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Posted by Jerry Stuckle on 03/17/07 21:17
Roman wrote:
> Paul Furman wrote:
>> Roman wrote:
>>
>>> I received a marketing call from a guy first showing me my website and
>>> then some other website and ranking of that other website.
>>>
>>> My questions is it worth paying to SEO corporation a $1200 - $3000 setup
>>> fee and then $150 monthly to get your website search optimized ?
>>>
>>> I used the domaintools.com and it seems like my website had higher SEO
>>> rating and tag relevance than the example site he was showing me. I did
>>> not pay attention to search engine ranking so far but I have my doubts
>>> if this is really something I need to contract professionals for.
>> Just try searching for likely keywords to see how you rank.
>> http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=prototype+pcb
>> I didn't see your site in the first 7 pages of that search so if that's
>> an important product, yes you should optimise things. I don't know about
>> a monthly service but you want to have the right structure for your
>> pages to rank well.
>
> It's actually an electronic component store and proto PCB is just one of
> the products.
>
>> If you can't even find things using this format there is something
>> seriously wrong:
>> <http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=prototype+pcb++site%3adipmicro.com>
>>
>>
>
> Google visits us quite often and I think it has indexed all of our
> products. I was on an online marketing presentation and they gave me
> some ideas about SEO, that's why the site has meta info in the header.
> The guy who called me said I had 90 characters in the title, 200
> characters in description and 255 characters/15 keyword phrases in the
> keyword tag. I am barely using portion of that.
>
> Another thing they said was that if you are Google customer, they rank
> you better, even if you just put Google Analytics on the site.
>
>> One thing I found that really helps is to change the title of the page
>> to include the actual product or search term, that's what puts things on
>> the top of google searches.
>
> The SEO sales guy said that also, I will do that.
>
>> And I think urls with "?act=" and such tend to be shunned by search
>> engines. Look at how php.net works, you just type www.php.net/echo and
>> it finds the documentation for that command, keeping the main subject
>> 'echo' in the url and putting it in the title bar too so it's absolutely
>> clear that the page is 100 percent relevant. I need to rebuild one of my
>> sites like this. Google 'search engine friendly url'.
>
> This is a good idea, I will look into that also.
>
>> Another thing I did on one of my sites was I noticed the google results
>> included lots of long redundant lists of our full inventory which
>> basically produced cluttered irrelevant landing pages for people so I
>> set <meta name='googlebot' content='noarchive, noindex'> for those pages
>> then the bots only archive the specific focused destination pages. This
>> improved our ranking tremendously and made the results spot on relevant.
>
> Well, so it seems that there is some improvements to be made by myself
> for free before I contract someone to go any further with optimizing.
>
> Thanks a lot for this reply.
>
> Roman
And your PHP question is???
As I told you before - it's off topic for this group. You've had a
couple of suggestions where to go for good answers to your questions.
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