Hi folks.  I threw together a static website for a friend and made
modifications to the html source in hopes of increasing search engine
results.  He currently shows up on page 7 of a google search, so those
are pleasing results at least at this point.

The two main things I did to drive traffic were include some extra meta
tags and alter the no-script section with a static webpage so that
crawlers have more text to go through (and so that something shows up in
case users have js turned off).  I'll give it a week and then add
microdata tags to that section and see if it yields any decent results.

I know a lot of folks don't view EWB as a website builder, but I plan to
use it for all facets of a web app --homepage, db-applications, etc.

I guess what I'm saying is EWB does it all, so don't discount it's
ability to do the 'simple stuff' too!  Thanks --feedback on the page
more than welcome.

-Dan

On 6/11/2013 4:49 PM, Dan Collins wrote:
> Hi folks.  I threw together a static website for a friend and made
> modifications to the html source in hopes of increasing search engine
> results.  He currently shows up on page 7 of a google search, so those
> are pleasing results at least at this point.
>
> The two main things I did to drive traffic were include some extra meta
> tags and alter the no-script section with a static webpage so that
> crawlers have more text to go through (and so that something shows up in
> case users have js turned off).  I'll give it a week and then add
> microdata tags to that section and see if it yields any decent results.
>
> I know a lot of folks don't view EWB as a website builder, but I plan to
> use it for all facets of a web app --homepage, db-applications, etc.
>
> I guess what I'm saying is EWB does it all, so don't discount it's
> ability to do the 'simple stuff' too!  Thanks --feedback on the page
> more than welcome.
>
> -Dan
Oh yeah...

http://www.butlercarpetcleaning.net/

This might help.

Dan


That looks rather nice. The only thing I would criticise it for is I get scroll bars in my browser.

Roy Lambert

PS: Why isn't your website done using EWB

>
> http://www.butlercarpetcleaning.net/

It looks nice, but I think I'd want to be making better use of the capability to
justify it. You could do that using plain HTML, and it would be more SEO friendly.

/Matthew Jones/

On 6/12/2013 4:35 AM, (Matthew Jones) wrote:
>>
>> http://www.butlercarpetcleaning.net/
>
> It looks nice, but I think I'd want to be making better use of the capability to
> justify it. You could do that using plain HTML, and it would be more SEO friendly.
>
> /Matthew Jones/
>

Roy:
Thanks for the feedback.  We actually plan to redo our site using EWB at
some point, but unfortunately that's of low priority for us right now.

Matthew:
<<You could do that using plain HTML, and it would be more SEO friendly.>>

I certainly agree.  However, I'm still trying to treat EWB like a
'one-stop-shop', and hoping that the 'SEO friendliness' of EWB vs. html
heavy sites becomes an insignificant factor when designing a project.
Thanks to you as well for your feedback.

-Dan