Sprint Total
08-02-2004, 11:13 AM
Hi all,
I'm adding my site to review because i'm having some problem with some SEO issues.
My website is about Tuning, Car Audio, InCar Enterteinment (http://www.sprinttotal.com) and related info. I had a PR5 on my old URL, now i'm PR4 (my site is listed in DMOZ since 02/07/2004). The actual URL is now www.sprinttotal.com (http://www.sprinttotal.com). The website doesn't even validate at W3C, but it works in IE, Mozilla and Opera (my default browser). It's the most visited in Portugal about that theme.
In December 2003 i've changed my URL from www.sprinttotal.co.pt to www.sprinttotal.com (i've used this url once, about 3 years ago, now will be final). At that time I didn't understand nothing about SEO (i was at the top ten in some search querys 'cause I was lucky, I had that article, no other tuning and audio site had it so the visitors search and came to me...). When I changed my domain I parked it in my new domain, I guess I got someway penalized about that (duplicate content) but now it's correctly redirected using a 301.
My objective was getting a .pt TLD domain for my website, but it was too expensive (about $25 for asking to register it and more $80 for 2 years, .com was the way to go!).
I have a huge problem, now when I search for "Sprint Total (http://www.sprinttotal.com)" in www.google.pt, searching for only in Portuguese (really, from Portugal, not Brasil) my website don't appear at all. In the old times my site appeared 'cause it had .pt, but i've seen some .com's on that search type.
I've added to my html code the following:
<html lang="pt">
<meta http-equiv="content-language" content="pt">
The first one is a little buggy, at least some validators don't like it (W3C doesn't give an error to it). I think this is the correct way to say to Google "Look, my website is from Portugal, but I use a .com".
Also, what should I use in coding, " or ' ?
I have a, bad bad bad, website map, wich is visible if your browser doesn't support iframes. http://www.sprinttotal.com/sitemap.php
The design is way diferent from the website layout, but since the user doesn't see iframes or he/she is using a really old browser or have iframes off (and for sure lots of other things.) At least it validates at W3C.
The major keywords i'm optimizing for are Tuning, Audio, Car Audio and Styling (http://www.sprinttotal.com/main.php).
I won't write more, but I have some more doubts. This message is really long now. Thanks for your pacience and attention if you read and/or reply to this topic!
I'm adding my site to review because i'm having some problem with some SEO issues.
My website is about Tuning, Car Audio, InCar Enterteinment (http://www.sprinttotal.com) and related info. I had a PR5 on my old URL, now i'm PR4 (my site is listed in DMOZ since 02/07/2004). The actual URL is now www.sprinttotal.com (http://www.sprinttotal.com). The website doesn't even validate at W3C, but it works in IE, Mozilla and Opera (my default browser). It's the most visited in Portugal about that theme.
In December 2003 i've changed my URL from www.sprinttotal.co.pt to www.sprinttotal.com (i've used this url once, about 3 years ago, now will be final). At that time I didn't understand nothing about SEO (i was at the top ten in some search querys 'cause I was lucky, I had that article, no other tuning and audio site had it so the visitors search and came to me...). When I changed my domain I parked it in my new domain, I guess I got someway penalized about that (duplicate content) but now it's correctly redirected using a 301.
My objective was getting a .pt TLD domain for my website, but it was too expensive (about $25 for asking to register it and more $80 for 2 years, .com was the way to go!).
I have a huge problem, now when I search for "Sprint Total (http://www.sprinttotal.com)" in www.google.pt, searching for only in Portuguese (really, from Portugal, not Brasil) my website don't appear at all. In the old times my site appeared 'cause it had .pt, but i've seen some .com's on that search type.
I've added to my html code the following:
<html lang="pt">
<meta http-equiv="content-language" content="pt">
The first one is a little buggy, at least some validators don't like it (W3C doesn't give an error to it). I think this is the correct way to say to Google "Look, my website is from Portugal, but I use a .com".
Also, what should I use in coding, " or ' ?
I have a, bad bad bad, website map, wich is visible if your browser doesn't support iframes. http://www.sprinttotal.com/sitemap.php
The design is way diferent from the website layout, but since the user doesn't see iframes or he/she is using a really old browser or have iframes off (and for sure lots of other things.) At least it validates at W3C.
The major keywords i'm optimizing for are Tuning, Audio, Car Audio and Styling (http://www.sprinttotal.com/main.php).
I won't write more, but I have some more doubts. This message is really long now. Thanks for your pacience and attention if you read and/or reply to this topic!