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Old 09-07-2008, 03:12 PM
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Default lack of ranking on Google

It may just be the crap weather, but I'm beginning to get a bit depressed about my lack of page ranking on Google. My site on www.dublinbynumbers.com has been about for months now, but Google does not appear to want to rank it. I think my problems might stem from my lack of high pr links, but I also thought Google might think I am spamming becuse I have the word "Dublin" in too many times. My search box on the left uses options based on Dublin postcodes (Dublin 1, Dublin 2 etc) and I thought maybe this looks a bit spammy to a robot? (see a snippet of the offending code below)

Any ideas or tips would be appreciated (I know there are other problems should as the prominence of embedded javascript and a good few other things that I should try and fix too).

Cheers!

HTML Code:
<h2>in (postcode):</h2>
<select name="area"  class="searchselect" onchange="setOptions(document.myform.area.options[document.myform.area.selectedIndex].value, 'myform')">
<option value="1">Dublin 1</option>
<option value="2">Dublin 2</option>
<option value="3">Dublin 3</option>
<option value="4">Dublin 4</option>
<option value="5">Dublin 5</option>
<option value="6">Dublin 6</option>
<option value="7">Dublin 7</option>
<option value="8">Dublin 8</option>
<option value="9">Dublin 9</option>
<option value="10">Dublin 10</option>
<option value="11">Dublin 11</option>
<option value="12">Dublin 12</option>
<option value="13">Dublin 13</option>
<option value="14">Dublin 14</option>
<option value="15">Dublin 15</option>
<option value="16">Dublin 16</option>
<option value="17">Dublin 17</option>
<option value="18">Dublin 18</option>
<option value="19">Dublin 19</option>
<option value="20">Dublin 20</option>
<option value="21">Dublin 21</option>
<option value="22">Dublin 22</option>
<option value="23">Dublin 23</option>
<option value="24">Dublin 24</option> 

Last edited by andywozhere; 09-07-2008 at 03:17 PM.
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