SEO - any advice?...

Hi there,

I recently started learning about SEO and implementing it on my companies site. I split my weekly SEO time between updating our blog, submitting in-bound links to directories, I add to book marking sites and participate in social networking sites. I try to comment in forums and other blogs relating to the area of tenders and tendering.

My issue is that, despite how consistent my work might be, the results do not seem to correlate. The site bounces around the google rankings sporadically, usually between the 3rd and 4th page, but sometimes higher.

Can anyone shed any light on why this might be happening and share any tips that you might have regarding SEO?

Thank you! Really appreciate any help you can offer.

Emma
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Re : SEO - any advice?

Well just keep it up for starters.

You should pick up seo for dummies and have a good read through it.

I am still just learning with that book also but I have been doing very well in a constant increase in customers since I started. I have been going up 20% in visitors every month since I started, and it is finaly starting to reach a good number of just over 1000 visitors a month.

If you are not able to achieve your keywords you might want to pick easier keywords that though less people search for it, there are less competing also.
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Re : SEO - any advice?

Also the links in your signature should have keywords built in and be active hyperlinks, yours currently is appearing as only text.

Try this in your signature

[a href=http://your-URL.com target='blank']Keyword Go Here[/a]


Hmmm I just looked you up on Alexia and you have a fairly high bounce percentage, of 70%

http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/europeantenders.com

I dont know what thats like for your industry, you might want to try and get more targeted clients, or work on the marketing to keep people on your site longer. Its a beautiful site I saw it, but is it directing them to a sign up for a newsletter or anything that helps you make deals?
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Re : SEO - any advice?

The web is so full of blogs, tips, and recomendations that the only thing you'll need it to really start reading and not all of the info is for techy people. A lot of the things can be done by beginners.
But having in mind that you already do so, maybe you'd better do some keyword research - I suggest using http://google.com/insights/search - place your keywords there, and look at the suggestions, compare them with the "search volumes" - the bigger it is, the better, and you should focus on these with more of it.
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Re : SEO - any advice?

Thank you for your advice - I think I will pick up SEO for Dummies as others have recommended this before and we are definitely going to be looking at the design and content of our site a little closer to see if there is anything that we can do to improve conversion!

Emma
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Re : SEO - any advice?

Whilst I know very little about this area, I have seen a few times that it can take six months or so for the results of what you are doing to kick in, so if you are patient hopefully all those directly links will start to build up in value over time

Re : SEO - any advice?

Hi,

If you want to improve your websites page rank and traffics then you must work themes base and unique content. then it will be more beneficial for your websites.

Thanks
Sushil Kumar

Re : SEO - any advice?

Hi,

I would recommend reading Aaron Wall's SEOBook blog. Sign up for his free course called 7 days to SEO Success.

Also, you might like to listen to our free SEO Audio course at the link belwo:

http://www.kksmarts.com/lp/seotraining.html

Thanks
Mike
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Re : SEO - any advice?

The reason you are bouncing around so much is that there are so many factors involved in ranking. E.g. Backlinks to your site, how strong your competition is, the age of your site, these all change constantly, and that is not to mention the changes which occur due to googles algorithmic changes.
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Re : SEO - any advice?

Thank you all for your advice.

I bought SEO for dummies, and was really impressed by how the content is handled in the book. There were lots of great tips about what NOT to do, which is possibly just as important.

I also had a look at the SEOBook blog, and signed up for the free course which has also been useful.

I've heard from a lot of people that it doesn't really matter what you do, or how consistently you do it, there's little chance of getting steady results for the reasons that Adv16 has helpfully pointed out.

I guess you just have to battle on!

Thanks again everyone.

Emma
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Create yourself a free Community

We all know that Forums are fun and useful. But the customer/vistor does expect something that is part of your website. I created a free Community at http://getsatisfaction.com/drachsi This is used and recommended by Microsoft and BT, so it should be of interest to everybody.

Yet another method to create information and links.
Drachsi
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Re : SEO - any advice?

The best way for small business or starts up has been to do SEO themselves as it can become quite expensive getting someone else to do it.

As explained in previous post there are so many elements to get your site ranking higly for relevant keywords and it takes time. But the basic prinicpal is Google wants to put the most important, and relevant sites first. So if your site doesn't generate alot of traffic and focuses on multplie areas then you have alot of work to do.

I would recommed using some free tools on the internet here are some you can use and the more you do the higher rankings you wil see.

(Too find what needs to be done)-Website Grader By simply inserting your website URL and some competing websites into the text fields provided on their website the software will generate a report that measures the marketing effectiveness of your website and whats needs to be done to get top rankings.

(To get free essentail optimizations for your website)Contextured offers a full search optimization package crawling your site for the optimization which will prodcue the best response.
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