I've been trying to tweak my old site now for weeks www.home-inspectors.com and it's been a series of nightmares for me to the point of almost total frustration.
I've spent almost 3 weeks at this now and it's just been problem after problem. For years our site ranked #1 on the first page but all the new google rules and search criterion, it put our site right out of view. I can no longer afford google adwords either.
I'm trying to use the webmaster tools on Google. I submitted an .xml site map but it says that only 54 pages of 103 are indexed.
Is it normal for some pages to not get indexed? Can I do something to ensure they all ge indexed or does it only index to a certain level within a site?
I turned off frames but it says it cannot index 7 certain pages as it refers to the body for instance (www.home-inspectors.com/services.htm) shows as www.home-inspectors.com/body_services.htm
I thought I had the frames issue fixed but obviously I don't. Went to page hit f10 and frames are not on?
I also cannot get my homepage to rank at all. I have loads of content related keywords and many of my other pages do OK but not my home page. The most common searchs for our company are "Home inspectors Ottawa" yet my web page showing our company name - Home Inspectors - doesn't show at all other than under the google map (places)?
One site I visited said there were numerous html errors on the home page but I don't know of understand html. Is it possible to create a new home page and replace the old one. I know you can creat and delete pages but have not been able to find out how to do this for the homepage. Also, should it be named something other than index?