Stuck with SEO - currently PR2

[dotwhack]

Hi - we launched a new website in Aug - it was the first site I've been involved in from start to finish and I was pretty aware of SEO having worked on other sites previously so think I'd taken into account a lot of issues - obviously haven't because we're only page rank 2 so any ideas appreciated to increase page ranking.

Web site is armadamh is any one wants to have a look - targeted to niche market of marine hydraulics.

1) I have a page title which explains what we do - should I have a different page title for each page within website?
2) Metatag keywords are page specific which I think is OK
3) Site is quite text heavy and relevant to what we do so content wise google should quite like it
4) Links - we have links to other relevant sites for what we do and so far probably about 5-10 inbound links - again from targeted sites - although I did use web SEO package to submit to several hundred sites

any one want to help? I don't have a budget to outsource so whatever is suggested, I need to tell my web design what to do.

[fisicx]

Unique page titles for each page - 60 characters max.

Write a unique description for each page - 150 charcters max.

Keywords if you want but most SEs ignore them in any case.

Ensure you have a main header that relates to the page title.

Do not ever use submission software - all you get is a listing in a bunch of spammy directories that really are a waste of time.

What you should be concentrating on is building up the organic listings - because of your specialist services you could get to the top of the SERPs with just one good inbound link as long as your site meets the google guidelines.

Your site is content heavy but you keywords don't really stand out on many of the pages. You need to consider the needs of your visitors - what would they be searching for? Does your page answer their question in the first few sentances? Might be better to remove all references to how good you are and concentrate on telling the visitor what you can do for them.

[shaunudal]

Agree with fisicx he mention all the points here. And accoding to me you can also add one more thing try to do deep linking ( submission your internal pages in good seo friendly directory ) It will help you to popler your internal pages and increase the PR of these pages.

Regards
Shaun

[dotwhack]

I was under the impression that submitting sub-pages isn't good practice.

Am I wrong?

[tims]

Hi,

I'm new here and this is my first post, so I hope it helps you.

Two weeks ago I lauched a brand new site and it is already on the first page of google with a PR of 0 and over a million competing pages. What I am saying is don't get hung up on PR. What you need to do, is simply get lots of incoming links, that's all I did.

I took a look at your site, and the only thing I can see that is wrong with it is a few errors in your English, that make it slightly difficult to read.

I hope this helps, and good luck with it.

Tim

[shaunudal]

Originally Posted by dotwhack

I was under the impression that submitting sub-pages isn't good practice.

Am I wrong?

I dont think its wrong, According to me it help to get ranking on your internal pages. what is your opinion FISICX????

[fisicx]

My opinion?

It makes good sense to target individual pages. Suppose for example you sell widgets. In the red directory you link to red widgets and the plastic directory youl link to plastic widgets. In the local community directory you may link to a page detailing the history of your widget making. If you remember that any page can be a homepage - there are no rules that say a visitor has to land on your homepage so as long as the site meets the visitors needs whereever they land you can use any link you like.

Just think about adwords - none of the campaigns I manage link to the homepage of the site - each ad is targeted to a specifc product or service. The result is a huge ROI.

[tamecrow]

Originally Posted by dotwhack

I was under the impression that submitting sub-pages isn't good practice.

Am I wrong?

It's bad practice to 'submit' any pages of your website. If the site isn't of sufficient quality to be crawled and ranked naturally by Google, then it's not ready. Submission generally implies that you haven't built sitemaps either.

[fisicx]

It's bad practice to 'submit' any pages of your website.

Unless you are submitting to a directory - which was where the comment originated.

As to site maps - they can be a useful tool but they doesn't have the slightest influence on ranking - all they do is give the robots a single file from which to index the site.

[tamecrow]

Originally Posted by fisicx

As to site maps - they can be a useful tool but they doesn't have the slightest influence on ranking - all they do is give the robots a single file from which to index the site.

Or two, if you use XML/text and HTML sitemaps as recommended. I disagree with the influence on ranking. I think it's pretty safe to say that there's a large effect on ranking if the search engines have every page on your site indexed as opposed to just a few of them