This site had been originally set up with Tripod's Site Builder (a freebie host) and then later switched to their own domain with a 302 redirect from Tripod so all credit for the domain went to the free site on Tripod (and not their own domain) which destroyed any chance for this domain to grow in rank until the redesign.
The site was also captured in a frame with no title so not indexed in the search engines either (other than the Tripod site). The domain is almost two years old (as of the redesign 10-13-07) but having to start over like a brand new website with 0 PR (page rank); this being the case I also switched all file names (that were originally numbers) and 301 redirected them in htaccess to file names with keywords.
There were also duplicate home pages which were fixed with the redesign. The site also had very few quality links pointing to it. The original pin striped layout was retained (with new graphics) and code is original also.
It will probably take several months for the search engines to pick up all the changes but the site has a chance of gaining PR and keyword rank now.
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