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First I want to say could not have done this without you Alejandro. I really appreciate it. I tried my best to display the site in a unique way. I don't even know PHP but I do know how to program in other languages like c++, so when I had to go into the code I kinda of figured it out (with Alejandro''s help of course).

The Site is at www.xtralargedriver.com
The site is still a work in progress but I believe most of you will enjoy it especially if you are Big & Tall.

Thanks again, LuckyO

Well done on the site.

Its simple and a great idea, i must say i am very impressed and hope it takes off for you, now you have all the fun with Search Engine Visibility, getting visitors and having them contribute to your site.

I like your use of template, the site is simple and easy to navigate, and well presented.

Well done!

I really appreciate it. Driving traffic will be a big challenge. I'm reading up on strategies right now, so if anyone has ideas or suggestions has how to get traffic to the site search engines or not, I would really love to here them.

So there are a few suggestions that will make your life easier in terms of driving traffic to your site, they vary and it is really a case of doing whatever is easiest for you, it also depends on your site as to if there is much point in following some of the suggestions.

1. Invest or use a SEF component (Which you already have done, which SEF component?)
2. Sign up for an account with Google Analytics & Embed the code into your index.php file, this provides very useful information on referers to your site etc.
3. Create a XML for your website, some SEF components do this for you, or you may find some components on Extensions.joomla.org (http://Extensions.joomla.org) which do this. The aim is to look at finding something that does XML sitemaps, and if you signup for Google Webmaster Tools there is a bit that lets you submit your XML sitemap URL to google, this gives google the links to all your pages and makes the crawling process quicker / easier, especially if you have alot of content.

Google works out relevance based on a thing called PageRank, which is a complex formula, but basically says that if website A has 10,000 other sites linking to it, and website B has 5 sites linking to it, website A would be more relevant given the same search terms, it also works this out based on the popularity of the sites linking, so having 5 unknown sites might not be as good as one well known (high pagerank site). But the point is you can also improve your ranking by posting in popular forums with your website link in your signature, by submitting news articles to Joomla news and other forums, and just spread the work about your site.

Good luck with the site :) and the interesting process of SEO.

travisdh, you don't know how helpful this information is I really appreciate it. Are there any components that may be good for XML sitemaps.

I get a ton of traffic just filling out the keyword box using phrases that aren't popular but have been huge to traffic. Think of the generic phrases, too.

I like xmap (http://extensions.joomla.org/component/option,com_mtree/task,viewlink/link_id,3066/Itemid,35/). Some search engines only like sitemaps that end with .xml so you might have to set a redirect, unless the newest version of xmap allows for a .xml. You also want to add your sitemap to your robots.txt Example SITEMAP: http://tool-rank.com/sitemap.xml

Thank you so much! I am now using xmap and have submitted it to google and yahoo. I really don't understand the robots.txt part of the equation but I will do the research.