Hi DP users, Thanks for taking the time to check out this thread. I am struggling to understand the PR system. I have worked hard at the things I've read on DP but it hasn't taken effect the way I had planned. I have a lot more things than a lot of sites ranking higher than me and I need to know where the leak is at in my site. Website URL http://tinyurl.com/bbwrnq Code (markup): What I would like is for some members on the site (that know what they are talking about ) to look over my site and give me an SEO review. If you take the time to do so + Rep will be given. Just please explain to me where my issue or problem is as far as the SEO. Than show me the example of my problem and offer some ideas on fixing them. A basic review will really help, i'll use the reviews and do some research and hopefully really improve. Basic SEO Overview of my site: Google BackLinks: 35 Google Indexed Pages: 2,390 Yahoo Back Links: 1,430 Yahoo Index Pages: 256 MSN Back links: 1,142 MSN Index Pages: 152 Alexa: 1896267 AlltheWeb Backlinks: 1,450 All The Web indexed pages: 739 AltaVista Indexed pages: 744 AltaVista Backlinks: 1,470 Number of backlinks with Page rank Pr 1 - 3 Pr 2 - 6 Pr 3 - 1 Pr 4 - 0 Pr 5 - 2 That I know of, (Is there a tool on the net to check these and get all the baclinks with PR?)
To be honest there is probably a lot of work that needs to be done. Here are some issues that I noticed: -poor keyword choice. Your homepage title is just Xtreme Car Forum. It would be much better if you targeted more than one good phrase with your homepage. 'car forum' is a fairly competitive phrase. You might be better to target less competitive phrases. Try the Google keyword tool to find other keywords. -lack of meta tags. You should have a unique meta description for each page on your site -poor internal page title structure. The actual title of each page is preceded by too much text. The specific keywords that a page is targeting should be close to the beginning of the title. -poor url structure. I know this is setup that way because of your blogging format. It would be much better if the urls had your keywords in them. -instead of having a 'home' link on every page, you would be much better off to have a keyword rich link to your homepage on each page. You could leave the home link as is but make it nofollow and then put a keyword rich homepage link in the footer or somewhere else. It may also be worth adding the rel="nofollow" attribute to any other unimportant pages. Those are the main onpage issues I noticed. To get better search engine rankings it will mostly come down to quality of backlinks. So you need to work at regularly building backlinks. Try some strategies such as article submission, press releases, blog commenting, forum signatures, directory submission, social bookmarking, etc. Make a point of trying to get very relevant links and/or links from quality, trusted websites. You will want to use your specific target keywords as link anchor text. Don't just get all your links with 'Xtreme Car Forum' as the anchor text. Pick 4 - 8 target keyword phrases and keep rotating between all of those phrases as anchor text. Make sure those target keywords are also in prime page locations too....title, meta description, headers, alt text, regular text, etc.
Just to add to the key points from vansterdam, I didn't see any use of the H1 tag on your home page either. Check out the Link Voodoo Backlink Tool for PR on backlinks
As far as the title went, I add'd some to it I read on an SEO site the max you should use is 7 words so I did so. As for being in something too competitive the site is on the second page of google for Car forum. It gets a lot of hits of that keyword. I saw this and was like wow, thought I had that set up awhile ago. I just a plugin set up so now I have a meta keywords and description on the site. The plugin package I think has an option to have a differnt meta description for each page so that should help. The way my wordpress theme, set-up is I can't rewrite the urls or it causes a lot of issues. The theme moves around, and the links that were to p=108 or whatever they were don't work right. Do you mean change the home link to something like "Car Blog homepage" so it works in keywords? I don't really get this part of your review please reword it some thanks! As for the rel="nofollow" I recently added that to a few links to other sites, but do I need the nofollow attribute on links that go to pages on my own site? ---------------- Thanks for that review I have already began working on a few things.
As far as using H1 tags, I've recently started using them in my blog posts. I did just assume that whatever you made your blog post title was considerd a heading. I am trying that linkvoodoo, It has to install to your computer to crawl your site? Kinda weird. Is it 100% safe?
Are you sure you wanted only PR? Before you began this work it would have been useful to find out what Google wants from websites, not what you think they want. Briefly, they return best sites that are built solely with the user in mind, providing high quality unique content. They do not want sites that artificially boost their PR by exchanging links with other sites. Follow the Following: Once you've made your changes and are confident that your site no longer violates Google guidelines, you will definetly get those PR & SERP.
Majority of the content I take a lot of time to write. Some posts have 1,000+ words where I start typing about something and just don't stop than when I finish I shock myself at home long the article is. I don't need PR to have a better site, I think my SERP's are pretty good. I just wanted to increase me PR to help with the value of the site and links sales.
Unfortunately your 'car forum' ranking may only be for one data center. When I search from here in Vancouver, Canada I see you on page 8. If I use a proxy server I see you on page 6. You are basically competing with every other car forum for that phrase. So it would take a lot of good links to make the first page. For your title just try to keep it under 70 characters. Don't go by word count. If you make the title too long you do dillute the other keywords. It is still probably worth using some other keywords in your title. Yes I do mean change your homepage links to something like 'car blog homepage'. Better yet, it would be your exact target keyword 'car forums'. Linking to your homepage with the word 'home' is a bad idea. Make a point of using keywords in any of your internal links. Using nofollow on external links is a good idea, but many websites also choose to use this attribute in their unimportant internal links. For example, you shouldn't care if the search engines index your login/registration pages. You can send more PR to your other important pages by making unimportant links nofollow.
No http://site.com is not any better than http://www.site.com Just stick to whichever version you prefer. I do see that you have a redirect from the non-www version which is very good.
Should I go back through my posts and re-write the titles of the pages with the SEO plugin? It seems to me like if the stuff is already indexed I shouldn't mess with it and just start doing it from now on.
Yes, you will obviously All in one SEO plugin for WP. That would help you in better page optimization. To increase the PR as I mentioned, don't get link in intension of getting PR. Just gain more quality related backlinks. Submit some articles to high Pr aricle Directory. Those will give you enought PR juice. My great advice don't work for Green Idiotic Bars. Work as you go. Gain as much as.
It's up to you. If those posts target good keywords, it is in your best interests to ensure those pages are all completely optimized. It doesn't matter if you tweak your already indexed pages. Website pages naturally need the occasional update. So if you have the time, you should go ahead and rewrite those titles.
I downloaded platinum SEO pack i think was the name. The way it is set up is you set the title of the article than it adds | your blog title right after it. For example the title of the page would be this. "I love cars like big woman | Xtreme car & truck forum & blog"