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Does anyone know how we can improve our PHPFusion website on the Google search bot so when a user goes to Google and does a search "Jesus Save Me", we will be in the top 10. We are having great success with Yahoo but not with Google. Thanks for any suggestions!
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Google does not use keywords as much but more of LINK relativity and the amount of links to your website.

The more links to your website the higher you will be listed on google.
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Sheldon,
Thanks for the input!
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Well.....google's not just google.
There's a whole book written about how to build your site google-friendly.

Unfortunately i've only seen the book in danish, but should be possible to google up something worth reading.

A few hints.
Use <h1></h1> headlines for proper headlining. In links section in navigation site, leave top "link" clean to make the googlebot go to the center panel to search through what's there....if it follows link in top let side, it will skip text in center and you're settled with less "search" throughout the text on your site...

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Google doesn't like table-based layouts... :|
You should optimalise your meta tags (Google doesn't care much about them, but it'd be better to do that ;) ), divide headers into two or three groups - the most important of them place in <h1> tags, less important in <h2>, you can also use <h3>. Then care about links from the other websites - they should have phrase you're positioning your site on in title tag or as a name (I mean text, which will be displayed to visitors). Somethink like this:
<a href="http:/www.jesussaveme.org" title="Jesus Save Me">Jesus Save Me</a>

Place those links at as popular sites as you're able to, they may say about things similar to your website, they should also have a little number of outbound links (less than 20 would be best, but <30 is also good). Be aware of links farms, the websites which have lots of outgong links (for example 80 at the front page) - they don't help your site get positioned, they make more bad than good things...

//edit: You can also use bold text to show googlebot the most important keywords on your webpage ;). Use <strong></strong> tags. So, you can place such text at the top of the page, in welcome message:

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Welcome to <strong>Jesus Save Me</strong> website! (blahblahblah) We hope that Your survey thought the webpage will be satisfying. Your <strong>Jesus Save Me</strong> Team.

Don't use it too often, because Google doesn't like crap-text and it sometimes bans sites using a lot of it, but placing positioning phrases sometimes on the site may be helpful.
Replace some of the images in welcome message (for example suggested prayers) with text - placing images there is nearly poinless.

You have a lot of outbound links - wouldn't it be better to replace them with weblinks? I mean add http://www.oddcast.com/sitepal/whatis to your weblinks, then place the link you get in place of the direct links. You get two advantages: first, that you know, how many visitors was this link already clicked by, second, that Googlebot follows link, but it doesn't make him lost interest of your site ;).

The last thing - reorganise your site. Visitor (bot too), who enters JesusSaveMe.org, is redirected to http://www.jesussaveme.org/php-files/viewpage.php?page_id=4 - that's not good... Place all the files you've got in php-files directory in main directory, then delete redirect from main adress and add redirect 303 to php-files directory. That'd be much better :-)
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Same story with a website promoting images a lot...using those as a main thing on the site.
There's SO much difference in naming a picture eg. 1012_Chrysler.jpg vs Chrysler_1012.jpg
Name pics, if fundamental to your site, with the "key" (Chrysler) first, then a notation or whatever AFTER the "key-word".
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I think I must be a bit lucky, because if you do a Google search on "Tyros2" my Tyros2.Net site is TOP-listed :). It is even placed before the official Yammy site :p

I have not done any changes in my files to get the site toplisted at Google.
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That's because websearches look for the keyword as a .com and .net before anything else.
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