Hello I'm in a predicament, in January i began my optimisation campaign through employing an independant home based SEO specialist to work on my website. I paid almost $800 to have the seven pages of the site loaded with keywords that had been selected, i was also offered promotional techniques thrown in and the installation of google analytics. I've read testimonials of his work and these stories were of hope and success, partially the reasons why i chose this person. Now four months on, i have spent many days making articles, creating backlinks and blogging to improve the websites status. After spending all this money, i remain on 1 visitor a day through google, i am yet to have anyone find the website using a keyword i had placed in the code. Whenever i send an e mail, asking for information, i get the reply suggesting that everything is a matter of time and that it can take a long time to begin reaping the benefits. I need to know is this correct, i dont even know what optimised pages look like and can't notice any real change to the code structure. I don't know what to do, please don't tell me i've been ripped off and there is nothing i can do. Can anyone help me with a way to go forward Thanks James Creation Thompson http://bingoboots.com/ (the optimised website)
Your site is great! now the thing is to drive traffic to it. I am sure you are tired of spending money so I am here to tell you that you have to invest some time Ezine articles will be the best way to go and you can actually get started writing keyword focus articles and begin to drive traffic to your page. The articles are a great way to drive traffic and believe me they will begin to rank up your site. The key is to come up with good keywords that will get you the targeted audience that you are looking for.
Hey bingoboots, I replied to one of your previous posts about this issue. It sounds like you only paid for onpage seo services, but that is only half the battle. $800 may be overpriced for that onpage optimization. It would cost much more to get offpage seo services. You won't get rankings for any competitive keywords based on onpage factors alone. You need a large amount of backlinks. It can take many months to build up enough links to rank well. Just keep consistently building a lot of backlinks every day. In time you should get rankings.
You need to continue working on off-page SEO. It's not like you can work on it for a month, get ranked and leave it at that
Your site "looks" phenomenal... You have a great presentation, good graphics, it's fun looking like a game site should be... Unfortunately, when a tree falls in the woods and no one is around to hear it, can you be sure it fell? I understand your pain. I totally agree w/ vansterdam in that on-page SEO alone is not going to make the site rank and that the site needs more targeted backlinks. He always gives rockin' input. However, I disagree with anyone here who says the site's on-page SEO is currently great. I would not even call it good... maybe some somewhere between noobish and noobish+. In fact, it "looks" like the person who did the site was a good graphics designer but knew nothing about SEO. I'll give you a few examples: 1) View the source of the home page and search for "Hello fun finders"... Find it? No! Why? The text on the home page is ALL embedded in an image which the search engines cannot see... Looks great. Sucks for SEO. 2) While you have the source open, search for "<h1"... do you see an <h1> element in the source? No! That's the 2nd most important on-page ranking factor and it's not being used. 3) Actually, while the source is open, look down through the body of the page and see if you can locate ANY content... You can't! Everything on the home page is an image. 4) So okay... everything's an image and the search engines can't read any of the text... Well SURELY they at LEAST remembered to set the alt attribute on the image links for the menu so that the pages linked to would get credit for some link text... NOT! The alt attribute is there on the <img> element inside the <a> element BUT it says <img alt="" ... />. Worthless. So I HOPE that you guys who are saying "Yeah! your on-page SEO is GREAT! Pay me to build you some links!" know more about building links than you do about SEO... because a blind man w/ a screen reader could see that the supposed SEO work this person got in return for their $800 was shody at best... Okay... It wasn't even shody... It was a rip off. I see probably 20 more very basic, fundamental SEO problems with the site and I've spent all of 2 min looking at it. IMO you have a "beautiful" site that needs a lot of on-page AND off-page SEO before it will start ranking... ESPECIALLY the home page which by the way is likely going to have the BEST chance of ranking for a Bingo related term of any page on your site. So of ALL the pages to build completely out of images, this is the worst one to have picked. This is how your page looks to visitors: http://74.125.47.132/search?hl=en&num=100&q=cache:bingoboots.com Great! This is how your page looks to Google: http://74.125.47.132/search?q=cache:bingoboots.com&hl=en&num=100&strip=1 Hmmm! That Blows! Convert all of the images on your home page to plain text. Even the buttons at the top and down the left should be blank buttons with the text CSS'd over top of them. NEVER embed text inside of an image... Always use blank images then CSS the text over top of it so the engines can see the text. Also your page's <title> elements are too broad... too long.. The <title> element is THE most important ranking factor on a page. Each page should be trying to rank for a specific keyword phrase (or 2 or 3 short phrases if they are VERY similar). The <title> should contain these phrases The <h1> header element is the 2nd most important on-page ranking factor. You have none. Create one for every page describing what the page is about. Your <h1> should contain 1 or more of the keyword phrases from the <title> (or slight variations). There is a LOT of simple stuff you could do to make this site rank. You have an awesome niche and a great looking site. It would be a real shame if no one could ever find it.
Thankyou so much canonical What a great post full of useful information, i'm hurt, but the truth hurts and sometimes that's what we need. I will begin trying to get this sorted out. Thank you very much, take care. Kind Regards James Creation Thompson