• Trying your hardest?
• Failing to rise above the masses?
• Visitor numbers static?
• Google's spider not interested?

Does your site have Sick Site Syndrome?

According to "It's A Wonderful Life", a bell rings every time an Angel Gets Its Wings. Similarly, a cheer goes up every time a spammer gets dinged.

But there is no cause for celebration when an honest webmaster building a clean and honest site, cannot get listed in the search results - or rather, can get listed - but too far down to be useful.

In some cases, of course, it's fair competition. If there are 50,000 Dog Lovers' sites, not all can appear in the top ten. But every site should appear where it deserves to appear; and if your site is regularly beaten by sites you know to be inferior, it may be a matter of Sick Site Syndrome.

The point about Sick Site Syndrome, is that it really is treatable, and much of that treatment involves simple common sense; following Search Engine Guidelines, checking for broken links and so on.

But some problems do require a little bit of judgement to get right - especially when you've previously acted on a fair bit of bad advice, and the site needs a thorough Spring Clean!

We cannot promise your site eternal life - but most sites can benefit - and sick sites can go a long way!

So What is Sick Site Syndrome?

"A combination of benign signs and symptoms that - taken together - damages a site's relationship with the search engines"

SSS is a combination of issues that can hog-tie your site. No site is perfect, and minor errors will not make a lot of difference. But taken together, these little things can add up to serious optimization damage.

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As and when the interest warrants it, the forums will expand to meet demand. And while there are plenty of roums out there - and plenty of experts - few are straight-talking, and too many allow spammers and other trouble-makers to sow bad seeds. We don't do that!

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