So I built a new site and its been slowly getting indexed. Google seems to be including 1 page a day. My question is I check my serp and occasionally the pages fall off for a day, then reappear.. Why is this? Is it because my website is only a week old?
Yes, new websites in the beginning will see web pages getting indexed and de-indexed for a few weeks to even a few months, you'll also see major changes in your SERPs. I generally tell new clients with new sites to ignore SERPs for about 60 days from when the site goes live. Just continue to do on-page and off-page optimization properly.
I have been doing heavy on page optimization for specific keyphrases. Title matches H1 H2 is variant of h1 good meta description and keywords use of keyphrase at the top and bottom of the page. good use of title= attribute in all urls use of keyphrase in summary= attribute for tables use of unordered lists on each page containing my keyphrase navlist at the bottom of each page linking internal pages (displayed as a horizontal ul... each link containing title= attribute of the name of hte page) use of <b> and <em> on keywords. I've been using all those techniques for my pages. THe pages that are being indexed have all shown between page 1 -7 in google for the keyphrases im targetting... Should I expect the final result to be close to this?
Your missing a few things and the most important.... quality content. It doesn't matter what you do on-page or off-page wise if you don't have quality rich content. I suggest you read Stymiee's SEO Faq from Sitepoint, this will help you out and point you in the right direction. I'm sure even though you've spent a lot of time on your site I could find "many" SEO issues, thats why my SEO analysis are so popular on digital point. *see signature*
thank you ssandecki. The site is not going to monetized with adsense. The purpose of the site is to generate leads for my brick and mortar business that I run. From viewing my competition, most of them don't have much content on their pages.... not full articles. I am targeting a specific geographical area since it is a brick and mortar business. (check the my siglink if you really want to see my company website). From viewing my competitions pages, most of their content is a few paragraphs at best, and none of it is actually really optimized at all. It is kind of hard to write a fullpaged article about a keyword such as "network consulting san jose". The users I am targetting are not people looking to come to my website to view articles, but to buy services from me... thus each page is very short and descriptive to the point. Check out some of my internal pages and tell me what you think of as far as me SEO efforts go. I would appreciate your feedback.
I was going to use the geo targetting that is provided in webmaster tools. However I do not want to limit my site to that specified city only. For instance I am based in San Jose... But I would also like to serve San Francisco which is 50 miles away... Wouldn't that block me from my site showing up for that? If so would setting up a subdomain work better? For instance. san-francisco.pcbytescorp.com then geotargetting the subdomain for san francisco.... How would google view my static pages in that case, for instance I would want to keep the layout the same, and the contact,resources and company page would look the same, but the internal pages targetting local keywords would be different.