Website help!

barginboyrob

Surely you need to pay for SEO, sometimes you don't have all day to try learn and find links to post...

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barginboyrob wrote: »

Surely you need to pay for SEO, sometimes you don't have all day to try learn and find links to post...

Onpage SEO is worth learning and you do not need to pay an SEO expert for, and the learning is good for when you update and add pages to your site. If paying for anything I'd only pay for link building campaigns. There are so many cowboys in the SEO field that you could find yourself out of pocket and no real results.

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barginboyrob wrote: »

Surely you need to pay for SEO, sometimes you don't have all day to try learn and find links to post...

Just spotted your sig after posting the above.. well, you would say that then..

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barginboyrob wrote: »

Surely you need to pay for SEO, sometimes you don't have all day to try learn and find links to post...

The "I love SEO" spam has miraculously disappeared from the signiture

Ste_C

It helps if you post regular content and if your site is updated at least once a week. Post things such as short articles about your company and your products and make sure you use relevant words and terms that people might search for.

The google 'spider' will find these pages when its out looking anyway - there is no need to submit your site to google, they get thousands of sites submitted every day and by the time they add it into their system manually their automated system will have found it anyway.

You'll lose 'points' if you have a static website which never has any fresh content for the search engines to look for.

You should also make sure your site has the right sort of meta data which isn't displayed on each page as we see it but can be picked up by search engines.

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Ste_C wrote: »

It helps if you post regular content and if your site is updated at least once a week. Post things such as short articles about your company and your products and make sure you use relevant words and terms that people might search for.

The google 'spider' will find these pages when its out looking anyway - there is no need to submit your site to google, they get thousands of sites submitted every day and by the time they add it into their system manually their automated system will have found it anyway.

You'll lose 'points' if you have a static website which never has any fresh content for the search engines to look for.

You should also make sure your site has the right sort of meta data which isn't displayed on each page as we see it but can be picked up by search engines.

Just to add to the good advice above, ensure your content is written by yourself. The easiest thing in the World to do is go somewhere like ezine articles (google it) and pick up articles. This is ok in moderation, but there is such thing as duplicate content penalties in google. Writing your own avoids this problem.. the thing is though it is sometimes difficult to be creative and write interesting information for people to read and spiders to spider.

Worth the effort though

Kez1983

Thanks. Ive taken most of the advice here, so we will see if the site starts to get some visitors now!