Originally posted by unclewilco
bid, can i open this thread again?
iam getting some good google hits for www.readersheds.co.uk, great UK ones anyway what can i go to improve them?
is adwords anygood, for me?
as all of the "products" i have are affliate anyway.
cheers
wilco
I really like your shed site unclewilco,
The main reason for this thread was simply to make a point that getting into Google is easy and free..you dont need to pay $65 to be listed.
Ranking is everyones "problem".. the absolute best thing you can do is first clean up the clutter.. all the insignificant ads all over the place, just do a little house cleaning on the site.. your "sheds" are starting to get lost amoungst your advertisements..
People smile when they understand that your site is REALLY about "sheds" .. how people need and love those sheds.. they take on personalities.
I hope you really get back to that part of it.. you'll pick up a lot more traffic simply from word of mouth.
I would find a couple more keywords that you would like to be found for
68154 storage shed
35781 shed
11915 garden shed
9429 shed plan
4699 shed plan free
4634 tuff shed
4608 build a shed
4205 building a shed
3999 storage shed plan
3786 shed kit
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Consider this..google takes into account your domain, your title tag, your content... (when comparing to actaul search term)
how many of the above keywords I listed above are you being found on? little /none ?
I would fix your title tag
"Readersheds.co.uk - where you share your shed - site for sheddies on the web - shedtalk, shedshop, shedfacts"
For one thing it is too long.. shorten it up and to something that first of all peple are searching for :
Title= Storage Sheds , Sheds and shed kits
Then make sure you also use those 3 "keywords/phrases" also in your content/ make a few paragraphs near the top.. close to where the bot first starts "reading" ... you want your customers as well as the bots to understand before anything ewlse..before the cool jokes, before the advertisements before the pictures. your site is about Storage Sheds.. after that is established then you can give the site it's "personality"
So change your tags and content to represnt what people,are actually searching for ..use a keyword density tool similiar to this..
http://www.keyworddensity.com/
I'm not going to go into to much detail, but the general idea is that for the keywords you want to be found on should represent arond 15% or so.. if you keyword stuff..you'll be penalized/.. if you dont include enough keywords (density wise) then you wont rank as well.
Doing this alone will move you up in ranking.. how high ? depends on your competition.. for "storgage sheds" their are only 143,00 pages of competition.. I think you can rank on first page fairly easy.. I see the first 3 sites have arond 35 back links.... but by the time you get to the bottom of the first page thoise sites only have a few backlinks..
So that would be your next step.. find 5 other sites that will link to you in addition to cleaning up your title tag , fixing your text content with the proper keywords and density of those keywords.
Then add a few links..
in the next update after you finish that you will be listed on the front page under the search keyword "storage sheds"
Good Luck..
