Questions about SEO???

[tata]

Originally Posted by kristiamy

I have my own website but have never been able to place top 10 in the search engines. I have read about SEO and even tried to optimize to achieve better positioning without any results.
Can anyone point me to the right direction? I really don't know what I am doing wrong. I am not a professional developer, I am self taught, but have been writing html for years.

Any help will be greatly appreciated..

i have read a paper on latent semantics and believe it will serve you right please try Latent Semantic Optimization

[Peter Lee]

I also think that your homepage should be optimized with the relevant keywords in which you are targeting. Google and other search engines will look for your relevant keywords in your articles which have anchor text keywords pointing to your webpage. Different people have different views on keyword density with some recommending between 3-5%, but most people do not follow any strict density.

Peter Lee

[Edwin]

My opinion is that keyword density is a useless metric, there is no magic keyword density percentage, or an ideal keyword percentage of between 3 - 5%.

The people that are telling this want it to be the perfect percentage because that's probably what they are doing, the fact is that keyword percentages for pages/sites that rank are all over the place.

Trying to calibrate your keyword density on your pages to 3 - 5% or any kind of percentage is a waste of time and useless.

My 2 cents: Just write your content and drop your desired keywords naturally and don't worry about keyword density, when you combine that with a well crafted page title and some good inbound links, good internal linking, then you're well on your way getting good rankings.

[jcorkern]

Edwin is 100 % right. That was the whole purpose of LSI being implimented. to stop the keyword stuffing wars with marketers and to make a wedpage more natural for the surfer.

Write for the visitor and you will be ok, make sure your titles are on target and get some quality links.

Remember, 20 % onpage and 80% links. So, if this is the general rule, what small percentage could density account for anyway? We know that the title carries the most weight with onpage, then h tags, so how much could keyword density count for?

The fact of the matter is that you can have all of your onpage wrong and still get top placements with proper anchor text and quality link. I know i sound like a broken record with this, but "click here" in not on the adobe site anywhere and it ranks # 1 for it in Google.

G.W.Bush used to rank # 1 for "miserable failure" and many claim that Google stopped this but the fact is that the whitehouse changed the filename of G.W.'s profile page.

This was the origional URL to the bio that ranked for "miserable failure"
https://www.whitehouse.gov/president/gwbbio.html

Now his bio is located on this page. President of the United States - George W. Bush


Remember, 80 % links.

[lovekissing]

you must keywords which are top searches...

[mccain]

Hi,

I think you have good website but should do with the SEO now. Try with some seo techniques like the directory submission, social bookmarking, Forums, blogs and the like.
Because, in addition to good on page optimization, off page factors are also important.

mcCain.

[marketingmama]

Hooray for the long tail!!!

Seriously, don't try ranking for something like "weight loss" or "Internet marketing" it's a waste of time.

DIG DEEPER. Always always dig deeper.

I ended up claiming a "brand name" out of sheer timing and luck, for sure, but be creative and try to come up with a niche phrase all you to use when it's time.

For now, 3-4 word phrases. Do your research, do not slack on this step of all steps. I usually make a big list and then narrow it down by visiting the sites in the results. It's a way to see where you "fit in" to the big picture.

But definitely focus more on offpage optimization before thinking that on page changes will help much.

Blogs are immediately more SEO friendly, by the way. My friend was just telling me how her blog got right in there fast no problem while her SBI site is nowhere to be found in the results. The blog is new the SBI is almost a year old.

Oh, and with blogs, be free with the "link love" and eventually you'll be linked back to by some people somewhere that are connected either directly or indirectly. Comment back right away too. And don't make people "join" to post comments. They won't usually.

Plus, comment a lot to other blogs and use the website space to be your friend. If you have more than 1, mix it up, just keep commenting on stuff you want to discuss. Real comments, of course.

Oh and so many people forget to put links in their social media profiles and blog posts. Good traffic sorce when done with style and integrity (not selling and pitching).

Sheree

Sheree

[mccain]

Hi,

In addition to Search engine optimization, website optimization is also important in gaining rank in the search engines. Have a good keyword rich title for your directory. This is very important for Search Engine rankings as they place relevance on titles tags. Try to use the keywords first on your title tag, then your directory name. Also Good Keywords in your categories and subcategories which will produce meaningful URLs which again helps in ranking for these terms.

McCain.

[Peter Lee]

Thanks for all your valuable intput and suggestions. I've also learned that its good to get new high quality relevant links point to your internal pages. I've also read from good SEO tutorials that these are why a website ranks high:

40% because of old BL(backlinks)
25% because of new BLs
15% because of updates
10% because it offers a useful service or resource
10% (other SEO work like check broken links, ensure site fast loading etc)


Peter Lee

[Rob_TID]

Age of your website is also a big one.