Hi, I am seeking advice on SEO because I am fairly new to it. I am trying to SEO Artistic-Angel.com, it's my wifes Hand Painted Glassware site. I am trying to evntually get it in the top on google under keyword Hand Painted glassware. Please provide any suggestons you can and how long do you think it will take for me to acheive such a goal? Thanks Nick
first off you might want to remove that keyword from this thread, last thing you want is this thread actually competing with you in the search engine results and it can happen!
I doubt this thread will actually compete with his site, yogesh. Hang on Nick, I'll see what I can do to help you out. All I ask is that you please refrain from cracking any "Wayne's World" jokes (I'm in Aurora). Well, that and you join me in hoping the Bears beat the Eagles tomorrow.
First do keyword research to get the most traffic keywords.Then do off page optimization.At last start creating backlinks with anchor text.
Ok, a quick look revealed the following problems. You have no real content on your pages. You have a lot of code that the search engines have to wade through before they even get to that content, and even then what little content is there is being obstructed by code that shouldn't even be there in the first place. You have inlined JavaScript that will just create more impediments to the search engine spiders trying to crawl your pages (moving them to external files can also increase page loading times for your regualr visitors as well). Your headings (while increasing the weight of the keywords by themselves) are not associated with any relevant content around them, which kinda defeats the purpose since HTML is a structural markup language (tags have meaning, and the search engines assign weight to those HTML elements based on their meanings and the relationships they share with the surrounding content). Like I said, these were just "quick things" I noticed - there are other problems, but a rebuild of the Web site (with content that describes what you're selling and creates a relationship between the keywords you're targeting, the items you're trying to sell - which are very very nice by the way, and tugs on your visitors' emotional impuse to BUY THIS NOW) will definately help improve things a lot. As for the content itself, I'd write a bit about what each item is to describe it - afterall, they're great places to put your keywords, and if you write the content well, it'll reinforce the "tugging of strings" that the pictures are already doing to make people want to buy those glasses even more, thereby improving your sales of these exquisite and lovingly painted items (also, you may want to consider charging more for them - those glasses look great, let people pay what they're worth for crying out loud). By the way, just out of curiosity, what did you use to make this Web site anyway? Like I said, just out of curiosity.
Yep, Dan Schulz is right, and you need more content (text) in the home page and product description pages. however the most important factor in SEO is links, so you need links with your targeted keyword "Hand Painted glassware" as anchor text. A good start will be to get links from web directories, submit some related articles to article directories and use social bookmarking websites to get free backlinks and some traffic too, do some link exchanges with related websites(this will be a little bit hard with your pr0.. so depanding on your budget you will probably need to buy some one way links from relevant websites too, you can use our B/S/T Link sales section to request links. P.S: this keyword "Hand Painted glassware" i searched less than 20 times per day (thats mean that even if you are in the top 10, the traffic will be very minimal (probably 3 or 4 hits per day), when you start building backlinks try to variate the anchor text, use "Painted glassware" too, this keyword receive more traffic than "Hand Painted glassware". Also the keyword "Hand Painted glassware" is easy, with a good and balanced link building strategy you should be able to get in the top5 in 2 to 3 months at most.. Good Luck.
Ah, but you can't get those links without that content though (well, at least the links that are worth anything more than a hill of beans anyway).
come on his website is not that bad, its an e-commerce website, its not supposed to have a lot of text, since his content = his products, its a shopping website. however, he could have at least bought a nice template .
I didn't say it was bad. I'm just saying that the products could use some descriptions to back them up (as in reinforce them). That's the content I'm referring to, not a five paragraph essay on each page. Not only that, but it'll also help better describe the products for those who can't see them but may still like to buy them for someone who can.
Yep. I hope the bears do win today. Ok thank you. I have started building backlinks recently. First off, I would like to say that the site is hosted free through Microsoft Office Live which is limiting our flexibility to do many things, so I am thinking of transfering it to godady.com. As for the template, when I transfer it should I have a professional hired to create a uniqe and custom template for the site? I don't understand why the website is ran by javascript either when transfering, will I have the ability to change it to HTML? I understand the I am probably being penalised by google for this javascript. Second are the current item descriptions not great enough and detailed in content? For example http://artistic-angel.com/straw06.aspx the lot of Strawberry Margartia Glasses, I know first off the picture needs to be improved, however how would I optimize the content? My wife wrote all the descriptions. For the home page how should I optimize it, what content should be placed on it? Thank you for your advice, I thought hand painted glassware was a more frequently searched keyword. I know the template has to go. lol. Thanks, See above reply.
And they did, 19-16. I'd recommend www.awardspace.com for free hosting (which will let you keep your domain name) but your site is using ASP.NET and not PHP. Bummer, really. I wouldn't use GoDaddy (or trust them with a dead man's life if that means anything to you) - I'd look for a hosting provider that actually cares about its customers instead. With PHP the options (for me anyway) are pretty clear, for ASP.NET though I'm not sure since I don't have any experience with it. With regard to the template, I would have it re-designed, but I'd personally go to www.sitepoint.com/marketplace/ and hold a Design Contest there instead of hiring one person. This way you have access to a highly talented pool of Web graphic designers as well as up-and-coming designers who can produce quality work as well. Just make sure you ask for the source files as part of a condition of payment (feel free to look around the Contests area to see how they do it). But the template won't have any real impact on SEO since search engines read text - they could care less if your site looks like the Mona Lisa or the bottom of a barf bag (and for the record, your wife's site does not look like the bottom of a barf bag - it's actually off to a promising start as far as the design goes). The JavaScript (from what I've seen) is mainly used for the search form, so sticking that inside an external file and then linking to it should be sufficient. Also, the presence of the JavaScript will not penalize you in any way shape or form - as I said earlier, it'll just mean that the search engine spider will have to crawl through the code to get to your content. If you can put it in an external file, the spider will go "hey, that's an external file, I can skip that" and jump right to the next part of your HTML file. As for the writing (please bear in mind I'm not a copywriter and whenever I do write, I tend to put the people who will read what I write first -- oh, and it's 2am so my brain isn't working properly ), I'd go with something like this for the product pages: <h1>Hand Painted Strawberry Margarita Glassware Set<h1> <em><strong>Quantity:</strong> Four Painted Margarita Glasses<br /> <strong>Price:</strong> $37.50</em> {Add to Cart Button} <p> Each six inch tall margarita glass is lovingly hand painted with beautiful red strawberries, green leaves, and tiny white and blue flowers using only the most durable enamel paints and heat cured to permanently bond the paint to the glass. While hand washing the strawberry margarita glasses is recommended, our hand painted margarita glasses are dishwasher safe. </p> <p> Every order includes four hand painted strawberry margarita glasses along with washing instructions to ensure that your margarita glass set lasts for years to come. This hand painted margarita glassware set is only one piece of my <a href="/strawberry.aspx">"strawberryware ensemble"</a>. Please check my other items for matching accessories. </p> {Add to Cart Button} Code (markup): I'd probably use a definition list for the quantity (of glasses in the lot) and the price, but I don't want to get into (X)HTML semantics so late at night, especially since I'm about to go to bed. The text is a good place to start, but since I don't know what keywords you're aiming for, or what combinations of "hand painted strawberry margarita glass" (or glasses, or glassware) you're willing to target (or what's being searched for), the example I provided (which is just an example) should be considered nothing more than a baseline - oh and remember, I'm primarily a front-end developer, not a Web copywriter. When you rebuild the site (and from what I've read, it appears you might), what point of view will you and your wife be taking with regard to the content? Is this going to be her site (as in just her), or will you both be selling these products on the site together (I'm asking because the point of view - I and my versus we and our - could make a difference in how willing potential customers are willing to trust you, which will determine which context the content on the site is written)? I do suggest regardless of whatever you do to make sure that you include the keywords you're targeting (do so appropriately) in your URLs. For example, with your strawberry margarita glasses, I'd probably go with strawberry-margarita-glasses.aspx for the file name instead of straw06.aspx (but that's just me, of course). Done properly though, a lot of what you'll be doing for "SEO" will really be areas like information architecture, usability/accessibility, content writing and proper Web development (note I said development, not design). The rest, like getting back-links for instance, will just be marketing as far as I'm concerned.