Hi again, questions galore! Here goes I bought this domain (and about 6 others) about 3 months ago. really at the beginning of all this. Only recently found out i was hiding my wordpress sites from the engines (something in the settings, doh!). This site http://www.babyshowerfun.co.uk has been changed and played with so many times over the past few months, and is now in the form of a wordpress blog. Please don't critique my site at present as I am fully aware it is poor, but using it as a learning curve, basically still learning about hosting, uploading files and stuff, learning how to get codes for adverts etc although think i need to get rid of the adverts until i get a decent visit count. I digress................ My question is, i've owned this domain for a few months, put a few links on some forums, wrote and submitted articles to squidoo, ezine articles, and a couple of other ones I think. All getting a bit more fun now i'm finding my feet a bit. When i type the address into the address bar - all well and good. BUT, when i type in "baby shower fun uk" into google - well i'd assume it would rank pretty high (especially since i've put uk in there too! Not there. About on the second page there is mentions of my site, found on forums, but nothing actually to my site. Even in "these quotes" it doesnt come up?? Any ideas? or am i doing something massively wrong and hopefully easy to correct? Just take the time to say also, i've been hammering the questions here, but just to let people know I really appreciate their help and try my best to implement them. Thanks again, and hope to get some help here! Alan.
Hi Alan, my first thought... do you have your RSS feed enabled? But I checked and it's there. There are a few settings you need to change to help with SEO. Mostly, you need a lot more content. And try to optimize a few blog posts for that keyword, and then use that keyword (or other similar keywords) as an anchor link when you link back to your site from article resource boxes and from Squidoo lenses etc. That should help. Good luck! Elisabeth
A few links isn't enough - look at what the competition is doing - the site that comes at the top of serps is a .co.uk - so it's got the uk relevance, it's also got 450 backlinks, a large proportion of which have a version of the "baby showers" keyword as anchor text - that being said, none of the pages they have links from seem to have pagerank The same tool (backlinkwatch.com) shows that you've got 6. And 5 of them from the same forum - and forum links are low quality because each page has a lot of outbound links. You need more backlinks, and you need to ensure that the pages your backlinks are on, are indexed themselves. The question you have to ask yourself is "why should the google algorithm believe that your site is more relevant to that search then all the other trillion sites on the internet?"
When I first started, I was given a headsup by a very wise seo guy and he told me, even before I had much content on my blog, was to get yourself verified with google webmaster tools, yahoo site explorer, and bing webmasters. When the bots search your site to verify that the code they give you is there they automatically index it. Follow the advice you've been given so far, add more content, build more backlinks on blogs and forums, and write more articles and you'll get there! Best of luck to ya!