Hi all, My site www.newslocale.org was launched today. I would like some critiques on the SEO and whether I have done enough. I have submitted it to bookmarking sites and have put it in my sig here. Any advice on what more I can do would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.
You might want to make the focus of the site clearer. What is it that makes your site different from other news-sites?
I think that should work on your design a little bit, maybe it is good for search engines, but it is not good for humans. You will have to work on your backlinks and writing new content. p.l.u.r.
kh7 and Angelus. Thanks for taking the time. What would you as a third party like to see in the design? I mean what changes would you like to see?
there is still a lot to be done. first of all, you have a nice and targeted domain, though it dosenot matter hugely, but it will give you an edge over your competitors. you have put up this in your title, "news locale" , even though it's in your url, i think you should change it. think for yourself, why would anyone search on the internet by the term news locale! will you do? the solution is, make that "local news" that just might help. next you have put up "home" and this is not going to help you a bit! remove it, and get something better there. give there an important keyword, perhaps something that is related to your content. always remember, title is the most important, and think from google and your visitor's point of view, that which keyword is important in search. in my suggestion, remove the "home" and put there two more keywords with that symbol, "|" between them. "world news" and "sports news" this will help a lot. you need to design your website, the tabular form won't help. get a professional designer, that will help you a lot. and, by the way, i also design pages, so you can get me. you have too many characters in keywords, this should be the proper limit. for title: 50-60 character for descreption: 150-200 character for keywords: 100-150 characters. now about your signature, type in your signature text, "local news" and then hiperlink it with your url. you are putting your url in the signature, and that's not correct. always put your keywords, and they hiperlink them. do this in the link exchange and link sales also, because this is very important in seo. your keywords get's optimised for your link this way! and the most important thing is your site is not indexed in google, so this should be your first priority. better find a pagerank 4-5 website, and buy a one month link, for a price $5-10, and ask them to put your link in the middle of the page or on top. that will help you get indexing quickly. you can go through my seo blog, i have more info there. regards,