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Old Apr 18th, 2008, 17:32   #1 (permalink)
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leaving military need help with optimisation

As the title of this post suggests; I am leaving the army after 22 years service, too shell shocked to continue and getting older! Consequently am looking to set up my own web design & optimisation small business.

I am in the early stages of learning the subject, consequently am looking for advice on how to get my site seen in search engines, I have entered my site (hope this aint classed as spamming) www.eye-web-design.co.uk
into as many search engines as possible to DMOZ and at least fifty directories, as yet I cant see the results of all the time and effort in Google i.e. Im still no where to be seen for the key phrase Im targeting 'web design wiltshire' and am now asking the contributers to this forum to give advice on how I can achieve a high position for my phrase? I have a small budget and am trying to use that for company formation and web design courses rather than spend it on optimisation, as I am hoping with your help through this post I can apply your suggestions and eventualy get seen.

Questions to help:

How can I gain lots of links into my site without spending thousands of hours sending emails out to companies that probably wont reply or link back?

How can I improve ranking as quick as possible? i.e. what are the most important points of optimisation to do?

My key phrase Im looking to rank high for is 'web design wiltshire' can you help give advice on how to acheive my aim?

Your help is greatly appreciated - consequence of failure - sign back on, more ops - shize
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Old Apr 18th, 2008, 17:49   #2 (permalink)
 
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This is an extract from Spinal007's Newsletter.

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One Page One Phrase Strategy

        This is by no means the definitive way of doing things, but in the ever-changing world of SEO, Iīve found the following techniques to work very well on any given page targeting a certain key-phrase. Use the following as a checklist for your own projects.
        If I had to optimise a page for "car sales" I build a page where...
    URL is SE friendly version of the phrase (site.com/car+sales/)Title is the phrase (<title>car sales</title>)Phrase is at the start of description meta tagPhrase is at the start of keywords meta tagH1 is the phrase - matches title (<h1>car sales</h1>)H2 is variation of or contains the phrase (<h2>cars on sale</h2>, <h2>cheap car sale</h2>, <h2>online car sale</h2>)When possible, all links to the page use the key-phrase (<a...>car sales</a>)At least 3 <strong>/<em> occurrence of phrase within paragraph text <strong>car sales</strong> and <em>car sales</em>) - whilst also making sure there arenīt many other strong/em tags using other phrases which would reduce the density of our key-phrase.The key-phrase appears in 1 of the first 2 and 1 of the last 2 paragraphs of the document. When you write a document about something, you usually mention it in the introduction and the conclusion. This technique enforces the importance of the key-phrase within the page content.Thereīs at least one image using the phrase in its source and alt text (<img src="/img/car+sales.jpg" alt="car sales"/>)The page links to itself with the title of the page - this means you have at least one link within the page that uses that exact phrase, and you have at least one link with that phrase that links to the page. Two birds, one stone.        PS.: for a phrase like "car sales", itīs tempting to use stop words like "cars for sale" or "cars on sale" and itīs important to structure your content so you can avoid these. words like "the", "and", "a", "for", "or", "in" and a few others do nothing but diminish the density of your keywords within a phrase...
The whole article can be found here.

http://creativecoding.webforumz.com/...quick-list.php

I hope this helps, it certainly helped me.

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Old Apr 18th, 2008, 23:32   #3 (permalink)
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Re: leaving military need help with optimisation

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Thanks for the mention Pat.

I had a quick look at your website and you have several other problems, but don't be alarmed, these are all things that you will soon pick up with a little more experience:

- Don't use spaces in URLs:
http://www.eye-web-design.co.uk/web design.html
...actually becomes...
http://www.eye-web-design.co.uk/web%20design.html
...and in SEO you want to be crystal clear about everything I do. Eliminate any ambiguities that might cause problems during crawling/indexing.

- I like the fact you have taken the care to write proper page titles, but they lack a theme. I recommend you cary the word Wiltshire on every title to re-enforce the association of that word with your services. Also, try to make each title contain the phrase you hope to rank well for.
eg.: on this page, "site optimisation(SEO)reports" could be better as "SEO Service Wiltshire" or "SEO Consultancy Wiltshire"

- You are using proper semantic headings - that's good - but they're stuffed with long sentences (h1 tags in particular). Focus your emphasis on the words that matter.

- You're duplicating your frontpage by linking to /index.html.
Your frontpage is http://www.eye-web-design.co.uk/
It is not http://www.eye-web-design.co.uk/index.html
(2 different urls with the exact same content)

This wastes PR because external links will point to /, whilst all internal links will waste their PR on /index.html (a separate page)

Gotta run, but hope that helps...
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For Spinal's last point about duplicate content, see this:
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