I've been hired through a friend to help drive traffic and boost SERPS for johndalysdiscountgolf.com. Actions I've taken: Added the alt attribute to all relevant images. Working on a sitemap Using a link in all my signatures and making posts What I'm not sure of: The content of the site is in the shop directory so we have setup a 301 redirect to point all johndalysdiscountgolf.com traffic to johndalysdiscountgolf.com/shop. The site is partially owned by John Daly and we would like to have this on the first page of google when people search for John Daly. Thanks in advance. Any and all ideas welcome.
the 301 is fine S.No Keywords 1 Adams 2 Adidas 3 Callaway 4 Cleveland 5 Dunlop 6 Eyeline 7 Footjoy 8 John Daly put this one and the next first 9 John Daly discount golf clubs 10 SA 95 11 Maxfli 12 Nike 13 Pinnacle 14 Precept 15 Ram 16 Taylormade 17 Titleist 18 irons 19 hybrids 20 drivers 21 wedges 22 putters i would use a few keywords less Web Page Size : 24878 Bytes Code Size : 23903 Bytes Text Size : 975 Bytes Code to Text Ratio : 3.92 % use more text you could use some more ALT tags and use TITLE tags if you like the review please +rep
Thanks The theme they bought for osCommerce uses nothing but images. I'm currently creating one without tables or images. That should make it more SEO Friendly.
I can give you some tips, but could you please tell me your available budget? Paid links, paid article submissions, paid forum posters, paid content, all these can get your traffic up and increase your SERPs but, you guessed, they're all paid
Where would I go to find out more about getting started with each of those listed above. I've also thought about giving away some golf balls in a traffic contest but not sure how to get started in that area either.
You can buy links in the Trade section of the DP forums. You can find forum posters in the services forum. Content in the copywriting forum (or directly from me - $15 per 500-words optimized article). I'm not very keen on article submission, so I couldn't tell you which paid directories and e-zines are best. Traffic contests are also great Post a thread on the forum, people usually bite on those.
What kind of steps have you taken to create a "user base" or "loyal readers" Thats the real question you need to ask yourself If you get a user base youll gets LOTS of link love and your seo will become easy Hope that helps
Here is what you need <TITLE>John Daly's Discount Golf Shops - Russellville, Arkansas USA</TITLE> - Is the shop a conglomerate? Why are you using golf shops? - Use three phrases in the title of every page that uses 3 or 4 words each. Dont worry about "Russellville, Arkansas USA" add this as text at the bottom of the page the spiders will pick it up. 301 redirects are a failure. Anytime a front page redirects any way any how will throw up a flag to the search spiders. You have a front page, use it. Make it the intro page leading into the shop. But wait... This domain has rank (pr2) http://www.johndalysgolf.com and yet you are duplicating the content on http://www.johndalysdiscountgolf.com/shop/ which will hurt both domains/sites. Search spiders hate 2 sites/domains that have the same content. This will be a failure. Promote the pr2 johndalysgolf.com and stop pointing links to the second domain. The alt tags are not showing up on most of the images and google has pretty much stopped using any tag text (alt or title tags) since about July 07 The design: Why do you have 3 separate and distinct menu's in 3 locations above the fold all in plain view on the page? That is confusing. None of the items at the bottom even make sense. The are a jumble of things You have two references to the sa95 golf set. 2 references to shopping cart and two for search, etc. Come on guys why were these things not seen by you SEO "advisors" it is obvious.
How to you create a "user base" or "loyal readers" for an online store. Everything I read is typically geared toward a blog. I can't write a post everyone will link to. Etc, Etc. I just don't understand how to create that base when dealing with an online store. ideas?
We use golf shops b/c they have two brick and mortar stores in the Northwest Arkansas region. According to Analytics the majority of my google traffic comes from people searching for "golf shops". I get what your saying though and will make changes We use a 301 redirect b/c that's what Google recommends according to this link. http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=34444&query=301&topic=&type= What I would really like to have is for the host of the website to change the root directory of the site to the shop directory. That way I don't have to use a redirect. At least I think that would be for the best, thoughts? ok, now this is confusing and an area where I really need to understand it better. I don't understand how this could have a PR2. When I search for link:http://johndalysgolf.com in yahoo I get 1 page and 14 inlinks. The same search for http://johndalysdiscountgolf.com gets 258 pages and 246 inlinks. But http://johndalysdiscountgolf.com doesn't show a PR in the google toolbar. Should I setup a 301 redirect from johndalysgolf.com to johndalysdiscountgolf.com/shop? Something weird happened the other day. The toolbar doesn't indicate a PR for johndalysdiscountgolf.com but when I used someone elses little tool to show PR it returned a PR4. Apparently google does still use the alt attributes according to this http://www.google.com/support/webmasters/bin/answer.py?answer=70928&query=alt&topic=&type= The site looks complete when I view it through a text browser. Trust me if OSCommerce wasn't such a pain to manipulate this would have already been taken care of. Tables SUCK. Thank you very much, I've got alot to learn from you.