hello, i did some white hat SEO (increasing the amount of times my website says a keyword) and it made me drop 350 search results in Yahoo. its a new site (1 1/2 months old)and i only rank with one keyword in google (largemouth+tips) and it managed to drop 1 search result after google picked up the change. what the heck did i do wrong??? the site is Largemouth Bass Fishing Tips Online
You forgot to do the rest of the SEO like getting backlinks, I can only see two. Take a read through this tutorial see if it helps... - Michael
You have to actively participate in link building campaign and drop for a keyword or couple of keywords in search engines are usual thing.You will get back soon.
i added link keywords i added body keywords i add an H1 header i changed the alt tag on my logo im trying to get links inbound but its not easy. ive got 7 in yahoo, 28 in msn, and 0 in google. i keep waiting for a turning point in this site. I had a smilar site (much worse looking, and less information) back in 1999-2001 and it got an easy 500 uniques per day. I dont know if i can get 500 uniqes/day with my new site even though it looks much better, and it has more information.
Submit your site to directories with decent PR and possibly even consider buying a few links from high PR sites.
Google loves old domains. So getting traffic for an old domain is ten times easier than for a new one. It gets so bad that some people don't even bother with a new site. Fixing up the old site might just be a better idea. If you want to help your new domain put a link to your new site on your old site's homepage, submit to the dmoz and you might want to pay for a yahoo directory listing. I'd also consider signing up for linkmarket.net. I've used both linkmetro and linkmarket.net and both of them don't give you a whole lot of relevant links. The best you can get is links from your general category but it's better than sending out link exchange requests via e-mail. For example with fishing tips you could get a few links from other fishing sites and a lot of links from sites in the Sports and recreation categories. You will get a lot of links by paying for their service but It probably won't help you get any more traffic right away.
Write some informative articles and submit them to loads of article directories to get lots of relevant inbound links. Sign up somebody on this forum to submit to a few hundred directories (its $10 for 100 usually). Also you have 4 versions of your homepage, stick to one or you will have problems. You are using: http://www.largemouthbasstips.com/index.php http://www.largemouthbasstips.com/ http://largemouthbasstips.com/ http://largemouthbasstips.com/index.php
this is an issue i am trying to correct today with 301 redirects. if anyone can make up a quick htaccess code for me that would help a lot. someone made one up for me that points http://largemouthbasstips.com to http://www.largemouthbasstips.com/index.php id like a code that redirects ALL to www.largemouthbasstips.com or http://largemouthbasstips.com www or Non-WWW it doesnt matter to me