsterCommerce's SEO division to create some search engine pages which are linked at the very bottom of our pages. I'm not sure how effective those are. :confused:
Also, I've recently added the big keywords in the very top right and I'm starting to add some keyword filled text on our category pages
Click on "quad skates" for an example

So, what do you think?
Thanks!!!

PS: Oh, and I wanted to add that our of our biggest competitors, SkateMall.com, recently got bumped up to a PR5, while we are still at PR4. Any ideas why?
Thanks!

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Michael
Low Price Skates (http://www.lowpriceskates.com)

[dilligaf]

Michael, Welcome to the forums. It looks like a good effort to me a quick look and a couple of questions/suggestions...
Your page titles on several pages are the same, you may want to focus on a specific keywords for those pages. (eg about us etc same as home page and a few others)
On pages like "specials"... what would people looking for these items type in to a SE? (eg skate wheels, bumbers... sorry for the bad examples but I've no clue)
Joc's table trick would move your main body text closer to the top
It looks like you're combining external CSS with inline styles, just curious

Overall looks like a good effort, maybe time for a serious link campaign.

"Oh, and I wanted to add that our of our biggest competitors, SkateMall.com, recently got bumped up to a PR5, while we are still at PR4. Any ideas why?" PR is a function of their backlinks, either they've got more or better.

[lowpriceskates]

[QUOTE=dilligaf]Michael, Welcome to the forums. It looks like a good effort to me a quick look and a couple of questions/suggestions...
Your page titles on several pages are the same, you may want to focus on a specific keywords for those pages. (eg about us etc same as home page and a few others)
On pages like "specials"... what would people looking for these items type in to a SE? (eg skate wheels, bumbers... sorry for the bad examples but I've no clue)
Joc's table trick would move your main body text closer to the top
It looks like you're combining external CSS with inline styles, just curious

Overall looks like a good effort, maybe time for a serious link campaign.

"Oh, and I wanted to add that our of our biggest competitors, SkateMall.com, recently got bumped up to a PR5, while we are still at PR4. Any ideas why?" PR is a function of their backlinks, either they've got more or better.[/QUOTE]

Thanks for your reply.

I've been told that changing the product names would help, but I'm reluctant because I think it would just totally clutter the site and ruin the appearance.
Example: I use "Carrera" instead of "Carrera Quad Speed Roller Skates", which would probably be more search engine friendly.
Do you think it's really worth changing everything?

About the titles on individual pages, I really have no control over them. Our shopping cart software, MonsterCommerce, handles all of that.... for better or worse?

What's Joc's table trick?

Do you have any idea how often Google updates it's backlinks and such things? The last update was 06.25.2004, right?
We have gained several since then. Hopefully they update soon.
Thanks again for your reply.

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Michael
Low Price Skates (http://www.lowpriceskates.com)

[dilligaf]

[QUOTE=lowpriceskates]I've been told that changing the product names would help, but I'm reluctant because I think it would just totally clutter the site and ruin the appearance.
Example: I use "Carrera" instead of "Carrera Quad Speed Roller Skates", which would probably be more search engine friendly.
Do you think it's really worth changing everything?

About the titles on individual pages, I really have no control over them. Our shopping cart software, MonsterCommerce, handles all of that.... for better or worse?

What's Joc's table trick?

Do you have any idea how often Google updates it's backlinks and such things? The last update was 06.25.2004, right?
We have gained several since then. Hopefully they update soon.
Thanks again for your reply.
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Regarding your product names: you know you site and it's visitors. I wouldn't encourage you to do anything that may reduce their satisfaction/ease of viewing etc.

Regarding titles, I'm not familiar with monster commerce but it seems those titles have to come from descriptions that you've entered and it's arguably, outside of backlinks, the single most important aspect. Have a look, I'm likely wrong, but it can't hurt.

Joc's table trick uses an empty table cel (or shim) in the left column to have the spider read the center column first. I'll see if I can dig up a link if he doesn't kick in. The best solution, however would likely be with CSS. Complainer offers some CSS suggestions (http://www.seo-guy.com/forum/thread1451.html) in this thread.

Regarding updates... it's in the wind. Check back regularly and look for a Google thread that starts "Whopeeee" or "This really sucks" (smiley here)

[lowpriceskates]

[QUOTE=dilligaf]Joc's table trick uses an empty table cel (or shim) in the left column to have the spider read the center column first. I'll see if I can dig up a link if he doesn't kick in.[/QUOTE]

Any word on this, dilligaf?
Thanks!! =)

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Michael
Quad Speed Skates (http://www.lowpriceskates.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWCATS&Category=15)

[dilligaf]

Joc's Table Trick (http://www.seo-guy.com/forum/showthread.php?p=9174#post9174)

[lowpriceskates]

[QUOTE=dilligaf]Joc's Table Trick (http://www.seo-guy.com/forum/showthread.php?p=9174#post9174)[/QUOTE]

Thanks!!

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Michael
Roller Skates (http://www.lowpriceskates.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWCATS&Category=23)

[lowpriceskates]

Ok, I'm trying to optomise my product titles, but I'm not sure what to do....
[example in signature]
I think it looks better to just say "Shaker" as the name of the skate, but I imagine that for SEO purposes that it's better to say "Shaker Quad Speed Skates", right?
Well, I tried putting a br in between the two and bolding the main title, but I'm not sure if it will still do any good?
Your opinion?
Thanks!!

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Michael
Quad Speed Skates (http://www.lowpriceskates.com/index.asp?PageAction=VIEWCATS&Category=15)

[dilligaf]

[QUOTE=lowpriceskates]Ok, I'm trying to optomise my product titles, but I'm not sure what to do....
[example in signature]
I think it looks better to just say "Shaker" as the name of the skate, but I imagine that for SEO purposes that it's better to say "Shaker Quad Speed Skates", right?
Well, I tried putting a br in between the two and bolding the main title, but I'm not sure if it will still do any good?
Your opinion?
Thanks!!

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Michael
[/QUOTE]
Did you look into those page titles? (More important than other on-page stuff)
I looked but didn't see what you were talking about with product names. Generally if it makes sense for the viewer and isn't repeated 25 times... what the hell

We should let this thread die as you've started a new one with the same question (or cache the other one). My preference is to keep them in the same thread, until it gets too $#%@'n long so contributers can find out what's been dicussed.