help needed with website SEO

[SoftDux]

Hi all,

I need some help with a website and search engine ranking, please. The website is http://www.3ll.co.za.The first page is basically a "fancy menu", with 6 images which all re-directs to their respective pages. In itself, the website content won't really change often, or much at all, which I know isn't good for search engine ranking.

Does anyone have any tips / suggestions for me, to drive more traffic to this website, other than google ads / paid-for directory listings / etc? It's a friend's website, and her cash-flow is a bit crippled with the recession, so we need to think of creative ideas on how to drive more traffic. The website is listed in a few free directories, but even then it doesn't help much.

[LordMerlin]

you need to add a text-only menu to the website and descriptions to all the images. add an XML-sitemap as well. and when you submit the website to google or other search engines use http://www.3ll.co.za/about-us.html as the URL

[cmggraphics]

I've sent you an email SoftDux which may help you.

If you want to use images in your menu, then make it all text and use CSS to replace the text with sprites.

http://css-tricks.com/css-sprites/

[SoftDux]

Thanx Carl, I'll check it out

[ashsmith]

To drive traffic you can share that website in social websites. Like twitter, digg, and stumbleupon.

If I were you, I would add even a little content below the images. Do some onpage changes. By time the site will rank well in search engines and get more natural traffic.

[turbovps]

Get site registered in major directories like dmoz etc, blogs, articles submission, twitter, facebook etc etc
There are so many ways to market your services.

[peterjames12]

There is no payment to the search engines for being indexed. This is important for high volume.Search engine optimization is a practical and effective solution for increasing traffic to your website and thereby making your business conspicuous online.Designing a website for search is an exercise in designing a best practice website.

[OmniPrint]

Originally Posted by peterjames12

There is no payment to the search engines for being indexed. This is important for high volume.Search engine optimization is a practical and effective solution for increasing traffic to your website and thereby making your business conspicuous online.Designing a website for search is an exercise in designing a best practice website.

how does this help the OP?