seo guy
09-25-2004, 05:23 PM
Hey guys I am currently auditing the Gas & Electricity pages of one of our clients http://www.uswitch.com you can see the majority of our important pages relevant to Gas & Electricity by going dow the first column of our http://www.uswitch.com/sitemap.asp
Now, I am spending all weekend going through these pages with a fine tooth comb for code errors, SEO mistakes etc and would really appreciate anyone with time to perhaps pick a page, take a look at the code and let me know if they see anything that jumps out.
I really dont want to miss anything as I will be pushing this vertical once our team is satisfied that we have a perfect website.
You may notice URLS such as
http://www.uswitch.com/Energy/help/why/choices.asp?ref=
and of course your first suggestion would be to turf the ?ref=whatever and not to worry it is already handled on the server side Google sees just http://www.uswitch.com/Energy/help/why/choices.asp
One of the things I am interested in comments on is the use of 100% height and width in a few images on pages such as http://www.uswitch.com/CreditCards/Help/CCH-Credit-Card-UK.aspx well really I think they use the height and width at 100% on all pages. Code looks like this <img src="../Images/s.gif" alt="" width="100%" height="100%" border="0"/>
Now the reason it is a concern as it takes up an entire screen In certain view source situations and might be construed as trying to hide something (Which we are clearly not, its just the way the designer made it for usability)
I know there are a few pieces of CSS and Javascript still to be removed etc
Any and all help you guys can offer is appreciated, you know what they say 1300+ heads are better then one right
Now, I am spending all weekend going through these pages with a fine tooth comb for code errors, SEO mistakes etc and would really appreciate anyone with time to perhaps pick a page, take a look at the code and let me know if they see anything that jumps out.
I really dont want to miss anything as I will be pushing this vertical once our team is satisfied that we have a perfect website.
You may notice URLS such as
http://www.uswitch.com/Energy/help/why/choices.asp?ref=
and of course your first suggestion would be to turf the ?ref=whatever and not to worry it is already handled on the server side Google sees just http://www.uswitch.com/Energy/help/why/choices.asp
One of the things I am interested in comments on is the use of 100% height and width in a few images on pages such as http://www.uswitch.com/CreditCards/Help/CCH-Credit-Card-UK.aspx well really I think they use the height and width at 100% on all pages. Code looks like this <img src="../Images/s.gif" alt="" width="100%" height="100%" border="0"/>
Now the reason it is a concern as it takes up an entire screen In certain view source situations and might be construed as trying to hide something (Which we are clearly not, its just the way the designer made it for usability)
I know there are a few pieces of CSS and Javascript still to be removed etc
Any and all help you guys can offer is appreciated, you know what they say 1300+ heads are better then one right