Site SEO - What would it cost?

Hi Lucinda,

Thank you for the suggestion. The thing is, my sites are years old and have content already. I just need the sites themselves fixed somehow. The problem isn't so much in the content as it is in the SEO elements (HTML code, hidden and obvious elements, etc.) and whatever else it takes to get a better ranking than PR1. I mean, cripes. One? It was 3 at one point until something went topsy-turvy about a year or so ago.

Today, I can't make a sale for H*ll or High Water! And I don't know what's wrong or how to fix it. It would seem that I've "lost it" - or maybe never really had it because over the past 5+ years, my sales have been meager, at best.

So that's what I'm looking for. Some desperate help to get my sites working right, for Google to give them a higher PR and recognize them as relevant to what I'm offering, and of course, to start selling again.

The problem is that the persistent non-existent sales means I cannot afford such a service, but I am willing and quite able to provide equivalent services to whomever can do this.

Sylvia

Istvan,

Thank you so much for your response.

There's no reason to switch to WP, other than to make it easier to work with the site and make sure it's SE friendly. Which means, repairing the problems that Site Advisor discovered,which looked like a massive task, especially since I don't understand most of what it's telling me about charset and things.

And also the fact that my FrontPage is proving more problematic that necessary. You are right about copying from Word, which I've probably done in some cases. But I figured, it's two programs created by the same company. Why wouldn't they readily integrate? Since then, I've learned otherwise.

But I must say, "ouch" - you don't like my design? I thought it was simple, uncluttered, straightforward and easy to navigate and scan for my visitors. Don't get me wrong, I'm definitely open to suggestion and am willing to consider alternatives. Clearly, if I'm not making sales, this alone could be the reason. People see it and think, "Yuck!" and leave without venturing any further. Maybe it confuses them or they don't see what they want fast enough. I don't know, but the main page (of my static sites) do have a bounce rate of 85% or something ridiculous.

One problem I've faced with this site (originally on Tips & Strategies for Anxiety Relief before I changed that to an anxiety site) - was how to market a site that consists of so many different topics - namely, a variety of book topics. I ended up creating pages to promote each product and marketing those individually, rather than marketing the entire site as a whole. So it kind of got built from the inside out. As I added books, I created / modified the main page. And then, I just transferred it to ebook-haven.com a few years back.

book-titles.ca was started in 1998, so you can see how discouraged I'd be after spending so much time with nothing to show for it.

You are right about the URLs and wanting to keep the formats. While I don't have a ton of backlinks, the ones I do have are worth keeping - mostly being promoted on articles in circulation and some blog posts.

It's crucial at this point that I figure this out. I can't continue unless I start making money again.

That's pretty much where I'm at, so I would definitely appreciate any help/guidance you can provide to turn this in the right direction.

Regards,
Sylvia

Sorry, Brad. You lost me.

What do you mean, these are just 2 landing pages? My site contains many "landing pages" where I target specific promotions. For instance, one page might be to promote an anxiety book. I'll promote that and send people to that "landing page".

My site contains much more than a landing page, if by landing page you mean home page. In fact, I don't really know how many pages this one site has, but there is at least one for every product I promote - probably about 20 pages minimum.

Sylvia