Help with regional keywords

[AlanJM]

I'm a photographer and I'm trying to get my site ranked higher in different regional areas. Which of the following method is best

wedding photography guildford, wedding photography portsmouth, wedding photography southampton
wedding photographer guildford, wedding photographer portsmouth, wedding photographer southampton
wedding photographers guildford, wedding photographers portsmouth, wedding photographers southampton

or should it be

wedding photography guildford, wedding photographer guildford, wedding photographers guildford
wedding photography portsmouth, wedding photographer portsmouth, wedding photographers portsmouth
wedding photography southampton, wedding photographer southampton, wedding photographers southampton

I need to list about 30 different town’s, is there a more efficient way of doing this, is there a method of listing counties rather than individual towns.

Should the keywords only be listed between the <META NAME="Keywords" content="”> tag or should they be listed between the <TITLE> </TITLE> tags as well

My website is alanmassey.co.uk

Any help would be most appreciated

Alan

[alans]

I think the first one is good. You have do submission in every region and use the keywords between Meta tag & content.

Alan

[SearchStars]

Alan, this is really not the right way to go about things. I've just looked quickly at your home page and I can see that you have just dumped a load of phrases into the tags. Some quick points;

1. The Keyword tag is rarely used by the major search engines these days, so there will be no benefit to just dumping these phrases into this tag.

2. The title tag is very important but the search engines only read the first 65 or 70 characters of the title tag so you can't put that many phrases into it.

3. If you are not careful you could get your site penalised for keyword spamming.

I would recommend that you start from scratch by deleting the phrases from you index page tags and then read as much about SEO as possible before doing anything else.

Good luck.

Mark

[andyf]

Hey Alan
IMO there is no hard and fast rule for doing so, you never know what ppl will search for, so better target all of them I would suggest you to submit your site at all small and big UK search engines so that you will get decent traffic.

Why are you limiting yourself for just 30 towns ?

Keywords in title tag are important but you should not spam it, Try to use your keyword throughout your content wisely.

I am afraid to see that you don't have any backlink for your site. Is you site a new born baby ?
First of all i will also suggest you to get as many as relevant backlinks for your site.
Also you site lack in content, just try to have good helpful content with keywords so that you may rank better.

All the best....

[SearchStars]

I wouldn't waste your time submitting to the search engines as this has not been necessary for several years now. Also, we do know what people are searching for as there are plenty of keyword research tools available on the market. I use Wordtracker http://www.wordtracker.com/ and they have a free trial which you could use.

As andyf say's, you need plenty of backlinks and a lot more content on the site.

[MrCat]

Focus more on general SEO rather than just on your on-page optimization. There really isn't any assurance on having the results that you want just by those meta tags.

[andyf]

Originally Posted by MrCat

Focus more on general SEO rather than just on your on-page optimization. There really isn't any assurance on having the results that you want just by those meta tags.

Yep that's true..... Meta tags are not that important today but you should not ignore on-page optimization try to use your main keywords in Title, h1 and as anchor text also while getting backlinks from other sites this will help you in SERP.

[Birmingham]

title tag carries great weight but meta tags carry nearly none.

try this:

• wedding photography in guildford
• wedding photography in portsmouth
• wedding photography in southampton

use "in" because it's proper grammar, and google can detect this.

and don't create seperate pages for synonyms like "photography, photographer, photographers"...etc because google knows they're synonyms and will send people to you either way. just be sure to have good paragraphs on the page which mention all the words, within good sentences

[pickaweb.co.uk]

If you overload your page with keywords that could work against you.