Free Sites and google

[Greenguy]

I took a peek at your SE listings & while I'm far from an expert, you do need to read up a bit more on creating your sites so that you have a chance at getting decent listings in the SE's. Some things I saw were:

1 - every title started with 3 dash's:
---Free Site Title---
You don't need the dash's

2 - the text that the SE has with your listing is exactly the same on over 1/2 the listings - and it's the text from your warning area. You can do 2 things:
a - spice up the warning text
b - change around the templates so that a decent description of the site is the text the SE sees

[spacemanspiff]

2 - the text that the SE has with your listing is exactly the same on over 1/2 the listings - and it's the text from your warning area. You can do 2 things:
a - spice up the warning text
b - change around the templates so that a decent description of the site is the text the SE sees

I see this a lot. W/Ms using the same warning text at the top of every site. Probably because it's an easy copy and paste to get something on the page. But it can lead to some pretty spammy results on a site:domain.com search, and more and more everyone is reluctant to link to anything spammy.

That warning crap is not required by law, and I don't know of any LLs that require it. Some require a warning page, but most just want an index.html page of some sort.

Bottom line, if you want SE traffic, and listings on a lot of LLs, then mix things up as much as you can.

Use your templates, but use them wisely, grasshopper.

[MrYum]

I'm in complete agreement with da Spaceman

I've even dropped a couple 'tips' posts on this subject.
Free Site Templates
Free Site Meta Tags Tips hint...these can't hurt you either, if used wisely

Greenie is right too...those hyphens can't be doing you any good.

I'd say your best bet is to get some unique text on future sites. And on every page of every site, change the text. Search engine spiders couldn't care less about pictures/banners/images. It's text they eat, and if they see the same or similar text over and over again...it's no soup for you.

Your templates themselves actually look pretty good, so well done on that front

You wouldn't believe the number of submitters who simply change out the pics and re-submit identical sites

[thetgirls]

Originally Posted by Greenie

a - spice up the warning text

What do you mean with "spice up" ?
Thanks.