SEO Advice

Hello,

About 2 months ago I got some advice from this forum about SEO, I am still seeing poor results accross the 3 main se's and was advised by those helpers to post again if nothing improved.

The site was launched 1st Sept, the main seo effort was on the pages under quick find, and the link text are the main KW's with Devon or Cornwall added on. I have better quantity and quality links than my main competetors.

Can anyone have a look and give me some advice as I am pulling out my hair

 

What are the sites? Are those the ones u have on ur signature? If so what terms are u looking at for SEO?

 

Yes in sig accommodation devon and cornwall the KWs are the same as the anchor text in the navigation bar under quick links for each page they point to

 

You might want to consider tidying up your HTML a bit:

There are two doctype declarations, one for XHTML 1.0 (which is in the correct position) and one for HTML 4.01 (which is in the wrong position). Looking at your code you should only have the 4.01 and move it to the right place.

The page has a second <title> tag (which is the MOST important tag in SEO - <title>Untitled Document</title>

There are a lot of missing quotation marks such as <img src=adverts/K&Jbutton.jpg> and i don't think your supposed to use characters like & in a filename.

There seems to be a lot of things you can do to tidy up the code and make your site look a little more respectable to the SE's.

I suggest using HTML Tidy for FireFox to help you find the errors, or the W3.org Validator

 

How do you rank in allinanchor?

 

I am doing this now, thank you!

I assume you can also validate css?

the second html 4.01 is comming from co-op I think, should I only have the html 4.01 and not the XHTML 1.0?

 

Validating CSS is less important as the SE's dont read style sheets, worth doing from a usability point of view tho

 

Ranks for allinurl:
#1 - Accommodation Devon and Cornwall
#5 - Devon and Cornwall
#6 - Devon Cornwall

Looks like its possible you're still in a 'sandbox' situation. I'd fix the Titles think and other suggestions, then look to the top ranking sites for some pointers.

Do a keyword density check on the consistantly top ranked sites for you keywords - make sure you fall in that keyword density range on your own site.

 

Can you recommend a good density checker? some seem to give crap results!!

 

I like the results this gives:
http://www.ranks.nl/ (for pages under 40K)

Plain, strait to the point results:
http://www.searchengineworld.com/cgi-bin/kwda.cgi

 

Thanks AzAkers, I will look at that after validation!!, god this is a nightmare it makes little or no sense to me, shows the down fall of wysiwyg, should learn to be a real coder!! rather than a make it worker!!

 

www.seo-kit.com

 

that SEO-Kit.com density checker gives me VERY different results than most other density checkers.

For instance:
URL tested: http://www.phoenixhardparts.com
"Rebuilt transmission" in most density checkers 9-10%
"Rebuilt transmission" with this density checkers 3%

Whats the deal with that..? does it not count alt tags or what..?

 

I think it only counts the text on the page. The 3% should be only when "Rebuilt transmission" is put together.

 

My densities seem good, and I am kicking the ass of most competators both off and on page, MSN are loving the site at the moment and google I am ranking well on easy terms - guess Sandbox theory is inforce still as mentioned above. Is the adsf...... search still a method of testing for the SB effect, I seem to think it has lost is power.

 

I took a quick look at your code noticed a lot of <h1> tags. I generally only have one h1 tag per page and I try to match it as close as possible to the <title> tag.

My personal guidlines are:

1 h1
2 h2
3 h3
As many H4 tags as you need

Think about the intended use of header tags from a document organization perspective (the same way you would organize a report in MS-Word).

Use the H1 and H2's to prioritize the main keyword phrases or theme for that particular page.

BTW on this page: http://www.visitdevonandcornwall.com/disabled.php the text in the well is too wide and is being truncated by the lef-right columns.

-jay

<h1 align="center" class="textbar">Holiday  Accommodation
       Devon &amp; Cornwall</h1>
  <h1 align="center" class="style9">&nbsp;</h1>


        <h1 align="justify" class="style3">&nbsp;</h1>
        <h1 align="justify" class="style3">&nbsp;</h1>
        <h1 align="justify" class="style3"><a href="/index.php"><img src="/images/logo2.gif" width="63" height="42" border="0" /></a>Holiday accommodation throughout Devon
          and Cornwall.  </h1>

<h1 align="justify" class="style3"><a href="/index.php"><img src="/images/logo2.gif" width="63" height="42" border="0" /></a>Self
          Catering, B&amp;B, Hotels
          .........</h1>
        <h1 align="justify" class="style3"><a href="/index.php"><img src="/images/logo2.gif" width="63" height="42" border="0" /></a>Disabled Holiday Accommodation</h1>

   <h1 align="justify" class="style3"><a href="/index.php"><img src="/images/logo2.gif" width="63" height="42" border="0" /></a>Web
          Design.</h1>

       <h1 align="justify" class="style3"><a href="/index.php"><img src="/images/logo2.gif" width="63" height="42" border="0" /></a>Devon
        &amp; Cornwall Forum.</h1>

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