Hello, I am having problems getting my website listed highly on google. I am spending a lot on paid adds with Google but not getting any natural traffic from them. What do you think might be the problem. How can I progress and improve my ranking? Lets say I spend $400. How would you improve the ranking? I would prefer paying some freelancer to build up non-reciprocal links rather then finding them myself. Is this the best way? I just dont understand why they dont index the pages highly. The website in question is: invision-gaming.co.uk I want it ranked for keywords, such as Game Servers, Game Hosting etc etc. Thanks,
Well your site was just launched in April. You are definitally in the sandbox. Also, with the .co.uk tld, you should be targeting the Google UK. Run this tool on your site and keyphrases http://www.webuildpages.com/cool-seo-tool/index.php What's the difference between you and them? Pay close attention to site age and backlinks. You are not ready to pay someone to build links for you yet. Even linkbuilders need something to link to. You don't have any compelling content yet. This is a different industry, but check out 106 content ideas for realtors http://www.famousagents.com/content-ideas. You need a 100 point list of COMPELLING content that your clients would eat up, even if they aren't clients. Once you have some compelling content, then begin link building. You will get 4x as many links for the same price if you build the content first. Links will also come naturally at that point.
Thanks Jeremy, that was good advice. Unfortunately I didnt think of purchasing the domain 6 months before I started actually selling. I was developing the website for 6-8 months and so I dont have this time stacked. As for the content, does it matter how it is displayed. I coded a Articles directory a while ago that uses mod rewrite to fake unique pages. You can view it here: I just need to add content I think. http://www.invision-gaming.co.uk/support You can see I have Guides category, news etc.
Yes, your going way to deep with your URL structures. They will never ranks ex. http://www.invision-gaming.co.uk/su.../132-How-to-change-your-servers-hostname.html There is really no reason to go deeper than http://www.invision-gaming.co.uk/guides/article.html What CMS are you using? Looks like PHPNuke or the like. I would personally switch to something more flexible with the structure if you can't make them shorter. My personal favorite is ModX.
Its all coded by myself. I have coded everything by hand. It would be pretty easy to change the structure of the links. All I need to do is change the mod rewrite rule and remove the /support from each link. I dont know why you thought it was PHPNuke though. I thought my site looked more attractive then PHPNuke! Actually insulted lol. PHPNuke is the most hideous thing on the net.
I have just looked at the tool listed http://www.webuildpages.com/cool-seo-tool/index.php and found that its results are not that accurate. but tool looks fairly helpfull. is there any thing out there that does give you an accurate display for your site.