boron
02-28-2007, 10:43 AM
Site review for http://www.greenwoodsvillage.com/
SITE OPENS in few seconds on T1 connection. But loading speed test (http://www.websiteoptimization.com/services/analyze/wso.php?url=http://www.greenwoodsvillage.com/) shows, it can take over 30 seconds on a 56K modem. Home page size is 146Kb which can be one reason for slow speed. Consider to remove some images from Home page, or change flashes into regular jpg images. The same apply for marquee on the top.
Server speed test (http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/dnstime.ch?name=greenwoodsvillage.com%2F&type=A) (DNS timing) give very different results on repeated checking so I can't tell if it is slow or not.
Here's another test (http://r.netmechanic.com/toolbox/summary.cgi?f=f/117/058/2359/01-13355/&s=NetMechanic&fv=5&ft=3) which shows speed, spelling errors, HTML errors.
FIRST LOOK IMPRESSION: Site looks green. It is understandable that you tried to match a color and the title, but this solution doesn't work great. Green title or green colored parts of text (not all) may work better.
DESIGN:
You can select an image which will offer a little wider panoramic look on the village. Other images on the site are not necessary.
You can point the top important thing on the site and make a short introduction text. You can put the subtitle which will give the feeling of the nature of the site.
Opera, Firefox, Conqueror and Safari browsers (http://browsershots.org/website/http://www.greenwoodsvillage.com/) show your site ok.
NAVIGATION:
I suggest you place right menu on the left and bottom one on the top. Have you thought about getting a free or custom made template for your site?
Vilage square link should be named "Home" - so visitor will find his way back to the Home page easily.
CONTENT:
In the reading room you have parts of stories from some famous writers. Are you sure you have copyright for this?
Opening this link (http://www.greenwoodsvillage.com/story/raven.php) puts some errors on the screen.
This page (Rules For Reducing A Great Empire To A Small One) is missing.
There is ? instead of ' in this article (http://www.greenwoodsvillage.com/rr2.php). You can quickly check spelling of all your pages with this (http://NETMECHANIC.com/products/HTML_Toolbox_FreeSample.shtml) spell checker.
You definitely have some content on your site. Articles related to SEO and Money making provide some information but are far from a comprehensive source. You are trying to cover many topics. If you intend to continue this way, you should provide detailed and exact basics otherwise there will be always something missing. I'd suggest you to consider to chose one main topic and develope it well.
Greenwoods Village is in Phillipines, right? It won't hurt if you mention this somewhere on the site.
SEO REVIEW:
PR = 0
Backlinks for www. greenwoodsvillage.com : 3 in Yahoo (http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/search?p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.greenwoodsvillage.com%2F&bwm=i&bwms=p&bwmf=u&fr=fp-tab-web-t&fr2=seo-rd-se), 0 in Google, 8 in MSN (http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?FORM=MSNH&q=link%3Awww.greenwoodsvillage.com/).
Indexed pages: Yahoo: 67 (http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/advsearch?p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.greenwoodsvillage.com %2F&bwm=p&bwmf=u), Google: 11 (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&q=site%3Awww.greenwoodsvillage.com/+%22%2Bwww.greenwoodsvillage.com/%22&btnG=Search) but 81 (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&q=site%3Agreenwoodsvillage.com%2F+%22%2Bgreenwoods village.com%2F%22&btnG=Search) for no-www domain. Consider to make a 301 redirect from www to no-www domain.
Keyword analyzis: (http://www.submitexpress.com/cgi-bin/analyzer/meta.pl?url=http://www.greenwoodsvillage.com/) << Check :)
First - spiders see title of a site as: "homebased business information music and games entertainments, home and kitchen information, spiritual studies and much, much more at Greenwoods Village!" which is very long and Google will very well consider it as spam. Shorten it to 2-4 words at most..
Keywords in Meta tag: "free books, library, music, games, arcade, software, recipes, celtic music, opinion forums, surveys, work at home, online business, make money, internet shopping, marketing, business, Universal Life Church, alternative religion, nondenominational, nonsectarian, kitchen tips." >>> Search engines DO NOT crawl Meta tag keywords so this will not help you in rankings in any way.
You have to decide for whick keyword(s) you want to optimize your site. Chose one main keyword phrase and one in addition.
Google position for "greenwoodsvilage" : #1 (http://www.google.com/search?as_q=greenwoodsvillage&num={10}&ie=UTF-8&btnG=Google+Search&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&lr=&as_ft=i&as_filetype=&as_qdr=all&as_nlo=&as_nhi=&as_occt=any&as_dt=i&as_sitesearch=&safe=images&start=0). (not among first 1,000 for "greenwoods village")
Yahoo position for "greenwoodsvillage" : #1 and #2 (http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=greenwoodsvillage&fr=yfp-t-501&toggle=1&cop=mss&ei=UTF-8):) . "greenwoods vilage" : #2 (http://search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=A0oGkmVfjeZFh_AAQx1XNyoA?p=greenwoods+ village&ei=UTF-8&fr=yfp-t-501&x=wrt).
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CONCLUSION:
Site gives a look of a "text site" which can repel many visitors who will assume it's a "newbie" site. Consider to reduce gren color on the home page. Home page size should be decreased under 100Kb, remove all flashes (I suggest all images except the one in the header). Make 301 redirect so all backlinks will point to one domain (www or no-www - it's your choise).
These are only basic comments. If you want to make a good site which will be User friendly and Search engine friendly, you will need to redesign it, remove some content and add more comprehensive information on topics you want to cover.
SITE OPENS in few seconds on T1 connection. But loading speed test (http://www.websiteoptimization.com/services/analyze/wso.php?url=http://www.greenwoodsvillage.com/) shows, it can take over 30 seconds on a 56K modem. Home page size is 146Kb which can be one reason for slow speed. Consider to remove some images from Home page, or change flashes into regular jpg images. The same apply for marquee on the top.
Server speed test (http://www.dnsstuff.com/tools/dnstime.ch?name=greenwoodsvillage.com%2F&type=A) (DNS timing) give very different results on repeated checking so I can't tell if it is slow or not.
Here's another test (http://r.netmechanic.com/toolbox/summary.cgi?f=f/117/058/2359/01-13355/&s=NetMechanic&fv=5&ft=3) which shows speed, spelling errors, HTML errors.
FIRST LOOK IMPRESSION: Site looks green. It is understandable that you tried to match a color and the title, but this solution doesn't work great. Green title or green colored parts of text (not all) may work better.
DESIGN:
You can select an image which will offer a little wider panoramic look on the village. Other images on the site are not necessary.
You can point the top important thing on the site and make a short introduction text. You can put the subtitle which will give the feeling of the nature of the site.
Opera, Firefox, Conqueror and Safari browsers (http://browsershots.org/website/http://www.greenwoodsvillage.com/) show your site ok.
NAVIGATION:
I suggest you place right menu on the left and bottom one on the top. Have you thought about getting a free or custom made template for your site?
Vilage square link should be named "Home" - so visitor will find his way back to the Home page easily.
CONTENT:
In the reading room you have parts of stories from some famous writers. Are you sure you have copyright for this?
Opening this link (http://www.greenwoodsvillage.com/story/raven.php) puts some errors on the screen.
This page (Rules For Reducing A Great Empire To A Small One) is missing.
There is ? instead of ' in this article (http://www.greenwoodsvillage.com/rr2.php). You can quickly check spelling of all your pages with this (http://NETMECHANIC.com/products/HTML_Toolbox_FreeSample.shtml) spell checker.
You definitely have some content on your site. Articles related to SEO and Money making provide some information but are far from a comprehensive source. You are trying to cover many topics. If you intend to continue this way, you should provide detailed and exact basics otherwise there will be always something missing. I'd suggest you to consider to chose one main topic and develope it well.
Greenwoods Village is in Phillipines, right? It won't hurt if you mention this somewhere on the site.
SEO REVIEW:
PR = 0
Backlinks for www. greenwoodsvillage.com : 3 in Yahoo (http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/search?p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.greenwoodsvillage.com%2F&bwm=i&bwms=p&bwmf=u&fr=fp-tab-web-t&fr2=seo-rd-se), 0 in Google, 8 in MSN (http://search.msn.com/results.aspx?FORM=MSNH&q=link%3Awww.greenwoodsvillage.com/).
Indexed pages: Yahoo: 67 (http://siteexplorer.search.yahoo.com/advsearch?p=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.greenwoodsvillage.com %2F&bwm=p&bwmf=u), Google: 11 (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&q=site%3Awww.greenwoodsvillage.com/+%22%2Bwww.greenwoodsvillage.com/%22&btnG=Search) but 81 (http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&c2coff=1&q=site%3Agreenwoodsvillage.com%2F+%22%2Bgreenwoods village.com%2F%22&btnG=Search) for no-www domain. Consider to make a 301 redirect from www to no-www domain.
Keyword analyzis: (http://www.submitexpress.com/cgi-bin/analyzer/meta.pl?url=http://www.greenwoodsvillage.com/) << Check :)
First - spiders see title of a site as: "homebased business information music and games entertainments, home and kitchen information, spiritual studies and much, much more at Greenwoods Village!" which is very long and Google will very well consider it as spam. Shorten it to 2-4 words at most..
Keywords in Meta tag: "free books, library, music, games, arcade, software, recipes, celtic music, opinion forums, surveys, work at home, online business, make money, internet shopping, marketing, business, Universal Life Church, alternative religion, nondenominational, nonsectarian, kitchen tips." >>> Search engines DO NOT crawl Meta tag keywords so this will not help you in rankings in any way.
You have to decide for whick keyword(s) you want to optimize your site. Chose one main keyword phrase and one in addition.
Google position for "greenwoodsvilage" : #1 (http://www.google.com/search?as_q=greenwoodsvillage&num={10}&ie=UTF-8&btnG=Google+Search&as_epq=&as_oq=&as_eq=&lr=&as_ft=i&as_filetype=&as_qdr=all&as_nlo=&as_nhi=&as_occt=any&as_dt=i&as_sitesearch=&safe=images&start=0). (not among first 1,000 for "greenwoods village")
Yahoo position for "greenwoodsvillage" : #1 and #2 (http://search.yahoo.com/search?p=greenwoodsvillage&fr=yfp-t-501&toggle=1&cop=mss&ei=UTF-8):) . "greenwoods vilage" : #2 (http://search.yahoo.com/search;_ylt=A0oGkmVfjeZFh_AAQx1XNyoA?p=greenwoods+ village&ei=UTF-8&fr=yfp-t-501&x=wrt).
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CONCLUSION:
Site gives a look of a "text site" which can repel many visitors who will assume it's a "newbie" site. Consider to reduce gren color on the home page. Home page size should be decreased under 100Kb, remove all flashes (I suggest all images except the one in the header). Make 301 redirect so all backlinks will point to one domain (www or no-www - it's your choise).
These are only basic comments. If you want to make a good site which will be User friendly and Search engine friendly, you will need to redesign it, remove some content and add more comprehensive information on topics you want to cover.