Critique request

Joe Ward ask that I post this issue

Any input would be appreciated

Pets Warehouse

Forum post not appearing on SE.

Thanks

Bob

• You should choose either www or non-www for your site, so that only one is permitted:
  
  • [How to] Setup www.yourdomain.com or yourdomain.com (www vs. non-www) - With .htaccess 301 redirects
• Your nav links seem to have two images here, one linked, and one not:
  
  • Pets Warehouse
• I clicked the forums from the above blog page and got an error page:
  
  • http://www.pets-warehouse.com/vbportal/index.php?
• Forum homepage has generic welcome message. Should convert this into topic specific message and link some of the keywords to other parts of your site.
• Should remove the redundant login form on the forum homepage.
• I prefer to remove the link to the FAQ (it's generic and not much help, but consumes a link).
• I think you should turn off your footer archive links. There are 48 and I personally think that is too many.
• Consider moving your CSS definitions embedded in the page to an external file.
• The generic welcome message at the top of every page is detrimental to your SEO.
• I would get rid of the calendar and FAQ links in the navigation, at least for guest users.
• You have a lot of validation errors that could be fixed:
  
  • [Invalid] Markup Validation of http://forum.pets-warehouse.com/ - W3C Markup Validator
• I think you should remove "Pet Forums" from the title of all of your sub-forum and thread pages. If you keep it, you should at least move it to the right side of the title for the sub-forums.
• How is your long tail traffic?
  
  • Measuring Your Long Tail - vBulletin SEO Forums

I took care of the www v non thru Goole tools.

Is there an email I contact you at?


Or email me

Thanks
Bob

Please send me a PM Bob.

Hi Joe, PM sent, got an auto reply???

Please check

You should choose either www or non-www for your site, so that only one is permitted:
Done

Your nav links seem to have two images here, one linked, and one not: Not sure what you refer to?

I clicked the forums from the above blog page and got an error page: That will be fixed

Forum homepage has generic welcome message. Gone
Should convert this into topic specific message and link some of the keywords to other parts of your site. Not sure how to do this

Should remove the redundant login form on the forum homepage.
Done
I prefer to remove the link to the FAQ (it's generic and not much help, but consumes a link). Done
I think you should turn off your footer archive links. There are 48 and I personally think that is too many. I can't login to the admin lost PW???
Consider moving your CSS definitions embedded in the page to an external file. ??
The generic welcome message at the top of every page is detrimental to your SEO. Removed
I would get rid of the calendar and FAQ links in the navigation, at least for guest users. Done
You have a lot of validation errors that could be fixed:

• I will work on that.

I think you should remove "Pet Forums" from the title of all of your sub-forum and thread pages. Done
If you keep it, you should at least move it to the right side of the title for the sub-forums.
How is your long tail traffic? That will take some time to work on.



Joe, Did you get my PM?


Thanks
Bob

Hello Bob,
Sorry For My Late Reply

• you have problem with your forumhome title

I think you should turn off your footer archive links. There are 48 and I personally think that is too many. I can't login to the admin lost PW???

Check Out : vBSEO File:config vbseo php/Reset Password - VBSEO Wiki

Originally Posted by marco1

Hello Bob,
Sorry For My Late Reply

• you have problem with your forumhome title

Ok, I have that pw reset.

1. where is the problem with the forum home title?
in vbulletin or vbseo exactly where should I change it and what do you suggest it be changed to?

2. "turn off your footer archive links" should I have any opion select or just turm them off?

3. I sent Joe a PM with a question has he received it?

4. how important to seo is WC3 validator, most sites are not compliant?


Thanks

Bob

Originally Posted by LI Pets

1. where is the problem with the forum home title?

You don't have one. Admin CP > vBulletin Options > Site Name / URL / Contact Details > Forum Name What do you see there?

2. "turn off your footer archive links" should I have any opion select or just turm them off?

Just leave them turned off.

3. I sent Joe a PM with a question has he received it?

If you got the auto-reply, he received it.

4. how important to seo is WC3 validator, most sites are not compliant?

Actually, the question is how do the spiders react when they run into faulty code? It costs nothing to clean up the code so it will validate.

I hope this helps.

W3 valid code is VERY important.

One bad tag can ruin everything.

HTML is a top-down approach. one bad tag above ruins everything below.

take, <div><p>some stuff.... <h1>title</h1> </div>

because the <p> is not closed (and an h1 cannot be inside a p), from a top down approach, you have zero h1 at all, as it's still being read as a p.... along with everything after it until the next closing p.

Clean code is VERY important.

Originally Posted by Mike54

You don't have one. Admin CP > vBulletin Options > Site Name / URL / Contact Details > Forum Name What do you see there?


Just leave them turned off.


If you got the auto-reply, he received it.


Actually, the question is how do the spiders react when they run into faulty code? It costs nothing to clean up the code so it will validate.

I hope this helps.

I thought Joe was suggesting leaving forum name blank, I mis understood.

What do you suggest there? "Pets Warehouse Pet Forums"

Is there and software that will clean the pages to comply or give suggested corrections?


Thanks
Bob

Hi Bob - this is what I was referring to:
[How To] Remove Forum Title from Thread Pages for Long Tail Optimization / Increased Thread Title Relevancy

Got it

Thanks again.

Bob

Originally Posted by briansol

W3 valid code is VERY important.

One bad tag can ruin everything.

HTML is a top-down approach. one bad tag above ruins everything below.

take, <div><p>some stuff.... <h1>title</h1> </div>

because the <p> is not closed (and an h1 cannot be inside a p), from a top down approach, you have zero h1 at all, as it's still being read as a p.... along with everything after it until the next closing p.

Clean code is VERY important.

Brian isn't this done with "Clean up Markup with HTML Tidy"

I tried it on a few pages they had about 100 errors each, and it scrubbed them?

HTML Cleanup just removes comments. The only way to get rid of validation errors is to have a programmer or designer with advanced HTML/CSS knowledge fix the broken parts.