Does the homepage of GetSatisfaction have very good on-page SEO? please give some critique

[limens]

Hi Mozzerz,

If you have done successful on-page SEO optimization in the past, this may be easy for you to analyze quickly. (especially if you have some tools to help you compare things like keywords vs code weight etc)

Does the homepage of www.GetSatisfaction.com constitute a well done on-page SEO?

Could you please critique the homepage's SEO value and say why it is very good or why it is OK, or why it is bad.

[RyanKent]

Does the homepage of www.GetSatisfaction.com constitute a well done on-page SEO?

This type of question is difficult to answer without knowing the client's requirements. What I can share is there are element of good SEO along with numerous opportunities for improvement.

A sample of opportunities to improve:

• Use the canonical tag. The following URL offers the same home page with a 200 header code which leads to duplicate content. This duplication should be eliminated and a canonical tag provided. http://getsatisfaction.com/index.html

• Reduce external links. The home page offers 66 internal links and 56 external links. The ratio of external links is too high. One issue is the site uses many subdomains which I would recommend merging in to the main site.

• There is no H1 tag

• The alt tags don't really help

• There is no clear message. At no point on the home page does the company share "Get Satisfaction provides Online Community Software which enables brand owners to engage in targeted conversations with their customers...." Instead there are vague descriptions such as "Give a voice to brand champions", "63k companies trust Get Satisfaction", etc.

A few things they do well:

• Clear Call-To-Action with a "Free Trial", "Contact Us" and "Tour" button prominently displayed

• clean URLs for main site

• social engagement offered

In summary, there are several things I would like to change, but with a PA of 93 and DA of 92, the site is clearly performing well.

[RobertFisher]

Ryan nails all of the basic issues, so I will just add something: When I went to the site, having never heard of GetSatisfaction.com, for whatever reason my eyes went to kiddiecare and Pampers logos first. I immediately thought it was some type of aggregator of children's items for moms. Then, I was drawn to Start A Community today. Soooo, what Ryan says is correct regarding "no clear message."

Given your client list and your DA and PA, you seem to have something to sell, but I don't think many people would know what that is from visiting the site. Ignoring the slider, the three buttons below are: Get Satisfaction for Facebook, The Age of the Customer, and Sometimes Size Does Matter. With everything on the page, you may be trying to give too many messages. I would clean it up to one or two coherent ideas and then use menu tabs and internal links to bring in the rest.

Hope this helps,