SEO Question

[private]

What exactly is a footer code? They give Google analytics as an example, but the box is huge. What am I spozed to put in there? Also. any tips for Meta keywording? Or anything to get more people to get to my page.

As of right now I have one client who has found me via the web and she went down a LONG list to find me, I want to get to the top of the list...

[dcclark]

Who is "they"? What are they talking about when speaking of a footer code? It sounds like you may mean the code which Google Analytics has you add to your web pages, at the end of the HTML (the "footer"), so that Analytics can, well, analyze who has come to your site, from where, etc.

The best way to get on google is to be useful. Have useful information, good descriptions and titles on your photos, use ALT tags on your images, and google will pick you up. It doesn't happen overnight! Also, having other people link to you is useful.

[private]

ALT tags? What is that? They is Weebly, I did just add the html code in the footer, hope I did it right Yeah, I know it takes a while...but I want to do as much as I can to speed up the process.

[OsmosisStudios]

Alt codes are metadata added to an img tag. If you hover over an image, it appears in a box.

You can hard code this: its far easier if you have a programming processor (Dreamweaver) to do it for you

[Free]

G'day Mate,

SEO especially Google is a sum of all the parts rather than one or 2 specific techniques. Although I assume by footer code, you mean putting links to pages within your own site to allow spiders that find one page to crawl the rest of your site. By using relevant key words in the link text can help (slightly) search engine placement.

Originally Posted by private

ALT tags? What is that? They is Weebly, I did just add the html code in the footer, hope I did it right Yeah, I know it takes a while...but I want to do as much as I can to speed up the process.

Please don't take this the wrong way, but if you aren't familiar with alt tags then you've got a long way to go before you need to even think about advanced SEO techniques.

I always advise people that the FIRST thing you need to get good search placement is have a well coded website. I've done nothing but rebuild a website to use valid, standards compliant xhtml and css to take it from page 5 or 6 on Google (for Accomodation and the region the motel is) to being in the top 5 results on the first page of Google!!! The content was already optimised and the owner was already listed on heaps of online directorys, but was just not placing well as there were hundreds upon hundreds of lines of dodgey tables and ********** in the code (as written by an old version of Dreamweaver).

The second most important part (most people say the first though) is the content on your site. How and where you've incorporated keywords and keyphrases as well how much content you have and what other sites are linking to it.

If you can give us a link to your site and your proposed keyword/keyphrase list I can give you a brief overview of what will help increase you placement.

Hope something in there helps.
Free

[private]

Well, I will say that I have not been in the real work force for some time now...So alot of this is like learning a new language. My website is www.pixiememories.com.

Any and all comments are welcome. I know most people don't like music but I am trying to get that on there, just ned to figure out how to make it loop...

Any feedback would be great. My skin is thick.

[Free]

Hi, I had a quick look and the general code seems alright. I noticed you used an online site builder, so you probably don't have too much say over the code anyway? Also I noticed your first blog post was about 2 months old. It can take up to 6 months to achieve decent results.

But as to improving the results...

I think the very first thing you need to do is clearly define some relevant search terms. This is probably the hardest bit to get right and definitely the most important. You can use the SEO Book tool for an idea on what is getting searched for, the trick is not to set your sights too high. For example, you obviously want to get found as a photographer, the problem there is so does everyone else and I imagine it is a very competitive search. Work out how you can narrow it done a little. Something like "Family photography in Virginia" and "Virginian photographer". You can keep track of what is working using Google Analytics keyword stats

Once you have 3 or 4 of key phrases that you think people will actually search for, you need to incorporate them into your website...

Firstly lose all the spaces in your site title (the second part of your page titles in the browser window) and put your main key phrase in there. This is the most highest valued location for keywords, I know you want to put your business name in there, but you need to put your keywords there! Using the above example I would do something like "Pixel Memories - Family photography in Virginia". Then every page in your site has that in the title tag.

Secondly mixes of your key phrases in every page title (or what ever your CMS calls it), for example: "Your Investment" page...

"Your Investment" does nothing for search engines. If you want to REALLY push SEO you'd do something like "Virginian Photography Package Prices" or something as overt. I'd be more inclined to use "Photography Package Prices" and use Virginian in the text a few times. The same with the heading "Your Pixie Investment", cute to you, but useless to search engines.

Basically you want to put the search terms in the most weighted sections of the website. I try to load:

• Site title
• Page title
• Headings (using H1-H3 tags)
• Link text
• Bolded text (using strong tags)
• And also in body copy itself

If you just try to think "can I use a key phrase here" when ever you write something you'll see a vast improvement in no time.

Also use your blog for SEO...

EVERY blog post should have a key phrase in it's title and also in the text, where possible include use heading tags rather than bolding, again your investment page - Option 1, option 2 etc in bolded text...

Replace with photo package 1 and use heading tags and you'll be higher in no time.

One last thing...

Loose the big "click here" image on the front page.

Google thinks your front page is the most important in your site, so just having one image on the front page doesn't achieve anything. It also doesn't help users. Summarise your about, investment, what to expect and rave pages with the above idea and you really will jump ahead. I put this last as you need to know the info above first, but this and the using blog in conjunction with using the best practices on all pages really is important.

I hope I've explained that all well enough, it's probably a bit round about, I can try to explain anything a bit better if you need it.

Again, hope that helps
Free

[private]

Free, TY, I printed your suggestions, and I will work on it soon! TY for the feedback. Whatever happened to the yellow pages? LMAO!