It’s time for another SEO Advice post! Last week, I offered free SEO advice to AtLargeNutrition. I’m going to continue my SEO Advice series today by helping out another YoungEntrepreneur.com blog reader, Timothy Marshall from Duzo Design.
Timothy Marshall - http://www.duzodesign.com/
Hi there!
I would love for you to give me advice, tips etc on my website’s SEO performance. The site http://www.duzodesign.com. It is for my company, Duzo Design, LLC. It’s a web design company based in Connecticut.
Thanks,
Timothy Marshall
Duzo Design, LLC
My Recommendations
1) Title Tags
The title is one of the most important elements in your onsite SEO. It’s located above where it says http://www.duzodesign.com. Right now your homepage title tag reads Duzo Design, LLC > Innovative Web Design. You already rank at the top of Google for Duzo Design so I would take it out and focus in on Innovative Web Design. You should also talk about Innovative Web Design on your home page – right now you only mention it in a picture. Take the text out of the picture and create content around the key phrase “Innovative web design”.
2) Create More Pages With Text
If you want to rank for your website you should have at least 300 words of content on each page. Right now none of your pages meet this criteria. You should look at how you can increase the word count on your pages as well as add new pages in. For example, you will want to create a page called Innovative-Web-Design.html which is an article that is 300-500 words that talks about how you create innovative web designs. This will then help you rank for that key phrase. Rinse and repeat for the various terms you are trying to rank for.
3) Get More Links
Google’s ranking system is based to a large degree on the incoming links that you have. The more high quality links your site has, the better you will rank. Right now you have very few links and your Google Page Rank is 1 out of 10. Start reaching out to people to build those links (this blog post is a good start) – the more links you can build the better your chances will be of ranking for your keywords!
Good luck Timothy!
Readers, what do you think about Timothy’s website?
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I have been working hard on trying to build links lately, but the results haven’t been great. Any advice?
Be sure to submit the site to Google Webmaster Tools that way you can monitor your progress.
best,
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Chris O.
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There are a number of steps I always follow when optimizing a site for SEO (note these are just the high points, there are others that I don’t mention here, but these WILL take you a long way):
1) If it’s a new site, I will include the keywords in a non hyphenated domain name.
2) If possible, I will rename the URL to each money page to include the main keyword for that page.
3) Set up Google Analytics for the site and ensure the tracking script is added to every page (if not already done).
4) Go through the “money” pages and make sure that the title, meta descriptions and meta keywords tags are unique and optimized for the keywords on the page.
5) Go through the non-money pages (i.e. pages you don’t care about from an SEO perspective) and ensure the title and meta description tags are not duplicates of any of the money page tags.
6) I also nofollow any links to overhead pages from all of the pages on the site with the exception of the home page. I leave the home page links as follow links, since I want the SEs to index all pages on the site and having privacy, contact, disclaimer, etc overhead pages add to Google’s view of the “trust” for the site. On all other pages I want only the link to the home page to be a follow link, so I can build up the page rank of the home page.
7) I then optimize each pages content for it’s main keywords, modifiers and related terms.
cheers,
Jim
Wow, thanks! Sorry for the late comment, I was on vacation with little PC interaction.
These tips will come in very handy. Thank you again!
Michael Schrader – Try using http://www.easysubmits.com. It semi-automates the process of submitting your site to directories.
Quick point on the last comment, submitting your site to any of the major search engines is a waste of time.
The quickest way to get indexed is to get an inbound link from a PR3+ page with anchor text relevant to your page. This will not only get you indexed quickly, it will help your site move up the rankings as well.
Cheers,
Jim