Can you all take a look at my on-page SEO and offer some tips to a newbie please. The link is in my siggy. Your help is very much appreciated. Thank you.
One thing that I noticed while taking a look at your website earlier today is that you target completely different phrases with your link anchor text and your homepage title. I don't particularly like your footer homepage link either. By spacing out the words 'lotus essence' you are removing all keywords from that link. Your onpage effort should be targeting the same keywords as your offpage link building. Before you proceed much further, you'll need to decide which is your most important keyword phrase.
Ok, please bear with me as I know very little about this. So what you are saying is that I can't have any anchor text that is not my keyword? Well that's not possible for me, since I want to link to my other posts. And I feel it would be redundant if all of my titles had the keywords in them. It just doesn't fit naturally. I need you to explain this a little more for more please because I don't think I"m understanding. And I'm completely lost on the footer reference. I didn't create it. Thanks for your reply.
I don't mean use your main target keyword in the titles of all your individual blogposts. I meant that you should be using your target keywords in your homepage title. If 'law of attraction' is your target phrase, then your homepage title is fine. If that is your main target keyword, you should be using that in your offpage links to your blog. For example, your forum sig links use 'lotus essence' as the link anchor text, but probably few people search for that. You would be more optimized for 'law of attraction' if that phrase was used in your backlink anchor text. As for my comment about your footer, I just had a look at your code and the text is not actually spaced out. It is just the font creating that effect. So you are fine there. It may still help to include some of your keywords in that sitewide link to your hompage. Keyword use in internal links helps rankings too. Basically you need to convince Google that you are relevant for your target phrase. To do that you need to use that phrase in key positions on your site, as well as in your links. Mostly rankings come down to links though.
I would suggest you to read some more about onpage SEO and Offpage SEO and then you might understand completely what vansterdam meant to say. He has explained it great detail.
I have been reading. I read SEO every single day. I'm still learning, which is why I'm here asking questions.
hmmm.. Just a quick tip, this might help you h**p://www.saversites.com/x4_seo_guide_titles.php just replace the h**p with http. Hope that helps.
The onpage aspect of your site is quite good. Title relevancy to page content is excellent. Description meta tag relevancy to page content is good. Keywords meta tag relevancy to page content is fair.