SEO recommendations

Domo · 10 May 2012 at 08:06

Hi,
Wasn't sure where to add this post, and this seemed most appropriate!
We're getting terrible results via Google, and any other search engine for that matter and subsequently decidede to opt for SEO.

I've contacted someone at http://www.total-seo.co.uk/, and submitted a free web site review.

Thought it might be worth checking who some of you lot use

uniQ · 10 May 2012 at 08:19

I do my own and build all my sites organically. Basic 'SEO' is just following best practices.

That site honestly looks like junk. Talk about keyword stuffing. If that's their idea of SEO I wouldn't touch them with a barge pole. IMHO You would be better of looking at getting some decent SEM.

mp3duck · 10 May 2012 at 08:59

uniQ said:
I do my own and build all my sites organically. Basic 'SEO' is just following best practices..

+1 on this.

GravyMonster · 10 May 2012 at 09:18

I wouldn't use the company in the OPs link on principle of that site being horrendous.

Good SEO isn't hard to achieve. Pick the 3 or 4 search terms you want to achieve a good ranking for, eg. 'landscape gardener surrey' and then write good content for your website with those words placed in it quite often, but not to the detriment of human readability.

It really is that simple.

thenewoc · 10 May 2012 at 09:26

Use your robots file to exclude crawl from general pages such as t&c's, privacy, perhaps contact too etc so your keywords are indexed from your main content pages.

GravyMonster · 10 May 2012 at 11:03

Don't exclude contact details from Google - that's what people most commonly look for on your site!

The only thing you should exclude is your javascript, css and image folders, plus any folders with code in, assuming you're using some method of url rerouting.

AJK · 10 May 2012 at 13:47

Spunkey said:
The only thing you should exclude is your javascript, css and image folders, plus any folders with code in, assuming you're using some method of url rerouting.

Why exclude script and styles? Google etc. know what script and styles are and won't index them as content. And images definitely shouldn't be blocked... unless you mean structural ones (buttons, backgrounds, etc.) and even then I'd just let Google sort it out.

GravyMonster · 10 May 2012 at 13:49

Don't forget Google aren't the only search engine, and some spiders will index everything they find. And I did mean strucutral images - I should have been more specific.

joemc · 11 May 2012 at 10:40

I'd consider someone local Domo. That way you don't have to pay extortionate amounts everyone you want to go see them, or want them to come see you. They'll also have a good understanding of the local area and would be much easier for them to do research!

As someone has already said, if you do decide to do it yourself, look at what competitors are aiming for on their website and see if you can improve on the words they are using.

Edward01 · 11 May 2012 at 10:49

What's the website Domo, can we take a look??

As said, on page SEO is all about building the site properly in the first place and providing good content. There's not really a trick or short cut to it.