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[geti-titanium]

Would this text be just as google-friendly on an about me page?

Yes google treats each individual page of your site as an individual website and as such each page of information should be optimised for one search phrase or word.

If you are lucky enough to get somebody to link to you (which is equivalent to gold dust now!) you shouldn't necessarily just link to your homepage you should get them to link to pages within your site - which is called 'deep linking'. Crikey - all highly technical stuff

[geti-titanium]

rightly or wrongly, that too much text there would put visitors to the site off

You shouldn't worry about putting your visitors off with too much text because without the text you won't have many visitors anyway - you could always put it in the bottom half of your page - that way if they are really interested they can still read it. The top of the page is always the best position for text (search engine wise) but on the other hand don't necessarily design your site for search engines, design for people - nobody said this stuff was easy

[bustagasket]

omg i really dont want my website to go live now, i am in way over my head

[geti-titanium]

You'll be alright - we'll all guide you Just don't take any notice of me and you'll do fine - apart from changing the colour of that hidden text at the bottom about MrSite of course.

[mizgeorge]

Su' if you want to hide the Mr Site copyright line, it's really pretty simple.

When you've finished editing the page, switch to html mode (at the bottom of the editing screen) and add this line of text at the end of all the code (on a new line)

<style>body div#footer {visibility:hidden;}</style>

(you can just copy and paste it onto each page)

And that's it!

[geti-titanium]

<style>body div#footer {visibility:hidden;}</style>

(you can just copy and paste it onto each page)

On the other hand though this may affect your rankings as google will see this as hidden text and a possible attempt to fool her - she doesn't know what the text means or why you would want to hide it - deleting it altogether would be better if you can get away with it.

[Di Sandland]

What makes you think google is a woman, geti? I think its an arsy arrogant man!

[lesley]

I'm a bit scared now but would you have a peek at my site please, Geti.

It's a Mr Site and I tried following their instructions about keywords and stuff but it became really awkward trying to shoehorn them in. Plus, I always seemed to use other words and phrases more than the ones I wanted as keywords. I'm afraid I gave up trying when "chain" and "measuring" kept coming up top of the list.

[Emerald]

What makes you think google is a woman, geti? I think its an arsy arrogant man!

deffinatley with you on that one Di.

[geti-titanium]

I'm a bit scared now

No need, it looks fine - a good amount of text but I wouldn't try to cram too many keywords in all on one page. You need to optimise different pages for different key phrases.

Don't hide the MrSite reference and if they provide a sitemap facility it would be majorly beneficial.

You could perhaps also break up the text with some nice product images.

All in all though you can breathe a sigh of relief.

PS

All those links to other websites - if they aren't linking back to you I would get rid of them - the majority will be only benefitting themselves and not you.