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Out on the newsletter page on the top the phone number and couple other things they were, they weren’t actually text but images whereas in other parts of the site that is text, I think text is always the good way to go there and speaking of images on the community section you are missing alt attributes for some of the images and its always good to have alt attributes where you can present something for users as well as people using text readers. Then also speaking about community section it’s a little bit confusing on the user perspective on actually getting on to the community, main entrance is a large image on the top there is some text below it you can add some navigation on that, the image actually to me it looks like a banner at first . MMM, yeah that’s all I have.

 

Thanks Wynz Jonathan your thoughts.

 

Jonathan Muller: Couple of things hey guys, First thing I see is the http response for 404 pages I get a 200. This could be a problem for crawlers like the googlebot. And I want to look at the, I like this yet and next one is the problem on www and non-www you should distinguish which domain you prefer and rewrite to that one, you can also set that up in webmaster tools. Basically it’s good for all search engines I like to see and have a look at it you have a ton of duplicate URLs. And we describe this because you store this on your first name, a name that is stored by its first name it will go on duplication there. So you have less than 3 or 4 pages with the same card but different URLs that is how the page is stored. You want to take a look at the different types if you care about your pagerank passing to the URLs. Next I want to talk about the sitemap looks like there are some broken URLs in the site map, I want to check all the URLs in your sitemap with a crawler you can find from it where the broken links are the other thing about your sitemap is the text links looks took long you need to see how much depth a search engine can do on crawling a page. I would recommend you check all your pages for errors and some of those problems other than that it’s a great site good job.

 

Ok thanks Jonathan Can we hear from Reed please.

 

Reid: Thanks Adam I just have 2 quick points that I want to point out, First is when I was looking at pictureline.com/community which is one of the community aspect of the website I noticed that when I click on the white link on the bottom it took me to a testimony page what the site is all about, unfortunately I found that all the links that goes to your site picture line community .com which were broken links looks like what you got on here seems like this content will go on over to the directory but the links were not updated. So other helpful tip when you login to webmaster tools you can find out which pages Googlebot has trouble crawling and of course find your pages and update your links. And also I found that there is an identical site which I found on the web its ultimatecamerastore.com, ultimatecamerastore.com is when we look at them is definitely the same website which could make problem with content issues. So those are the 2 things I have. Thanks

 

Adam: So you can see there are lot of things we like about this site as well as we have some constructive suggestions as well one last thing I want to emphasize was despite getting a chance to look at a lot of great sites posted in the groups thread it should be noted that we picked this site also because we thought it had a lot of potential to get a lot of things right, there are lot of things we noted including some constructive criticism I think lot of other sites have issues like this as well, so got to be a big thumbs up to, to the webmaster of this site and keep up the good work and I hope our feedback is helpful, hence we realize that there are whole bunch of things that I gave from many great URLs we found that doing one, we don’t have time to go on an in-depth review of more than one site so we decided to make a bit of a compromise and what we are going to do is do a couple of total random site reviews right now and the first one we are going to do is a really cute dog site, I am going to go and post the URL in the chat. I am going to instruct Evan start talk about that already.

 

Evan: Thanks Adams, I want to say that I am happy to be in chat here today. And I wanted to say that I really appreciate to have everything perfect. Everything looks great I like the content, I like the pictures not too much JavaScript. I would say that you need to do more to describe the images add more context to the images or actually have other text to describe the images because you want people to understand what these images are. My other suggestion would be for you to add more information to explore and also a description can be about the dog

 

Adam: Thanks Evan, One other site we want to talk is pretty cool as well is learningguitarnow.com and the person who is going to talk about that is Wynz.

 

Wynz: Hi talking about your site I think it’s an awesome service and you have great content there and I noticed a blog, e-book and the skype online lessons which is pretty cool. And I don’t think you need much may be ill try it on someday but having all that content is good I think this is the type of site people want to link to. Also you have descriptive things about your service which is pretty good few things your footers and your headers redirect mainly to your www domain. I don’t think its happening now probably you changed that before the chat I think I am just curious. Something I would recommend thought I would add a sitemap if you have it already satisfy conditions on your robots.txt and which when I go to your site can adjust. Search engines know more of your contents certainly good job of the blog you have that’s a lot of fresh content and so that I can top this, You can get more information about this and set in robots.txt file so that everyone know where to find your sitemap. Talking about your blog specifically I noticifed you are missing alt attributes and the image tags you are running wordpress, which is pretty easy to fix also speaking of wordpress I noticed that you are not running quite the latest versions so I recommend you upgrade blog for security reasons. We can also search your blog for security checklist some more suggestions on that regard. Couple of other things for users you have a PowerPoint and they have direct links I think which is great lot of people use that you may also want to post the actual link of the URL so that people using other software to get on context, I guess you do this on your blog yahoo link and Google link I think yahoo has 300 links just try to duplicate something like that one other quick tip is saw that you have in your blog a youtube video which is great I just also recommend also adding an html link to that video so that is someone is using iphone or something to view the video can still encode it so that the video can be viewed in that specific device. And that’s all see you in the group.