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OK. So I have a site with:
- H1 tag and correct clean code on homepage
- good descriptive paragraph on the homepage
- descriptive title
- Meta name, description and keywords to homepage
- listed on Google maps
- loaded xml sitemap
- loaded Google analytics
- submitted to Google
Anything else I am missing to help with ranking and searchability?
- H1 tag and correct clean code on homepage
- good descriptive paragraph on the homepage
- descriptive title
- Meta name, description and keywords to homepage
- listed on Google maps
- loaded xml sitemap
- loaded Google analytics
- submitted to Google
Anything else I am missing to help with ranking and searchability?
Thanks for that link SheldonB, I've been looking for an SEO checker for awhile.
Good Descriptive paragraph is probably not enough. Google needs to index your page for exactly what it is about. if you don't offer up enough information your site will be put behind sites that do include that information.
Think about what your site is about - are all the buzzwords there?
If you were building a site about planting trees. The words bark,root,branches, dirt, leaves etc. would all be there.Google uses your sites text to analyze what it is about.
To test your sites relevance just get an Adsense account. Place an ad on your site and see what comes up. If your site is selling moving boxes and back pain ads come up then Google has no idea what your sites about.
Think about what your site is about - are all the buzzwords there?
If you were building a site about planting trees. The words bark,root,branches, dirt, leaves etc. would all be there.Google uses your sites text to analyze what it is about.
To test your sites relevance just get an Adsense account. Place an ad on your site and see what comes up. If your site is selling moving boxes and back pain ads come up then Google has no idea what your sites about.
?? doesn't ad-sense cater to the user not the site
you could use adwords to help you generate keywords - but judging your seo based on the ads the pop up probably not the best idea
you could use adwords to help you generate keywords - but judging your seo based on the ads the pop up probably not the best idea
You use the adsense to put a temporary ad on your page to see what google thinks your site is about. Once you hone it down - take the ad off. This is a SEO secret that you probably haven't heard about before. I use this method with any new SEO projects.
Google adsense code works just like it's search engine. Google supplies every ad with the same code ( for your account ) It makes no difference what site you put it on, Google serves up the right kind of ad. I figured out a while ago that no matter what site I put the ad code on Google seemed to know what ad to place.
Made me think that the algorithm used to serve the ad is probably the same one that it uses when someone types in a search. So if someone types "Moving boxes" Google will run a search and serve up what pages it thinks is related to Moving Boxes.
What it does is it analyzes your text on your page and figures out what it's about. So once you start getting the correct kind of ads you at least know that your keywords are working for
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i.e. if your site is about "Moving Boxes" you will see ads for Moving companies, Moving supply companies, Realtors, etc. If you see ads about gym equipment or sporting goods stores etc. Google is not getting the information it needs to index you properly. i.e. it thinks your site is related to boxing.
As mentioned AdWords is a good indicator as to what keywords are expensive and help you find related words that you may have missed.
I have told clients and copywriters that I have worked with that
Google has millions of documents to analyze to figure out what should be in your web copy. It's the words that are missing that just as important.
In my scenario above - if your site is about Moving
boxes and you don't use the words -
wardrobe, corrugated, cardboard, width, height etc. and millions of other sites did, then
Google may think that you may not be an authority on the subject or that page is not as important as others.
Google adsense code works just like it's search engine. Google supplies every ad with the same code ( for your account ) It makes no difference what site you put it on, Google serves up the right kind of ad. I figured out a while ago that no matter what site I put the ad code on Google seemed to know what ad to place.
Made me think that the algorithm used to serve the ad is probably the same one that it uses when someone types in a search. So if someone types "Moving boxes" Google will run a search and serve up what pages it thinks is related to Moving Boxes.
What it does is it analyzes your text on your page and figures out what it's about. So once you start getting the correct kind of ads you at least know that your keywords are working for
i.e. if your site is about "Moving Boxes" you will see ads for Moving companies, Moving supply companies, Realtors, etc. If you see ads about gym equipment or sporting goods stores etc. Google is not getting the information it needs to index you properly. i.e. it thinks your site is related to boxing.
As mentioned AdWords is a good indicator as to what keywords are expensive and help you find related words that you may have missed.
I have told clients and copywriters that I have worked with that
Google has millions of documents to analyze to figure out what should be in your web copy. It's the words that are missing that just as important.
In my scenario above - if your site is about Moving
boxes and you don't use the words -
wardrobe, corrugated, cardboard, width, height etc. and millions of other sites did, then
Google may think that you may not be an authority on the subject or that page is not as important as others.
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