SEO Advice

[philiporchard]

OK, now my domains are back from the dead with Google, I need to consider SEO.

For example, on the new sites, there will be key primary pages, such as Hartlepool Hotels, Hartlepool plumbers, etc.

I know the keywords such as 'Hartlepool Hotels' should appear in the title, description, keywords, body etc, but is there an optimum number of words for each?

I used to use an online checker, where you entered the keywords, and then the URL, and it gave you feedback, and warnings etc.

I know the best solution is to build succesful link partnerships with extremely credible sites. I did this with the domain bamboo-flooring.com, which got it to the top of the Google results for Bamboo flooring, where it continues to remain! But this takes time, so I'm really looking for easily implemented SEO.

Thanks.
Phil

 

[retired_member34]

Take a look at seobook.com for training, even spend the money on membership. For tools, try seomoz.org.

 

[philiporchard]

Thanks Rob

 

[stevebrowne]

there's also a new thing that I haven't looked at in detail yet called DIYSEO.com

 

[accelerator]

I would also use the keyphrase in the page name, i.e.

hartlepool-hotels.php

There is no substitute for well written informative content on your site pages, and then writing well written articles / press releases and distributing to them to sites that count ... now I just need to take my own advice.

Rgds

 

[retired_member13]

having an SEO makes much of time because you are going to rank the website and aside from that there is a tool for knowing its rank. btw if you want to learn about SEO try google there is a pdf there for training SEO
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Nice fake signature, worthy of a ban methinks?

 

[vizzo]

Nice fake signature, worthy of a ban methinks?

Thanks for that post - it spurred me to search out the rules page to find out the rules myself.

Shame he made the line the wrong length!

 

[julian]

Phil,

seo is just bullshit - although I offer 'it', do 'it' and talk about 'it' to clients its basically just a load of marketing tosh and money for old rope

- done properly it's pretty much hard grubby work with some common sense - but having a market advantage dthough does help some.

i'm sceptical of anyone selling dir submissions or mentions ethical whitehat jargon etc.

Also looking at what you want to with your geos I think you killed then long ago and it will be a very hard task to make anything of them soon. Even when you do get them to page 1 to monetize them I fear ,will be difficult - not impossible, but it does not come easy just because site somewhere in g.

I think your right to contiue to find succesful link partnerships with extremely credible sites, although people with these rare sites are now less keen to give you what amounts to backlink fodder to juice your site.

OK, now my domains are back from the dead with Google, I need to consider SEO.

For example, on the new sites, there will be key primary pages, such as Hartlepool Hotels, Hartlepool plumbers, etc.

I know the keywords such as 'Hartlepool Hotels' should appear in the title, description, keywords, body etc, but is there an optimum number of words for each?

I used to use an online checker, where you entered the keywords, and then the URL, and it gave you feedback, and warnings etc.

I know the best solution is to build succesful link partnerships with extremely credible sites. I did this with the domain bamboo-flooring.com, which got it to the top of the Google results for Bamboo flooring, where it continues to remain! But this takes time, so I'm really looking for easily implemented SEO.

Thanks.
Phil

 

[Americar]

Google is changing the rules .. and the fat lady hasn't finished singing ..

**The era of depending on Google Search for website traffic is fading. If you have been focused ONLY on Google, it's definitely time to diversify. There are many other ways to generate traffic. ** tedster#:4128407

**They're going to keep fixing things until they're really broken... **
TheMadScientist #:4129194

http://www.webmasterworld.com/google/4127298.htm

 

[whiterabbit]

I'd 2nd the recommendation for the SeoMoz tools. They're excellent and their blog has first rate SEO advice...

http://www.seomoz.org/blog



WR

 

[vizzo]

Hi,

Link building is the most important thing you can do in SEO. Without links, your website will never gain authority and thus never move up in the search rankings. When people go out and get links, they just go get links. They think the more the better. But that is not really true. Yes, you want a lot of links to your site but you also want quality links to your site. For example,

If Site A links to Site B, Site B will out rank Site C. (Site B has 1 link while Site C has 0)

If Site A links to both sites, then a number of other factors like pagerank, domain age, content, and relevancy determine who ranks higher.

If Site A links to Site B and Site D links to Site C, who ranks higher when all links are equal? Whichever linking site has more links to it. If Site A has 2 links to it and Site D has 10, D is a stronger site so passes more authority to Site C which will rank higher.

Additionally, (stick with me here!) if Site B and Site C both have one link, the quality of that link then determines who ranks higher. Site B is linked to by the NYTs and Site C by me. Obviously the NYT is a higher quality site so its link “counts” more.

So not only does quantity matter but so does quality. So what makes a quality link? Here are important factors to consider when getting links.

Regards,

Hmm
Not sure if this is a genuine reply or spam.. that last line doesn't make sense.

As for what the post says - I would say that there is some truth in that but it is somewhat simplistic. It seems that Google is not putting as much weight on links, and more weight on other factors.

 

[whiterabbit]

Spam? Could be - it seems to be lifted verbatim from here:
http://host-ed.net/blog/tag/link-building EDIT - And a lot of other places now I google it...

But as you say advice is simplistic, not wrong.

WR

 

[rob]

I reported 'her' other post - http://www.acorndomains.co.uk/domain-name-wanted/67936-3d-domains-3.html#post252968

Acorn needs more mods or to move to total nofollow

 

[bensd]

I reported 'her' other post - http://www.acorndomains.co.uk/domain-name-wanted/67936-3d-domains-3.html#post252968

Acorn needs more mods or to move to total nofollow

I reported both posts as well. I think Alan needs to consider 1-2 more mods. Lee stepped down ages ago and no one has replaced him.

 

[rob]

I reported both posts as well. I think Alan needs to consider 1-2 more mods. Lee stepped down ages ago and no one has replaced him.

Its mad - How on earth is that Diana Chris user still here?

 

[illtemper]

These are the basic SEO 'Rules' I follow:

H1 - 1 H1 tag per page.
Title - present once with a max of 11 keywords to optimize for.
Alt Tag - All images should have an alt tag description
Meta Description - Is what search engines display in the results. Under 70 words or 360 letters.
SEO Friendly URLS - put the keywords in the url
Page Rank Flow - Is the relation of links on the page to your site vs outgoing. Maintain a pagerank flow above 50%
Load time - You want your site to load as fast as possible, optimize images, reduce white space in css, move javascript to bottom, merge css files together etc etc.

 

[whiterabbit]

Knew I had a link somewhere... Here's a decent article on basic SEO by the guys at SeoMoz. I've put it on a basic intro page, but its worth reading the whole article.

http://www.seomoz.org/article/bg2

I'll stop now at the risk of sounding like I have shares in them or something.

WR