Hi, I am planning to optimize one web page (not the home page). The question: how effective it is? If the answer is "It's not effective and not as good as if you optimize your site", then tell me the reason. What is the difference between if I optimize the home page and an internal web page?
it will be batter to optimize home page for generalized terms like your offering and other general products. where as internal pages should be target those keywords which are there in the content. you must go systematically rather than randomly. all the best
optimizing inner page for a specific keyword is not a bad idea. but it will be beneficial if you optimize home page.
Yes, You can optimmize internal page,but it is wise to optimize home page first,then internal pages.Any user who comes to your site will always see your home page first,then internal pages. Regards sums123
Not true at all if they've come from a search engine they'll see first whatever page had the searchterm/keyword they looked for. If you've got a site with quite a lot of pages, most of your search engine traffic won't see your home page first.
Thanks for the answer but I heard that if we keep updating our website (adding new web pages every day), it will be better for SEO in our targeted keywords. Now, if I target that keyword through one of my web pages (not my home page), adding new web pages every day will increase my SERPs or not? Because I heard Google loves rich content but what is the meaning of rich content here? I understand that if our domain has a rich content, Google will put more value to our home page, but will it give more value to our specific web page? If i have a new web page, does the new web page affect my optimized web page for my targeted keyword? I am planning to optimize my internal web page (but not my home page), how it affects the SERPs?
Google visits each page either new or old and determines the relavancy of that page for a particular keyword or key phrase. If your page is relevant it will get listed in the index. If you have external links to that page from relevant on topic sites then that page will appear higher in the serps. The more targeted or niche your content is, the easier it is to get your page listed as there is less competition. So the best strategy to employ is to build lots of niche pages all related to the overall theme of your site and get external links to those pages.
Here is the problem. I plan to target one highly competitive keyword in Google (and Yahoo as well) but I want to make my domain's name looks unique. But we all know that Google also puts value to the domain name. Because of this reason, I want to optimize my web page (not my homepage) which contains my targeted keyword. Example: Let's say i am targeting keyword: sex. Now I want my domain name to be: cde.com. Is it better for me to optimize my web page (let's say) cde.com/sex.html for this keyword? Because I think we need to include our targeted keyword inside our web page for SEO.
Too much confusion in this thread. Anyway, from what I see in your signature you already know what you are doing, but lets take it as example. You have a site for laptops, the whole site is about laptops so it naturally you'd optimize the homepage for the keyword laptops (or lap top, or notebook, or portable computer etc etc). On that same site you have category for dell lap tops (again your site as example). It would make more sense that you optimize the proper del lap tops page (or folder) for the keywords "dell lap tops" rather then the homepage. People have already performed a search query in the search engines, and they will be not searching for more in your websites, so land them at the correct page, it will perform better in sales and user experience as well. If a subpage is harder to be optimized rather then homepage is quiet possible but not impossible. Homepage's tend to rank better rather then subpages, but this does not mean that subpages can't over rank homepages in the SERPs (but subpages or landing pages in this case, will generate more sales)
No, it's not about my laptop site, it's about my other site. I want to make a unique domain name (like facebook, youtube, etc. They all have unique domain name), that's why I want to optimize my internal web page, not my home page.
i m getting your point but as i mentioned earlier you can target that keyword in subpage but you must mention that keyword or generalized keyword phase on homepage content, meta description. as per my experience you will easily get rank even if you have put that keyword once for homepage. after 3-4 months as per keyword competition, you will get rank for inner page.