hiya I have done some basics of SEO, ie: my website started off with frames and i was told search engines didnt like them, so i have redid it without. I have been thru all the pages names and changed them so they have a - so it reads like a space, plus the page names actually have proper titles that actually describe what is on the page now lol I am in the process of changing all the (is it called?) anchor text so it matches exactly whats on the page and the page title (before it had slang/short versions of the names eg: vibes instead of vibrators) Now i am gonna start on all the keywords etc eeeek I am using the meta tag analyzer on the submitexpress.com website .. but to be honest i aint quite 100% sure what i need to change. I have got my index page (enter screen) done (i know .. i hate enter pages too, but with my site being an adult store, my hosts told me i had to have an over 18 disclaimer ) .. the analyzer results for this is at the bottom of this post .. the scores look quite impressive but to be honest i blagged a lot of it lol .. the entry page is just text so it was easy to do. The product pages are a bit more tricky for me to fathom out. eg: the alt tags in the images .. do i just put in the name of the product or do i put some of the keywords in there too ? .. i dont wanna P google off and have them ban me lolololol. Also .. on the below analyzer result, it mentions the robots meta tag thing. I must of got it wrong and misinterpreted something i read on another website .. but i thought you only needed one of those if there was pages you dont want the spiders to look at and index .. i used googles remove url thing to get rid of the old frame pages and desperately want them to index my other pages lolol I know i must be going wrong somewhere, as i cheated and looked at my main competitors page source to get some ideas of their keywords etc (and they had very little in there) .. and i also sent them to the analyzer and their results were much lower than mine, but i am still not getting high results on the searches and my page rank is 0 .. am i being a bit impatient do you think ? My site has been live for about 2.5 months .. or should i be showing results in the searches and page rank thing already ? I dont really know if there is any help or advice you can give me .. as this just reads like random mumbling to me lololol . but if anyone can understand what i am asking i would love your advice hahaha Erica xx Meta tags analysis. Title: Title meta tag contains no errors. This tag contains 77 characters. Title relevancy to page content is excellent. The Title relevancy to page content is 100%. Description: Description meta tag contains no errors. This tag contains 158 characters. Description relevancy to page content is very good. The Description relevancy to page content is 96%. Keywords: Keywords meta tag contains no errors. This tag contains 16 keywords and 251 characters. Keyword relevancy to page content is fair. The keywords relevancy to page content is 81%. Robots: Found no robots meta tag. This tag is not really required but helps spiders to index the web page. Author: The Author meta tag contains no errors. This tag contains 24 characters.
I almost understand, I think. For your pagerank issue and ranking higher in the search results - incoming links are key for that. I didnt see you mention that anywhere but in order to get those things done you need backlinks. To do this you can submit to directories or do link exchanges, ect. As for keywords here is what I would do - Go to http://www.digitalpoint.com/tools/suggestion/ and use this tool. To use it just put it a general phrase on what your site is about. Lets say it is hair products. So what you would do is enter "hair products" and this will return a result of a list of keywords along with an ESTIMATED search per day. Now start from the top of that list and get the keyword. Lets say the first result was "hair products", it probably is. Now go to Google and search for ( allinanchor:hair products ) This will return a result of all the pages on the internet (that Google has indexed) that have the anchor text hair products somewhere in it. This gives you an idea how competitive a keyword is. Generally speaking I like to target keywords that return a result of less than 1000. Now you go through the whole list of these keywords checking on what thier allinanchor is and if its low enough use that keyword in your site. By site I mean description, body, title, ect. By the time you get done with this you should have a list of keywords to use. Now remember you cant stuff all of these in your title tags but I would use the appropriate ones for the page you are putting them on. There is more involved in this and I can get more indepth but this will give you a general idea on how to go about getting good keywords for your site. Remember also targetting a general term like "hair products" that has a large results for allinanchor is pretty much a waste of time. It would take a lot of time and money to ever rank good for these keywords so choose them wisely. Also if the searches per day is very low and isnt worth the time getting that extra visitor a day then I wouldnt target it. Hope all that helps.
hiya aaron_nimocks, and thank you for the reply I will give all that a go, and use the tool you suggested .. i just give it a quick try and it looks interesting .. theres phrases on there i would never of thought of in a million years lol I didnt mention the links and things because i got those covered in a different post lol .. i have been submitting to directories etc like a woman possessed .. well to those that allow adult stores anyway lol. I have also been looking for some adult forums to start posting to, as someone suggested putting a link in my sig on one of those as well. Thanks again Erica xx
Excellent advice there Aaron. I really need to break down and follow through with it myself. Many Thanks..
Knowing what to do and doing it is a huge difference. It can be alot of work and most people in this business are here to be a millionaire overnight without putting too much effort into it. But I agree with you, and I sometimes need to break down and follow my own advice sometimes. But I get lazy.
i dont mind putting in the work and effort .. I actually said to the person at the local business advice centre that i am under no illusion, about how much work i will need to do, and i know that the majority of start up businesses fail within the first couple of years, but if i dont give it a try then to me thats even more of a failure .. the problem i do have however is that i'm technically docile and just dont have a clue about terminology and how the whole search engine thing works .. to be honest before i actually started all this, i naively thought you just did a website, it went live and the search engines found the text on it stop laughing !!! lolololol I have to say though, the more i read and post/ask in here, the more i am learning. I've been a member here less than a week and have learnt more than i have in the past 2 months trying to research it myself. Erica xx
You should also be careful to check the competition of a keyword very carefully. I've seen some keywords with 600 allinanchor results, but the top website has around 20,000 backlinks.
ok will look out for that too, thank you kelp. Is that where you type in link: and then the url into google to see who is linking to that site ? or am i getting confuddled ? Erica xx
Run a search for the keyword in Google, and run the first couple of pages through a backlink checker.
thank you Kelp .. OMG have i got some work to do .. In the checker i found, i have something like 8 backlinks .. 2 of my competitors have 20000 and 32000 lolol Erica xx