Looking for a little insight on seo

Hello,

I have been trying to optimise and tweak my website for the past 12
months. I have read a lot about general search engine optimisation
tactics, however I still have few questions, which I would just like to
ask (not in any particular order).

a) I noticed that I search google for "mydomain.com" (without the quotes
of course) I come up with some 7,000 results (excluding my own pages).
Most of the sites actually have a correct link (with www.) to my site –
very few omit the "www." but still have a working link. However if I
search google for link:www.mydomain.com I receive 0 results. Why could
that be?

b) When it comes to key/searchwords I have one major problem. I would
like a single word to be my "main keyword" under which I should be
found. However I have noticed that I do not even get listed in the
search results for this word, even though that keyword has a density of
slightly over 10% on the start page (no, I do not use a doorway page,
actual content ) of my site, when checking for a one word per phrase
density. A competitor of mine has a similar site structure and similar
keyword density and is the first result for that same keyword in google,
and I do not even get listed. On the other hand when it comes to two or
three word phrases I am always number one. The only difference between
me and my competitor, that I can see, is that he has the keyword in his
domain name (www.abc-keyword.com). I have it as a directory in my URL
(www.mydomain.com/keyword/). However I would be happy to be under the
top ten, but sadly enough the top ten are polluted by websites with
close to zero content, just a bunch of money-making adwords-spam-pages.
I would also gladly forfeit all my two and three word phrases for a top
ten position in the one word phrase-department. I spend about $2,500
on adwords for that certain keyword a month and it would be great to be
listed "completely normally". Is there a special tactic to use if you
are looking for a one-word keyword coverage? Does anyone know of a
similar problem? (BTW: my competitor only has 51 sites that link to him!
Google: why the injustice?)

c) I keep on reading that one should give google up to 10 weeks before
changes to ones website will start to take effect on google. It has only
been approximately a week, but I have noticed that google has respidered
my website in the meantime. When I look for my entry I also notice a new
(only one week old) more optimised text. However nothing has changed
regarding my positioning. Do I still need to wait? Or do the "10 weeks"
refer to the respidering?

Before I forget to mention it: I am not using frames nore a doorway
page, I use title-, meta-, h1-, alt-, etc. Tags/Attributes extensively.
Nothing seems to help. My current page rank is 5 (just recently jumped
from a long period at 4). I also wrote google a while back to ask why
this could be and to ask if I per chance had been sandboxed or something
similar. The google representative said that everything was fine with my
domain/entry, it could/would just be a optimisation matter.

Thanks and hoping for some insight.
Casper

You can have a look here for good SEO tips:-
http://sandy007smarty.seo.iitm.ac.in...p-10-seo-tips/

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Casper Feldmann wrote:

Hello,

I have been trying to optimise and tweak my website for the past 12
months. I have read a lot about general search engine optimisation
tactics, however I still have few questions, which I would just like to
ask (not in any particular order).

a) I noticed that I search google for "mydomain.com" (without the quotes
of course) I come up with some 7,000 results (excluding my own pages).
Most of the sites actually have a correct link (with www.) to my site -
very few omit the "www." but still have a working link. However if I
search google for link:www.mydomain.com I receive 0 results. Why could
that be?

b) When it comes to key/searchwords I have one major problem. I would
like a single word to be my "main keyword" under which I should be
found. However I have noticed that I do not even get listed in the
search results for this word, even though that keyword has a density of
slightly over 10% on the start page (no, I do not use a doorway page,
actual content ) of my site, when checking for a one word per phrase
density. A competitor of mine has a similar site structure and similar
keyword density and is the first result for that same keyword in google,
and I do not even get listed. On the other hand when it comes to two or
three word phrases I am always number one. The only difference between
me and my competitor, that I can see, is that he has the keyword in his
domain name (www.abc-keyword.com). I have it as a directory in my URL
(www.mydomain.com/keyword/). However I would be happy to be under the
top ten, but sadly enough the top ten are polluted by websites with
close to zero content, just a bunch of money-making adwords-spam-pages.
I would also gladly forfeit all my two and three word phrases for a top
ten position in the one word phrase-department. I spend about $2,500
on adwords for that certain keyword a month and it would be great to be
listed "completely normally". Is there a special tactic to use if you
are looking for a one-word keyword coverage? Does anyone know of a
similar problem? (BTW: my competitor only has 51 sites that link to him!
Google: why the injustice?)

c) I keep on reading that one should give google up to 10 weeks before
changes to ones website will start to take effect on google. It has only
been approximately a week, but I have noticed that google has respidered
my website in the meantime. When I look for my entry I also notice a new
(only one week old) more optimised text. However nothing has changed
regarding my positioning. Do I still need to wait? Or do the "10 weeks"
refer to the respidering?

Before I forget to mention it: I am not using frames nore a doorway
page, I use title-, meta-, h1-, alt-, etc. Tags/Attributes extensively.
Nothing seems to help. My current page rank is 5 (just recently jumped
from a long period at 4). I also wrote google a while back to ask why
this could be and to ask if I per chance had been sandboxed or something
similar. The google representative said that everything was fine with my
domain/entry, it could/would just be a optimisation matter.

Thanks and hoping for some insight.
Casper

On 2 Oct 2006 18:25:32 -0700, "Turbo" <sandeep.iiit (AT) gmail (DOT) com> wrote:

You can have a look here for good SEO tips:-
http://sandy007smarty.seo.iitm.ac.in...p-10-seo-tips/

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http://sandy007smarty.seo.iitm.ac.in/

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On Mon, 02 Oct 2006 22:49:17 GMT, Casper Feldmann
<casper.feldmann (AT) googlemail (DOT) com> wrote:

Hello,

I have been trying to optimise and tweak my website for the past 12
months. I have read a lot about general search engine optimisation
tactics, however I still have few questions, which I would just like to
ask (not in any particular order).

a) I noticed that I search google for "mydomain.com" (without the quotes
of course) I come up with some 7,000 results (excluding my own pages).
Most of the sites actually have a correct link (with www.) to my site –
very few omit the "www." but still have a working link. However if I
search google for link:www.mydomain.com I receive 0 results. Why could
that be?

Dunno. It doesn't work properly anyway. The link: thing, which is
called an operator. What's your url?

b) When it comes to key/searchwords I have one major problem. I would
like a single word to be my "main keyword" under which I should be
found. However I have noticed that I do not even get listed in the
search results for this word, even though that keyword has a density of
slightly over 10% on the start page (no, I do not use a doorway page,
actual content ) of my site, when checking for a one word per phrase
density. A competitor of mine has a similar site structure and similar
keyword density and is the first result for that same keyword in google,
and I do not even get listed. On the other hand when it comes to two or
three word phrases I am always number one. The only difference between
me and my competitor, that I can see, is that he has the keyword in his
domain name (www.abc-keyword.com). I have it as a directory in my URL
(www.mydomain.com/keyword/). However I would be happy to be under the
top ten, but sadly enough the top ten are polluted by websites with
close to zero content, just a bunch of money-making adwords-spam-pages.
I would also gladly forfeit all my two and three word phrases for a top
ten position in the one word phrase-department. I spend about $2,500
on adwords for that certain keyword a month and it would be great to be
listed "completely normally". Is there a special tactic to use if you
are looking for a one-word keyword coverage? Does anyone know of a
similar problem? (BTW: my competitor only has 51 sites that link to him!
Google: why the injustice?)

Those 51 sites have the keyword in the anchor text of the links to
him. You have zilch like that. Or thereabouts. So, get more and you'll
start to compete.

c) I keep on reading that one should give google up to 10 weeks before
changes to ones website will start to take effect on google. It has only
been approximately a week, but I have noticed that google has respidered
my website in the meantime. When I look for my entry I also notice a new
(only one week old) more optimised text. However nothing has changed
regarding my positioning. Do I still need to wait? Or do the "10 weeks"
refer to the respidering?

Could be 10 weeks, could be 10 days, could be 10 minutes. Just because
you get spidered in ten doesn't mean you'll be re-indexed in eleven.
Also, maybe everyone else in your niche did some seo too so you all
stayed the same relative to each other. Unlikely, of course, but I
mention it just to remind you that it isn't quite as cut and dried as
people would like it to be.

Before I forget to mention it: I am not using frames nore a doorway
page, I use title-, meta-, h1-, alt-, etc. Tags/Attributes extensively.
Nothing seems to help. My current page rank is 5 (just recently jumped
from a long period at 4). I also wrote google a while back to ask why
this could be and to ask if I per chance had been sandboxed or something
similar. The google representative said that everything was fine with my
domain/entry, it could/would just be a optimisation matter.

At least they wrote.

Get more links with your key phrase in the anchor text.

BB
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http://www.here-be-posters.co.uk/art-prints-sitemap.htm
http://www.here-be-posters.co.uk/lithographs.htm

Casper Feldmann wrote:

Hello,

I have been trying to optimise and tweak my website for the past 12
months. I have read a lot about general search engine optimisation
tactics, however I still have few questions, which I would just like to
ask (not in any particular order).

a) I noticed that I search google for "mydomain.com" (without the quotes
of course) I come up with some 7,000 results (excluding my own pages).
Most of the sites actually have a correct link (with www.) to my site -
very few omit the "www." but still have a working link. However if I
search google for link:www.mydomain.com I receive 0 results. Why could
that be?

b) When it comes to key/searchwords I have one major problem. I would
like a single word to be my "main keyword" under which I should be
found. However I have noticed that I do not even get listed in the
search results for this word, even though that keyword has a density of
slightly over 10% on the start page (no, I do not use a doorway page,
actual content ) of my site, when checking for a one word per phrase
density. A competitor of mine has a similar site structure and similar
keyword density and is the first result for that same keyword in google,
and I do not even get listed. On the other hand when it comes to two or
three word phrases I am always number one. The only difference between
me and my competitor, that I can see, is that he has the keyword in his
domain name (www.abc-keyword.com). I have it as a directory in my URL
(www.mydomain.com/keyword/). However I would be happy to be under the
top ten, but sadly enough the top ten are polluted by websites with
close to zero content, just a bunch of money-making adwords-spam-pages.
I would also gladly forfeit all my two and three word phrases for a top
ten position in the one word phrase-department. I spend about $2,500
on adwords for that certain keyword a month and it would be great to be
listed "completely normally". Is there a special tactic to use if you
are looking for a one-word keyword coverage? Does anyone know of a
similar problem? (BTW: my competitor only has 51 sites that link to him!
Google: why the injustice?)

c) I keep on reading that one should give google up to 10 weeks before
changes to ones website will start to take effect on google. It has only
been approximately a week, but I have noticed that google has respidered
my website in the meantime. When I look for my entry I also notice a new
(only one week old) more optimised text. However nothing has changed
regarding my positioning. Do I still need to wait? Or do the "10 weeks"
refer to the respidering?

Before I forget to mention it: I am not using frames nore a doorway
page, I use title-, meta-, h1-, alt-, etc. Tags/Attributes extensively.
Nothing seems to help. My current page rank is 5 (just recently jumped
from a long period at 4). I also wrote google a while back to ask why
this could be and to ask if I per chance had been sandboxed or something
similar. The google representative said that everything was fine with my
domain/entry, it could/would just be a optimisation matter.

Thanks and hoping for some insight.
Casper

Casper Feldmann

Please give your site URL and the keywords you optimize. After checking
your site we can say anything because there are lot of parameters
followed by search engines may be you missed one of these which affect
your site's ranking but before checking your site I don't like to
comment anything.

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