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I'm with James on this one - but having an HTML backup for your main page is also a good recommendation.
Your page rank (3) and your initial comments indicate getting listed in the search results are not your primary concern. You would like to see some higher traffic to your site - right?
Some of the basic things for building site traffic come over time - Rome wasn't built in a day, as they say. But, there are some things I have found that helped my sites see some additional traffic
1. Stay in contact with your registered users. Don't abuse their confidence in you, but send them reminder messages every 90 - 120 days. Not just a 'Hi, how 'r you doin'? message, but spotlight a feature of your site or a newsworthy article. Use some of the features of the site yourself (Recommend Us, Email articles, etc)
2. Along those lines, also consider providing a site newsletter. Allow people to opt in to get updates on recent topics and changes at the site
3. Show people how to subscribe to the RSS feeds at your site. Tell them what it is, what is available, and how to use it.
4. Show registered users how to set notifications for the modules on your site.
5. Add the web site to your signature - in emails and in forums. Post or reply to forums, but only if you have something to add to the discussion. Anything else is trolling
6. Use results from search engines to fine tune your content. Know what terms people included in their search to find your site and what terms they included on your internal search. You can use Google's webmaster tools, your web host's analysis tools, or a XOOPS statistics module (I use all 3!) to get information about what people are looking for.
7. Make the most of your HTML markup. There are some great threads in this forum for modifying your theme to get better results. Make sure you use the image alt and title tags, add title tags to your links, use good page titles and valid css.
8. Make sure the search bots can follow all the visible links on a page. Hard-coded links to restricted pages/modules will end a crawling session very quickly, especially if those links are near the top of the page.
9. Don't expect your results to spike immediately. Gradual growth is expected by Google and the other big engines. A sudden increase in traffic is viewed suspiciously.
10. Put the url for the site on every printed publication you have - business cards, letterhead, newsletters, bulletins, brochures, phone listings, print ads, your business signs and bulletin boards
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