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    Falling in Google

    Hi guys,

    Just after any tips/pointers on how I can improve my site for performance on Google for the keywords 'chess forum' and 'chess forums'. Nowhere to be seen for chess forum, and was upto no.8 for chess forums but fallen back to 11/12 now?

    Chess Forums .org - Chess Forums Community

    Thanks in advance,
    Greg

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    your meta tags are very spammy.
    <meta name="keywords" content="chess,chess forum,chess forums,chess talk,chess chat,discuss chess,chess strategy,chess tips" />

    i'd change them to actual keywords instead of "spam".


    move your CSS to be linked in the file system, not inline.

    your skin is also killing you.
    tons of inline attributes, and non-semantic markup on a lot of it, no H1's, tons of h2's.., plus it doesn't validate.
    Validation Results - W3C Markup Validator

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    Thanks for your reply briansol,

    I will definitely reseacrh and target the keywords a little better! I had just put them in on day one, and forgetten to update them!

    With regards to the skin its one I purchased from Forum Monkeys, again was planning for it to be a temporary thing, until I could afford something better, so not sure what to do about that side of things

    Thanks,
    Greg

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    Just completed a re-design based on a new forum skin, what do you think of the design now?

    It still has some errors, will this affect things much? (think theres 11 validation errors)

    Thanks,
    Greg

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