30 Seconds for a Charity?
This afternoon, Aaron from the City of Angels Children’s Home in Tijuana, Mexico contacted me for some SEO advice. It seems that since yesterday, the homepage of the site (just the homepage, not the entire site! http://www.tjkids.org) has been dropped from the Google index.
I’ve taken a look at it, and identified a few possible factors:
- Very low link strength - The site has only 17 backlinks according to Yahoo, with only 14 distinct domains between them.
- No internal links to the root domain - The menu bar linked to http://www.tjkids.org/index.html rather than to the root page.
If you have a spare minute, here’s some things you can do to help Aaron and the orphanage.
- Are you an SEO? Do you see anything else on the page that could be causing Google issues? I’d appreciate it if you could post anything else in the comments, so I can relay it back to Aaron!
- Are you a blogger or webmaster? It would help a lot if you could write a post or story linking back to the City of Angels Children’s Home. This will help them to get indexed again.
Thank you for taking a second to read this, and please consider helping out!
Looks like their main page is indexed when i checked just now.
a 301 to the www version from the non or vice versa never hurts, and their enews archives could use unique title tags…
Caydel,
Thanks for all your help here. It looks like things are back to normal now.
I took your advice and changed all the internal links to the homepage to the root domain. I also did a 301 to the www version as you suggested earlier and Dan mentioned above.
Next steps will be building backlinks and ditching the javascript links in the menu for static ones. Hopefully, this will all help to build strength to the page so issues like this won’t come up again in the future.