Hey guys, I've had my site (www.sk8ing.co.uk) up for some time now, I'v put a bit of adsense on it but nothing major. I'v raised like $7.10 in adsense in months. So i want to turn to SEO. Could you guys give me some advice on how to improve my site/get more people to my site? Any advice much appreciated or point me in the right direction? Thankyou
Go to your site and then select View then Source (in internet explorer). That is the code the search engines can see. Most of your content is hidden in a frame. Was this done with a blogging software? Something like Wordpress is more seo friendly. Also, it looks like all the posts were done today. It takes time for the search engines to find you. It seems to be loading slowly for me. I wonder if the photos need to be smaller?
you have no content (as coleen indicates you are using frames)... so it is any wonder why you do not have any ranking/ adsense income
Just use http://aboutchris.co.uk/Skating/index.php or http://aboutchris.co.uk/Skating/ as your home page. I can see that's where you're getting your frame source from. Then lets see what SEO score you'll get. Goog luck
This is what Google sees as your http://www.sk8ing.co.uk/ home page... But as you can see, there is virtually zero content. You're framing a page from your other site at http://aboutchris.co.uk/Skating/index.php. If I simply enter http://aboutchris.co.uk/Skating/index.php into my browser, the page could not be displayed the probably 90% of the times I tried (I'm guessing it was returning some type of 500 error). But then it started working. And then it wouldn't display again. Not sure if this is a problem with you code or your hosting. Frames are terrible for SEO cuz each frame that makes up the page is seen as a separate page. If your http://www.sk8ing.co.uk/ site has no unique content of its own and all you are doing is framing your other site http://aboutchris.co.uk/Skating/ then IMO you'd be better off simply 301 redirecting all requests for http://www.sk8ing.co.uk/ to http://aboutchris.co.uk/Skating/ and then optimizing the http://aboutchris.co.uk/Skating/ site for SEO. Your <title> element on the http://aboutchris.co.uk/skating/ is Skating "Sk8ing". Having "Sk8ing" in the <title> element is only going to help you rank for the term "sk8ing" and will dilute your rankings for the term "Skating". Do you really think people are searching Google.co.uk for "sk8ing"? If not then I would suggest changing your <title> to just "Skating" assuming of course "Skating" is the primary keyword phrase that you're targetting on this page. The <title> element is THE most important on-page SEO factor you control. Make sure it precisely targets 1 keyword phrase (maybe 2 or 3 if they are VERY similar) that best describe the content on the page. You don't have an <h1> element on the http://aboutchris.co.uk/skating/ page. The <h1> element is the 2nd most important on-page ranking factor you control. You should have an <h1> element on every page of your site and it should target the same keyword phrase(s) (again assuming "Skating") as your <title> element. Your <h1> doesn't have to have the exact same value as the <title> but should contain the primary keyword phrase that the page's <title> is targeting... For example, if your <title> is "Skating", perhaps your <h1> could be something like "Skating in the UK". I would make sure your primary keyword phrase is at the begining of your <h1> and that the <h1> appears near the top of the page. Remember only 1 <h1> per page. The <h2> element is the 3rd most important on-page ranking factor you control. Your page is using an <h2> to link to each blog post which is great! But you should try to work the word "Skating" (or some variation like "skate" or "skater or "skateboard" or "skateboarding") into the title of each post. Try to use primarily "skating" somewhere in the headings of your posts if that is what you are targeting as the primary keyword phrase for the page, but sometimes use the variations above instead so it doesn't look spammy. This way you have lots of <h2> elements on the page with the word "skating" (or a variation) in it. I have no clue who Chris Troy is, but if he is a skater and Berrics is a skating team then your post should have a title like "Skater Chris Troy Recruited" or "Chris Troy Recruited by Berrics Skating Team" or something like that. I would add a LOT more content in your blog posts. Having 1 sentence blog post like "Chris Troy is the latest Recruit at the Berrics" is NOT going to help you rank... Your posts have virtually zero content. Because the posts are in most cases 1 sentence like the one above, every bit of content from the post is on your http://aboutchris.co.uk/Skating/ and on the post page. I would suggest writing 3-4 paragraphs for each post. Then show the 1st paragraph of each post at http://aboutchris.co.uk/Skating/. Make sure that the first paragraph of each post also contains "skating" and some variations of "skating" like the ones mentioned above. So http://aboutchris.co.uk/Skating/ with have little summaries of the individual posts. And when someone clicks on the summary's title at http://aboutchris.co.uk/Skating/ they will be taken to the post where they can read the rest of the article. You have some canonicalization issues which leads to duplicate content issues and split link juice/page rank. I can get to the above page using http://aboutchris.co.uk/Skating/index.php or http://aboutchris.co.uk/Skating/. You are redirecting from http://aboutchris.co.uk/Skating/index.php to http://aboutchris.co.uk/Skating/, however the redirect is a 302. If you change the redirect from http://aboutchris.co.uk/Skating/index.php to http://aboutchris.co.uk/Skating/ so that it is a 301 Permantly Moved redirect, then http://aboutchris.co.uk/Skating/ will also get credit for all of the inbound links to http://aboutchris.co.uk/Skating/index.php. Backlinks from other relevant sites are VERY, VERY important. This is probably the most influentual ranking factor there is in the Google ranking algorithm. When I search Google.co.uk for link:http://aboutchris.co.uk/Skating/ and link:http://aboutchris.co.uk/Skating/index.php, it appears that the page has NO inbound links. You need to get links to your page if you want it to rank... preferably from pages on other sites about skating and preferably with the keyword phrase or some variation that your are targeting for the page. So you want links from other sites with the hyperlink text being "skating" or "skating in the UK" or "Skate Fever" or whatever. Make friends with others in the skating community and have them link to your pages from their site. LINKS! LINKS! LINKS! I could go on... There is a LOT you can do to improve. Hope this helps.