Hello everyone, I have been reading this forum for a few months and have tried to implement a lot of different things to get my website to show up on google, yahoo, and msn. Things I have done... I have recently started to write articles and submit them. I have added my website to every online directory that I can find that is related to my business. I have been adding my site to social bookmarking sites. I have been trying to get as many backlinks as possible. I spend at least 2 hours a day trying to get my website to show up in search engines. The highest ranking I have gotten is 123 on Yahoo. The highest I have ranked on google is 361 but that was only for a few days and it looks like google has dropped me again. I'm frustrated and don't know what I am missing. If anyone can give me some ideas or tips I would greatly appreciate it. My website has a PR rank of 2 and the site is 8 months old. Thank you, Melanie www.pinkpearlimages.com
Hi, It depends on what your search term is. If there's a lot of competition for that term then it will take you a long time to get high in the rankings. It sounds as though you are doing the right kind of things, you just need to keep doing them and you'll begin to see a steady rise in your rankings. Unfortunately nothing happens quickly in terms of seo.
You need to have an onpage optimization on your site to rank in google. Put some allt tags on your pic.
Hello Melanie.. You are doing absolutely correct tasks for promoting of your site. Missing of your site some times happens if there are many computaters for that keyword. Selection of keyword is most important. If the search volume of that keyword is too high then it takes lao of time for your site to get good position. Continue the work what u are doing. You will definetly get your position back
At a glance you definitely need on-page optimization. Some of your pages have the same title and description tags, and these should be different for each page. Use your keywords on your pages; use them in your titles; use them in your descriptions. Your description can be a lot longer than it is now. Use a couple of sentences to describe what is on the page; use verbiage taken straight from the page, if possible. I use this tool a bunch. It is a decent guideline for how you can beef up your on-page optimization, and meta information. http://www.submitexpress.com/analyzer/ (type in your web address, and select 'googlebot' from the drop-down menu) Best of luck!
What term are you going after? - Your homepage has no content. You need HTML text on your homepage that includes the term(s) you want to target -Title tag could be much better. Putting "Pink Pearl Images" at the beginning of your Title tag does you no good. You want unbranded keywords at the beginning of your Title -Move the javascript on your homepage to an external JS file. Your code to text ratio is poor. -I don't see any page headers that use heading tags on the site (<h1>, <h2, etc..) -Your navigation is text (which is good) but the anchor copy used is far too generic. For example, instead of "Pricing", try "Wedding Photography Pricing". Work some of these text links in to the copy as well. -You need more backlinks. I'm seeing 200+ in Yahoo. It's a start but you have a long way to go. That was just from the quick look I took at the site, but I hope that helps you.
i have looked at your site quickly. i c that your site is about 10 months old which is enough to get ranked for any long tail keyword. you said you have been building links but i only see 2 backlinks on google and 30 links on yahoo. you will not get ranked for any competitive terms with so low link count and will need to build lot more quality links. another thing which is very important also, your site needs major redesigning. currently your homepage doesn't have any content. you need text on your site which is a major part of on-page optimization. same goes with inner pages where you dont have any text content either. so 2 advice, redesign your site to add text content and build quality backlinks (do a proper keyword research before you build links to understand your competition)
I wasn't expecting a response so quickly. I'm going to try to figure out how to change some of the code on my website so that I can do what you all have suggested. We paid a lot of money for this website and it's a shame that they didn't do any of what you guys have suggested. The terms we are using are Toronto wedding photographer, and wedding photography toronto Thank you for taking the time. Melanie
All the advice here is good and although you might want to consider redoing the homepage to give it some more html for the bots, you can actually overcome that problem (as long as you have good alt text for your images) with lots of backlinks. Try to get all of your clients, your friends, your family, your old schools, etc to link to you. I've seen a number of flash pages rank on the first page of google for popular keywords because of their good, relevant backlinks. A good example is a popular music venue that is built in flash - it gets links back from any event, venue or gig listing site, and many newspapers, so it ranks highly.
alot of good advice here to use. IMO, try and focus on your top 2-3 keywords and go through the repetitive process. Content: make sure those keywords standout on your site, from a visual and more importantly, SEO Perspective Links: it seems you are doing this already, but focusing on adding content on pages deep within your site, and not just your homepage. SEO is that funny thing, but seeing that work appear on the top of search engines puts that pretty smile on your face every time!
The internet is cruel. Your works are great and I think you should rank higher. Lets see what I can do about it My wife is out with the girls, I am having a boring evening here at home in Israel so I took a deeper look on your website. I am by no means a SEO guru, but I believe that you will be rewarded if you pay close attention to the following tips: sitewide deadly mistakes 1) Keywords: On your site, you have only 3 keywords. it should be AT LEAST 5, and better be 20. Carefully select your keywords to have a search volume which is not negligible on one hand, and not too big to beat the competition on the other hand. (for this you can use google's adwords keyword tool, look it up). In your blog, where SE might find some juice, you have no keywords at all! 2) description metatags. Manipulate those to match each page's content. You have 109 pages indexed, not bad. But what google sees in most of the is not described. That leaves bad impression on google, and even worse, is not too inciting for the user that reaches the page to click and enter. That's all there is to say about your work on cindy and chris? September 2008 August 2008? will you click a search result like this? 3) INSITE LINKS!. Link everything, anchored with your focused keywords (use this anchor also in your external links). So many examples of bad practice in this sense. couple of examples: in the portfolio, the "wedding" and "engagement" words are pictures and not good-old <a> links. in the blog, the link back to the homepage is "website" instead of "toronto xxx yyy photographers homepage". the posts contain no links. etc' Page specific: HomePage. ADD MORE CONTENT! its empty, very bad. -> Move the small footer to the center of the page -> Try to link everything possible straight from the homepage. this is not just SEO, this is business. Internet surfers are lazy. They need everything infront of their eyes! i.e. -> Add more stuff! "our recent projects: ... <a>gaga and dada</a><br/><a>dada and gaga</a>". "click here to get a 10% discount valid until 6.2.2009!". "watch our award winning portfolio". "news: we have a new camera of model XX YY with XX YY lense and XX YYxXX YY resolutions. No one will manage to hide his happiness!" About page: more text+more insite links! What are your names? when did you start your business? which lenses and cameras you use? what is your relevant education? what do you look like? or the most kitchy about page blah blah: what is your "mission" and "vision" (except for making $$ and so on. Blog and Portfolio. -> Keywords, Keywords, Keywords. -> Links, Links, Links. Less pages, more links. -> reverse the picture to text real-estate ratios. should be 80%-90% text, and 10%-20% pictures and not vice versa. When a picture comes, the user should see the text before and after it. And more importantly: I had time to make coffee until the blog and the portfolio pages loaded!. More than 2 seconds for a webpage is BAD. Reduce the picture files' resolution and quality, no more than 20k each. you don't need 500k for each picture. If you insist on having a higher quality pic as well, link each pic to another page where a higher res is version displayed. This is also good for SEO: <a>watch gaga and dada wonderful wedding photographs in high resolution!</a> lots of SEO juice. There are more mistakes like loose doctype and so on, but these are "fine tuning" and not deadly like those mentioned above, to my view. Good Luck!
Thank you everyone. Looks like I have some work to do. Now I can stop spinning my wheels trying to figure out what I need to do. Chaos thank you so much for giving me such detailed advice and for taking such a good look at my website. Your critique is really helpful and easy for me to understand. Melanie
Another very important thing I forgot! Decide, if your site will be www.ppi.com, or ppi.com. and redirect the other one. see for example my site, typing chaostrivia.com will redirect to www.chaostrivia.com The redirect must be sitewide: calling the page ppi.com/xxx/yyy must redirect to www.ppi.com/xxx/yyy (or wise versa) I develop with ASP.NET and I dont know how to do it with php... learn how to do it by googling it, something called .htaccess good luck great work