Www.ukdesignermenswear.com

Hi everyone i'm new to the forums and would just like some advice on what i can do with the site i have up right now to get ranked. Any information would be greatly appreciated, James

Hi James,

Unfortunately your site isn't set up to rank well. Your best bet would be to get a website ranking audit off someone, but off the top of my head:

• The base software you're using, actinic, is very good but isn't being used to its full potential, you need to look at redoing all the metas to make them both individual and "serp friendly".
• You need to add more comtent to the pages
• You need to add alt tags and content to images
• Flash navigation is bad for search engines
• Your homepage doesn't have enough relevant text and expressions on it, nor do your subpages
• Get backlinks from external sites, 100s of them

While meta tags are important for MSN, Google and Yahoo ignore them, as a recent article here showed. So there are more important things to do than start with meta tags.

The alt tags tips is a good one, as is the backlink advice. To that end I would speak to suppliers, customers, employees, friends, menswear bloggers and so on about them giving you links or trading links with them. Personal emails/phone calls would work best for this; generic emails are spectacularly unsuccesful (trust me, I've tried). Mention some of their content that you liked so they know you've actually been to their site .

I would get rid of the images that replace text, and use actual text. The only possible reason not to would be that you have huge traffic from non SE sources.

Put the navigation on the left, and replace it with category browsing. For example, have links like

Designer Suits | Armani Jeans | Boss Polos | Other Designer Polos | etc.



If you have further questions, feel free to Private Message (PM) me.

Oh, I meant to say: the clothes hanger image is extraneous, as is the text telling you how many things are in the cart and the cost.

Also, the site doesn't look luxurious, in the way I would think it should given it's designer clothing...

Hi guys since the previous post i'v updated the site, every product now has its own seperate page. I'm just wondering what peoples honest opinions are on how the site can be improved, and how it stands currently with SEO. Thanks for your time, James

a hover for your menu would be nice ...

beautiful site

Congrats

Thankyou intiendes, i did try and create a javascript hover menu, however i couldn't find an easy way of implmenting one without paying for a program that generates pre made ones. If anyone could help out with this it'd be much appreciated

i dont know about java but a there are lots you could do with CSS .. and you could code freely with it ...

Much better, but one little snippet of advice. You're wasting valuable screen real estate on the homepage; that area where you have images below the top navigation bar (main page/new products/etc) and above the leftnav (product categories) is a very hot area in terms of UI. If you must have images there they should, at least, be clickable to somewhere. Even better would be your top 5 selling items.