I don't get this. Can someone look?

[rsalan]

I'm stumped.

My site has been "out there" for quite some time and I've done a pretty fair job of keeping it findable.

Several months ago, well many months ago, I added a new section. "Crafts."
Which is a page with several links to my various crafts pages.
The page in question today is one all about the polymer clay canes I've been making.
It's nothing but pictures of each one. Keywords are peppered through out the page, and on my index page. I have actually submitted my clay canes page directly to google. Plenty of time has passed and it's not being picked up!

(I'm not spamming here, but surely someone will want to see the page I'm talking about.) From my index page, ArtmakersWorlds.com click crafts, click polymer clay canes.
Brings you here. artmakersworlds.com/PolymerClayCanes.shtml

So... doing a search on google. (searching images) Nothing. Nada.
Well actually that's not entirely true. IF I tack onto my "polymer clay cane" search my site domain name, artmakersworlds which NO ONE would actually do,
this is really odd. Only a one cane set I have on my etsy shop shows up.
As do a few other items of mine on etsy, including one that has nothing to do with polymer clay.
And.... WHY are slices of one of my web site graphics showing up in a search at all?
Bits of my navigation thingy are coming up. but no canes.



So... last night I tried the same search on yahoo.
Seems yahoo ONLY wants to index it's own flickr sites. Even if I put -flickr or "not flickr" tried the advance search with no flickr, no good. ALL I get are images stored on flickr.
(maybe I need to set up shop there.)

Finally I tried MSN today. Low and behold, just a few of mine actually show up on the top row. My GOD did MSN get something right? lol.


Does anyone have a clue why google won't see this page?
Is it because it's three pages in? Well gee, my etsy is one of countless thousands and it found that.
Is it the SHTML I use?
Years ago I knew using long winded java scripts was death, I like the cool factor though so keep my fancy nav bar. But is that really what's killing me here?

Anyone have a clue?

[mshah]

you have big problems.

remove the link exchange at the bottom of the page

remove the die spammers stuff, its hidden text and serves no purpose,

remove the webring

remove all the spammer verbage on the contact page and every page .

do not manually submit to search engines, let your site be crawled.

your site architecture is old. (netscape 98) You may want to use something more current to build the site.

Your scripting is really bad. Good code is part of the algo and your coding is keeping your pages from getting crawed.

You are diffidently taking penalties on this site.

please don't take this bad, I know you have a do-it-yourself site and you are very proud of it and you had a lot of fun building it. But...in my experienced opinion, its a do over from scratch. We cannot fix all of this in a discussion forum.

Search engine ranking is a competitive field. Just like in sports and business, the biggest, best funded, most skilled, always win. Your competitors are doing a better job than you. You cannot compete on your current skill level.

Have you considered a website building class at your local learning annex or community college?

I'm sorry for my bluntness, I know this is not the answer you wanted.

[irahat]

You have multiple redundant header tags. You have 2 titles in the same index page. Clean up your code. Discard the comments and jettison the bottom link referral banner.

Your site has been online from 04-jan-2001. You have a decent PR and you have about 120 pages in Google's index. If you only clean up the code and tweak your pages a bit....