Are you learning SEO and having trouble?

[SEO_Expert]

Are you learning SEO and having trouble getting the results that you desire after performing search engine optimization on a website?

Do you have questions about search engine optimization, keyword research, or submitting websites to search engines?

Would you like to learn more about evaluating a website before and after the optimization process, optimizing keywords, or how to optimize a website to be placed within the top 10 at Google search results for selected keywords that you are targeting?

Feel free to post your questions about SEO here, or contact me personally to talk or chat about search engine optimization. I will do my best to answer questions, show you examples, or point you in the right direction.

[IBN]

Hello, thank you for this post.

O.k.;

I googled "SEO expert" with and without quotes. With quotes the website theseoman dot com shows up on page 3 and without quotes shows up on page 4. The domain name was registered in 2005.

1. What steps would you take to get it on the first or second page?

2. What is the usual difference in traffic between sites on the first & second page and those on the 4th & 5th page ect...

3. Is it possible for google to spider text that are an image, like text in a logo, ect..

4. Jewelryorganizers dot net: What do you see as "Right" or "Wrong" with this website as far as SEO is concerned and please describe what and how you came to your conclusions. Also what can a person do to increase the SEO for such a site the way it is.

Thanks...

[SEO_Expert]

Hi...

I discovered the same thing myself, my name is top around Top 35 at Google for the keyword search phrase: SEO Expert

I was not even trying to "do this," it just happened naturally, but I can and I will improve the rank (placement) of this keyword phrase for my name.

1. The steps I would take in improve the relevancy would include: Add additional optimized backlinks to other websites, add additional pages to the website with relevant contact, and rewrite some of the content on the current page or pages.

2. It depends on too many "things" to make an accurate prediction, it would most depend on the search engine user, what the person it looking for, and the saturation of relevant results for the term the user is searching for.

3. No, but images can be named and have alternative text assigned to them which can help to optimize them as well.

4. It does not have custom title tags, it does not have anchor text (optimized text links), the Meta tags could be much better, I think it has too many Google Ads, and I think the site could have a better internal link structure with a few more pages. These are just a few things of many that I can see quickly, to better optimize this website you would need to improve on some of the items I noted above.

If you have any further questions, concerns, or comments, please let me know. If you would like to contact me to chat in private, feel free to do so.

Kind Regards,

[IBN]

Thanks for those straight up and right to the point answers, I really appreciated that. ( Now either somebody will pull your card in what you said and it will be time or your right on the mark.) j/k.

O.K., here's a few more questions:

1. You said: "I think it has too many Google Ads" is this just for personal tastes as to the aesthetics of the site or is their some type of google "penalty" for having too many ads? Penalized for having a MFA site for example....

2. You said: "images can be named and have alternative text assigned to them"
Does it matter as to how many words you use to "name" the image or can you go on and on for a paragraph or two?

3. How much does or can a domain name play in SEO. A keyword domain, acronyms or something made up; Or does it all depend on what's going on in the back end.

4. You said:

A. "Add additional optimized backlinks to other websites",
Does that mean hot linking the word 'seo expert' on other websites?

B."add additional pages to the website with relevant contact"
I assume you meant content, What roll does the size of a site play in seo, is it simply a matter of more content to be spidered?

C. "and rewrite some of the content on the current page or pages."
What role does rewriting the content play? What about just adding more content as opposed to rewriting it?

5. You said:
"the Meta tags could be much better"
expound on this, what's the best way to do meta tags? How should they be done. Also, I thought the spiders no longer paid to much attention to the meta tags anymore, no?

Thanks...

[The Leader]

Lots to learn but rome wasn't built in a day so patience is a virture.
Keep on reading threads in SEO forums and it will soon make sense!

[big-chad]

Nice Info SEO_Expert. It's nice to see someone who will take the time to give people feedback like this. IBN- It took me years to accumulate and fine tune my SEO skills so be patient. SEO_Expert brings up a great point that you need to bump up the content it'll give it some more weight in the Search Engines. Plus you need to optomize it better getting your Key words within the first 100 words and linking your key words both internally (within your site) and externally to relavnet sites.

Keep the conversation going, I am new to this forum but love reading and following anything SEO or SMO related.

[dburk]

Hi Brett,

Thanks for posting this vague and over-generalized information.

I believe IBN has picked up on something. Are you intentionally offering vague non-specific information because you have no intention of helping anyone but yourself?

I have seen this same pattern over and over from you. You start out a post offering to help anyone who asks. Then you only give vague non-specific answers while you troll for new clients.

When pressed hard you sometimes reveal a few specifics but always fall back to the same ole' worn out "contact me privately" for the close of your sales pitch.

I know your reputation from other forums and I hope you will behave better in this one.

Breakout the popcorn folks, you gonna love this guy.

[biggedon]

Originally Posted by dburk

Hi Brett,

Thanks for posting this vague and over-generalized information.

I believe IBN has picked up on something. Are you intentionally offering vague non-specific information because you have no intention of helping anyone but yourself?

I have seen this same pattern over and over from you. You start out a post offering to help anyone who asks. Then you only give vague non-specific answers while you troll for new clients.

When pressed hard you sometimes reveal a few specifics but always fall back to the same ole' worn out "contact me privately" for the close of your sales pitch.

I know your reputation from other forums and I hope you will behave better in this one.

Breakout the popcorn folks, you gonna love this guy.

agree


we are well aware of his motives with these threads, and have noted the solicitation tactics.

[SEO_Expert]

Originally Posted by big-chad

Nice Info SEO_Expert. It's nice to see someone who will take the time to give people feedback like this. IBN- It took me years to accumulate and fine tune my SEO skills so be patient. SEO_Expert brings up a great point that you need to bump up the content it'll give it some more weight in the Search Engines. Plus you need to optomize it better getting your Key words within the first 100 words and linking your key words both internally (within your site) and externally to relavnet sites.

Keep the conversation going, I am new to this forum but love reading and following anything SEO or SMO related.

THANK YOU CHAD!

Originally Posted by dburk

Hi Brett,

Thanks for posting this vague and over-generalized information.

dburk needs a job or a new hobby.

He likes to try to find fault in everything that I do.

If you want to blame me for something, blame me for trying to help others learn what it took me (8) eight years to learn.

I have a good track record with helping others, the thanks that I receive account for that.

dburk seem to be a real creep, please leave me alone and stop following me around or I might need to teach you who I am the hard way.

I think may need to call in the "jaws of life" to get dburk off me, if needed I will do so.

I do my best to try to offer help and useful advice to others, while helping them bring light to new concepts that they may not yet consider.

dburk is just a punk and he has proved that with his own words already... Enough Said.... Please leave me alone and go make yourself useful.

Do I need to contact you to ask about what I can and can not post in a public forum? Are you a forum God or something? No and um.. No...

If you are here to help then help someone, you are just here to post lies and act like a true jerk.

BRAIN DEAD PEOPLE LIKE DON MAKE ME NOT WANT TO HELP OTHERS, BUT THE PEOPLE THAT THANK ME, MAKE IT WORTH IT.

Kind Regards and Wishing you the Very Best,

[dburk]

Originally Posted by SEO_Expert

THANK YOU CHAD!




dburk needs a job or a new hobby.

He likes to try to find fault in everything that I do.

If you want to blame me for something, blame me for trying to help others learn what it took me (8) eight years to learn.

I have a good track record with helping others, the thanks that I receive account for that.

dburk seem to be a real creep, please leave me alone and stop following me around or I might need to teach you who I am the hard way.

Here is a great example of how dburk (DON) - likes to ride me....

Keyword Domain Names

I think may need to call in the "jaws of life" to get him off me, if needed I will do so.

I do my best to try to offer help and useful advice to others, while helping them bring light to new concepts that they may not yet consider.

dburk is just a punk and he has proved that with his own words already... Enough Said.... Please leave me alone and go make yourself useful.

Do I need to contact you to ask about what I can and can not post in a public forum? Are you a forum God or something? No and um.. No...

If you are here to help then help someone, you are just here to post lies and act like a true jerk.

BRAIN DEAD PEOPLE LIKE DON MAKE ME NOT WANT TO HELP OTHERS, BUT THE PEOPLE THAT THANK ME, MAKE IT WORTH IT.

Kind Regards and Wishing you the Very Best,

Hi Brett,

The only reason I'm on this thread is because you invited me here from the other forum. By the way, thanks for cross posting the link so that members on both forums can see what you're up to.

I see that you are also going by the name of John Michals. Did you honestly think that I wouldn't know that it was you? Your threats don't scare me.

Go ahead and cross that line from petty name calling to criminal activity! Lets see where that leads. Go ahead, make my day!

[SEO_Expert]

HEY DUDE... LEAVE ME ALONE PLEASE..... you are a real creep and a huge lier!

Don Burk, you can NOT be trusted at all!

Don Burk = dburk

Here is an example of a forum moderator with over 22,000 posts, that thanked me for the way I was posting!

Important Parts of SEO

I bet he knows more than you Donny.....

[GUA]

I own a domain day 'domain.com'.

I look up on wordtracker, overture etc. 'domain' does not often get searched, but 'blue domain' does. Am i correct to think that I should thus use 'blue domain' as my keyword, and write content about that, as well as getting people to link back to me with the anchor text 'Blue domain'.

My blog is about finance, economics, domains, business etc. At the moment I am simplt linking to it with the anchor text 'gua.com'. Now that is good if someone searched for that term, but they will more than likely not, should I be getting people to link with terms like 'Finance blog'? Would having anchor text such as 'Domains, Business, Econonmics & Finance Blog' have positive effects for keywords such as 'Business Blog'??

If linking to individual posts, what should I anchor them with? 'Blog title @ GUA.com'? Simply 'Blog Title'?

Cheers

[dburk]

Hi GUA,

Your backlink anchor text is very influential in establishing the relevance of a keyword to your web page. Include you keyword in and or near the anchor text.

Mix it up a little so that it looks more natural. Include a few links with just the domain name, some with your primary keyword and a splattering of closely related keywords.

[SEO_Expert]

Originally Posted by IBN

Thanks for those straight up and right to the point answers, I really appreciated that. ( Now either somebody will pull your card in what you said and it will be time or your right on the mark.) j/k.

You are welcome, I try my best.

Originally Posted by IBN

1. You said: "I think it has too many Google Ads" is this just for personal tastes as to the aesthetics of the site or is their some type of google "penalty" for having too many ads? Penalized for having a MFA site for example....

This is a matter of personal preference, I think too many ads on a web page makes it look like it holds little or no value to the person that is trying to find what they want. People do not go to websites to click ads, people want to find what they are looking for. I am not sure if Google would penalize you for using their ads, I do not publish ads for Google, so I have not put much thought into it.

Originally Posted by IBN

2. You said: "images can be named and have alternative text assigned to them"
Does it matter as to how many words you use to "name" the image or can you go on and on for a paragraph or two?

Very often I use images to help me increase the relevancy of a web page for the keywords that I have defined in the <title> tag and meta tag keywords, as well as keywords that are in the textual contact of the website, including the optimized keyword phrases that I use when create my anchor text. If I wanted to optimized a photo of myself for the keyword phrase "SEO Expert" I would name my photo something like seo_expert.gif and add it to a web page that had information about me that I wanted to optimize. To further optimize the image for the keyword phrase SEO Expert, I would define ALT text to the image with this same keyword phrase.

I use many word keyword phrases and just single keywords when I name images, it just depend on what I am doing, and the approach that I feel it is best to take in order to receive the results that are desired.

Originally Posted by IBN

3. How much does or can a domain name play in SEO. A keyword domain, acronyms or something made up; Or does it all depend on what's going on in the back end.

From my experience the domain name does not play much of a role, any domain name can be optimized and made relevant for any keyword and/or keyword phrase.

Originally Posted by IBN

4. You said:

A. "Add additional optimized backlinks to other websites",
Does that mean hot linking the word 'seo expert' on other websites?

Back links are a very important part of keyword optimization. Adding back links to other websites with optimized keyword phrases helps to increase the relevancy of that keyword phrase and the keywords in the phrase, for the website that it is back linked to.

Originally Posted by IBN

B."add additional pages to the website with relevant contact"
I assume you meant content, What roll does the size of a site play in seo, is it simply a matter of more content to be spidered?

I was suggesting that you need more relevant content in your website. The best way to do that is to add more pages and try to target fewer keyword phrases on more web pages within your website.

Originally Posted by IBN

C. "and rewrite some of the content on the current page or pages."
What role does rewriting the content play? What about just adding more content as opposed to rewriting it?

Rewriting the contact is needed in order to add more optimized keyword phrases. This is only required and recommend if the text in your website is determined to lack relevancy.

Originally Posted by IBN

5. You said:
"the Meta tags could be much better"
expound on this, what's the best way to do meta tags? How should they be done. Also, I thought the spiders no longer paid to much attention to the meta tags anymore, no?

Thanks...

Meta Tags (Meta Tags added to a website many different ways)
You could ask 100 SEO Experts, web developers, and/or webmasters about what the best way to use meta tags is, and you may get 99 different answers. (I have found the way that meta tags are using is very import when they are used, but I have designed a few websites without meta tags, and I was surprised when my website was top 10 at Google, Yahoo, and MSN for the search phrase: cPanel Web Hosting (in one case) and the other site had the terms like the following term, including the following term: publish ads (in fact my site should still be ranked at least Top 10 in 2 out of the Big three search engines.)

When in question, a good way to see examples of how meta tags work, look at other websites that use similar keywords to your website! Just search Google, Yahoo, and MSN; Look at the first few websites as examples by viewing the source code of the homepage of the website and maybe a few other pages of the site.)

You are welcome, I hope this helps!

Very Kind Regards and Wishing you the Best,

[dburk]

Hi Brett,

Thanks for replying with that specific and useful information. That's just the kind of post I like to see from an expert. Good job!

[SEO_Expert]

Originally Posted by dburk

Hi Brett,

Thanks for replying with that specific and useful information. That's just the kind of post I like to see from an expert. Good job!

Thank you Don!

[steveto]

I am JUST beginning to do major research on SEO. Before I knew a little...had a decent idea of SEO and how it worked..but man...

I AM OVERWHELMED!!! It's like school all over again. There's this document and that website and this thing over here....that over there. My god!

[chimeara27]

thanks a lot guys i've learned a lot.