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So how can it rank number one on Google?

Thanks guys, I guess it's a case of keyword relevancy so I'll have to be happy with just the 8! Cheers,

Hi Bryce, Thanks for the input.  I was thinking that direction.  It nice to have some affirmation from time to time. Cheers!

Thanks for the reply. Anyone else have an opinion? Many thanks

You may want to "niche" down with your target keywords (go a little more long-tail). Neither "wordpress" or "magento development" rank you in the top 200 results, and "small business web design" you're on the 11th page. One option of getting more targeted, would be to target businesses in your area - "Small Business Web Design in Atlanta, GA" An XML sitemap is not a super critical point (especially for a small site), but certainly highly recommended. Yes, run a site search (site:treelifedesigns.com) in google, and pick out all the pages you don't want indexed.  Add them to your robot.txt file. I didn't look at off-page, but there's always link building and social sharing that can boost things a lot as well.

I'm still puzzled about what caused the page to rank better. One thing you probably thought of is to try and link from your blog page to your static one and see how this goes. Also you might consider the rel=author option when linking to your static page. At 3AM, I'm mostly writing down what pops up in my head. If your static pages goes up, then you at least will be sure that the blog page is performing better and not your static page being pushed down due to some external or internal issues.

Also check out these posts from Search Engine Roundtable. There have been reports from the past few months about Google not listening to what you write for your title tag. http://www.seroundtable.com/google-title-tag-13704.html http://www.seroundtable.com/google-title-selection-12989.html

Why update the main page's meta title monthly?  Is it to highlight special offers?  To stand out from the crowd?  To gather and improve CTR metrics? Regular visitors will find your meta title familiar and wont need it to change often.  New visitors wont know what the old title was anyway. Unless you can really track the success of meta description changes on a monthly basis I suggest you update it less frequently and concentrate on optimising other content.

Keep up the 4-times-per-week updates as long as you can continue to make the posts interesting and informative.  Be sure to tweet, bookmark and otherwise promote your blog posts - over time your shop will be found for all sorts of long tail search terms which should help to increase revenues. To make your blogging activities easier I suggest you plan a few regular themes for posts - i.e. if you can write monthly posts on 4 regular topics that works out to 1 per week so you only have to think of 3 creative posts per week instead of 4.  By regular posts I mean things that keep the same theme each month and which are easy to write - e.g. things like some interesting statistics about the shop, monthly summary of your products in the news, etc.

Forget this.... " What should I do to increase my PA & DA and to have top 10 positions by other keywords?" Do a lot more of this.... "Now I`m adding new pages with unique content."

Thanks guys. That answered my question!

Whatever you do don't memorize the content in your efforts to alter it in each variatio. Leave your desk/laptop and have a cup of coffee/tea. Write down the content in your own words. That doen't always work for me, but I am able to get good variations when it does. Another thing I rarely do, but find amusing is I getting a cup of coffee and going where my colleagues go for a smoke. While eavesdropping on their conversation, I try to replace the subject of their discussion with the subject the page I'm stuck on. It is often bizarre but I get a few good expressions and synonyms.

Great to hear! So sorry that you hadn't received a response to your question; I believe the question came through when we had the Q&A downtime last month. Thanks for updating us, it's always good to know how things turn out.

You're welcome! I'm glad that you were able to find the broken links.

It is quite good if you have a tight content niche and make all your links no follow.  This will get rid of many of the spammers and can really help with long tail searches.  Avinash is a huge fan of this on his blog and he even keeps a metric on the ratio of the words written by him vs words written by engaged audience members. But, you need to be the one driving the conversation and setting the agenda, if you don't you will just get spammers and junk on there.  Best of luck and feel free to PM me the blog, I'll check it out.