Better Google ranking

compassue

Hi everyone, i'm new here and looking for some help on improving google ranking.

The site is http://craigtaraholiday.com

I know it's a bit of a niche market but i'd have thought that would make things a little easier?

I'm really trying to target a few specific phrases, craig tara caravans, craig tara caravan to rent (not sure if this should be rent, let or hire) and maybe even craig tara itself.

I'd really appreciate ank kind of suggestions.

Thanks.

I should also add, as a way of getting links in to site, i've registered with numerous online classifieds.

RohanShenoy

I think you have used the keywords/phrases properly, so it Google rankings may probably be just a matter of time.

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myownfreeweb

I wouldn't get too discouraged. Google takes a while to give you good rankings. Most sites stay in the 'sandbox' for about 12 months. If you're lucky you'll get ranked highly and quickly, if not, you have to persist. Keep up the recip linking, and working on the key words, but don't give up. It takes months, not days or hours to make a website work.

compassue

Great, thanks for the advice.

simonb

http://validator.w3.org/check?verbos...holiday.com%2F

if you find

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<meta name="verify-v1" content="bbvQiXIZSOAeuZQtqXu3PLYEPaefdpNhLGoIPik+scA=" >

and replace with

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<meta name="verify-v1" content="bbvQiXIZSOAeuZQtqXu3PLYEPaefdpNhLGoIPik+scA="  />

that should fix that

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compassue

Thanks for that.

simonb

This Page Is Valid XHTML 1.0 Strict!



That should help a little.

What about a redicecter from www.craigtaraholiday.com to craigtaraholiday.com? I can get you the httaccess for that.

Do you have many back links?

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compassue

Nearly all the backlinks come from classifieds, i think i have about 25 to thirty right now.

Is a redirector needed going from one to another? Is there a penalty for not doing this?

All my backlinks are using www. I was never sure whether to use www or not when registering with google. Currently the domain is set to www.craigtaraholiday.com with google.

simonb

ok then i would not worry about that there is no penalty for doing a 301 redirect

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compassue

Thanks again. I was meaning, is there a penalty for not doing it? Duplicate content etc?

simonb

they can be,

if you want i can give you the htaccess

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compassue

That would be a great help, i really appreciate it.

simonb

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Options +FollowSymlinks
RewriteEngine on
rewritecond %{http_host} ^craigtaraholiday.com [nc]
rewriterule ^(.*)$ http://www.craigtaraholiday.com/[/url]/$1 [r=301,nc]

Save in your root directory as .htaccess

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compassue

Thanks a lot.

simonb

Did it work

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compassue

How do you test? I'm guessing by typing in http://craigtaraholiday.com/ to get to www. If that's correct, no it's not working.

simonb

What did you save it as?

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compassue

I saved it as craigtaraholiday.htaccess

EDIT:

I was able to rename the file on the server to just .htaccess but same result.

simonb

It should be called .htaccess

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