By Farouk111 on

hello everybody
i think drupal's reputation of being search engine friendly proved to be true,i manged to move from pr 0 to four in six monthes
www.2knowmyself.com

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ckeo commented

but so you know.... your page layout is not right in firefox.

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nisguy commented

I think it's the black title image. It doesn't allow the page to shrink and forces the right column off the layout when the window is narrowed.

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nancydru
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I did it in less than that, but it isn't going any higher.

Nancy W.
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Farouk111 commented

thanks for the notice about firefox., i noticed it displays correctly as long as the page is not resized, any idea how fix it?
www.2knowmyself.com

The Ultimate Source For Self Understanding and Personal Growth

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nisguy commented

You need to either remove that image from the title or make the wrapper table fixed-width.

Add this to the end of your theme's stylesheet to see what I mean.

#wrapper {
  width: 930px;
}
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themegarden.org commented

From PR0 to PR4 - did you do any aditional SEO?
Some promotion ?
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nancydru
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First, I use the nodewords (Meta tags) module to set a description and a few keywords (probably not needed) for each page. I also make sure the title is unique. I also use path/pathauto to create readable URLs.

Second, I did submit to a few search engines and managed to arrange a few back links in various places. And I think it may have helped a little to mention the sites here on DO a few times.

Nancy W.
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Farouk111 commented

heey,

thanks your post solved my problem about my site not displaying well in firefox
but there is another issue. the top of the page dont show too on firfox, any idea how to fix it?
thanks for your help

www.2knowmyself.com

The Ultimate Source For Self Understanding and Personal Growth

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nisguy commented

I'm not sure what you are asking. I did notice that you hard-coded a margin on each side of your #wrapper. This is not the proper way to center your design. Try adding this to the bottom of your CSS.

body {
  margin: 0;
}

#wrapper {
  text-align: center;
  margin: 0 auto;
  width: 1000px;
}

.page, .sidebar-right, .sidebar-left {
  text-align: left;
}

Also, it's not good to have a web page 1050px wide, because this will cause a horizontal scroll bar on the majority of your side visitors monitors.

If you want to learn the proper way to code CSS, go buy Bulletproof Web Design, CSS Mastery, and read the free w3schools tutorial on CSS. These are all great learning tools.

good luck.

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michelle
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commented

Not sure what you mean by "helped" but I just thought I'd clarify for anyone wondering that linking to your site here won't help you as far as having a link from a high PR site because all links here are nofollow'd. I know it makes sense because of the spammers but it's a pity that those of us with legitimate Drupal sites can't get some of that PR 9 loving ;)

Michelle

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My site: http://shellmultimedia.com

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nancydru
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According to Google, I have links from here...

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michelle
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I wonder if there's some part of the site that doesn't get the nofollow? I know all the forum posts do. I haven't checked in the handbook.

Michelle

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My site: http://shellmultimedia.com

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nancydru
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I may have put them out there before the nofollow was implemented. BTW, links from your profile are not nofollowed.

Nancy W.
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michelle
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You're right, no nofollow there. Unfortunately, also no good place to work the link in. I tried to put it in the interests section forgetting that's supposed to be keywords only. Oops. Had to undo that.

Michelle

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My site: http://shellmultimedia.com

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Farouk111 commented

the main idea, is to get backlinks without provding a reciprocal link(through article submission for examlpe) and providing good content
i think when google find's two way links they are not counted, but am not sure of this
i have made a big effort in getting backlinks and in optimizing the page content (title,meta tags, page name....etc)
by the way, it took me six monthes because google updates happen each 3 monthes, but i think i got the pr of four after the fourth month
www.2knowmyself.com

The Ultimate Source For Self Understanding and Personal Growth

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nancydru
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They just don't count as much as a quality back link. BTW, in both cases, the linking site must be relevant to yours. Link farms can actually hurt you.

Nancy W.
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clkeenan commented

I hate to break it to you, but PR 4 in 6 months is anything but an achievement. Try getting to PR6 or 7 in 6 months and then you'll have something to talk about :)

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gethighprlinks commented

Yeah, I have checked the pr of of your site and it is pr 4. But can you please explain how Drupal help you to gain such pr in this short time? As per as I know it can only be possible if you trade some good seo friendly, high pr links. But I don't think that go on that way, I am really eager to know it.