Companies Ignoring SEO Advice!

[Ian J]

Yahoo seems to be in the middle of a period of transition. My site has been number one there for the last couple of years but has recently been demoted. it doesn't particularly worry me as 90% of my hits come from Google anyway.

[Boro97]

Originally Posted by peterjhale

right OK then, you have some good friends then

your buddies on the wholesale forum and related sites have provided you with some good links

the reason you rank high are:

- lots of good links from many related sites
- good onpage SEO eg: "designer clothes" in your <title> and description and "onpage"

if you have stumbled on this then well done.

Just continue this.

because that term gets thousands of searches a day so I suspect you get a lot of traffic from this?

I don't know thats why i'm asking i have 101 links on my site only 49 relate to clothing

[peterjhale]

Ian has a good point.

There are 3 search engines. If you're #1 in MSN and Y! then you can earn a decent living

If you are #1 in Google and nowhere in MSN and Y! then you can earn a decent living

There are many ways to skin the SEO cat...

[peterjhale]

Originally Posted by Boro97

I don't know thats why i'm asking i have 101 links on my site only 49 relate to clothing

so long as you dont link out to pharmacy, betting, gambling and the like, you should be OK
remember that you are responsible for who *you* link to - people linking to you should not harm your rankings..

[Boro97]

Originally Posted by peterjhale

so long as you dont link out to pharmacy, betting, gambling and the like, you should be OK
remember that you are responsible for who *you* link to - people linking to you should not harm your rankings..

Thanks anyway Peter all i need now is to get high up on google and any advise more than welcome cheers

[JustOneUK]

Originally Posted by cwag

Hi folks. New to the forums.

I run my own small web design and development business, and will always brief clients on seo before beginning their sites.

One of the main points I emphasize is relevant text, or any(!) text in some cases. I can find it very frustrating when people require websites, and either don't have content ready for them, or expect someone else to write it for them (and not have to pay for it). Then of course, when their websites don't do so well in the search engines, suddenly they're asking questions.

I see there are a lot of web folk on here... does anyone else experience this problem?

in answer to the original question... YES, it's incredibly frustrating as people want websites that they know nothing about. Once you tell them that the only way they will get traffic to their site is if they PAY FOR IT, they generally start to listen to you. That's where your Design/SEO price list rears it's head

James.

[fisicx]

Yahoo is a directory site. SERPs in Yahoo often bear no relationship to the SERPs from the more algorithmic search engines.

As suggested, you don't rank at all on Google, ask. msn etc.

To do well on the 'majors' you need lots of quality inbound links (PR5+), quality content with relevant key words and keyphrases, lots of internal links and a lot of hard work.

[A.N.Onym]

I'd say "a lot of hard work" would be the key single modifier here

[Bill Deakin]

Originally Posted by A.N.Onym

I'd say "a lot of hard work" would be the key single modifier here

I'll certainly second that comment... and add one more... have patience!

Don't expect to be able to rank highly for a given keyphrase quickly - you need to think of SEO as a longterm strategy. Start, as has been said before, BEFORE you start to design the site. If that is not possible then start ASAP but don't expect much in the way of results early on. Build your inbound links, write more quality content, read and implement as much good advice on SEO (from trusted resources) as you can, and give it time - and you will find that your rankings improve.

Bill

[A.N.Onym]

I'd also recommend to target the less competitive keyword phrases, the ones with 3-5 keywords. It is easy to get ranked on them and they can bring really targeted traffic if you target a lot of them.