Ahead in all metrics, and not even close

[oznappies]

You site looks great, quite clean and fitting the colour and mood for a dj. There are a couple of things though I notice as a web developer:

1. Your youtube links are not embeded (from a facebook feed), so someone clicking on them leaves your site - you should have these embeded so they can be played on your page with out leaving it and use links http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eq6gFOXeOFk&rel=0 for the embeded videos. The rel=0 means when someone plays your video they will not see related videos when it ends. Those related videos could be from competitors.

2. Some of you anchor text text start 'Click here ...' that is really not strong key word use unless you are trying to rank for the keyword 'click here'. If you look at Google adwords you can find other keywords that Google thinks are a close match for the one you are targeting and then see how many people use that keyword. These would be more useful than the click here keywords now.

3. You are getting 2 404 errors - loader-small.gif and like.gif and most images do not have preset width and heights which means the page continually adjusts size as images are loaded on the first visit.

4. You may also want to consider HTML5 sectional markup to tell Google where the important content (section,article) is on the page and what is just navigation (nav) or sidebar (aside) content. Not sure if Google gives weight to this yet, but they will at some point.

Hope that help with the usability side of the site.

[ShaMenz]

hmmm...all good comments, but have you thought about the possibility that you may have a problem with keyword stuffing?

I count 58 instances of "Tampa" in the home page code, 172 instances of "DJ" and 18 instances of "Tampa DJ"

What is perhaps more important from the Search engines' point of view is that the reason I noticed the over use of these terms is that the text flow and usability has been quite severely impacted.The text doesnt flow naturally when you read it and by the time I got to the end of the footer menu I really didn't want to ever see the word Tampa again 8(

It is a very easy thing to get so caught up in finding ways to use your keyword terms that you lose track of how many times you have already done it. There are a couple of tools you could use to help sort this problem:

• If you have a campaign running for the site in the SEOmoz Pro App, make sure you have your chosen keywords loaded and then use the On-page feature to identify and correct problems. (If you don't have paid Pro you can always check out the SEOmoz 30 Day Free Trial)

• OOPS! Scratch that next bit - Ryan just pointed out that the highlight feature is now in my beloved MozBar...YES!! One less bar I need to keep installed 8). I keep the SEOBook Toolbar for Firefox installed so I can use its Use the keyword highlighting feature in the MozBar (Check Ryan's post below for how to find it). Basically, you type your chosen term into the toolbar, click the highlighting pen and UH OH!! now you can see that there might be a few too many instances of your term on the page...  This is actually a tool I find really handy and easy to use - it's actually the only thing I wish was in the Mozbar (HINT, HINT Mozzers!!)

Hope this helps,

Sha

[RyanKent]

Sha, I agree with your assessment 100%. I would just like to add keyword highlighting is part of the MozBar. The 3rd icon (a pen) shows the mouse-over text as "Highlight Links or Text". Select the last option (Keyword Highlight) and you will find that functionality.

[ShaMenz]

OMG! I'm gonna lose my mind!

I had not realized it was there and of course right now I have no MozBar for FF due to the update problem, or are you by chance using Chrome Ryan?

[RyanKent]

I am using FF 6.0

I believe SEOmoz resolved the compatibility issue. If not, there is a compatibility add-on you can use to make it work, or there is a copy/paste 1 line of code hack you can use as well. Try it and if it doesn't work I'll look up the article which has the information.

[ShaMenz]

Awesome! Last I heard the new version was due sometime this week.

Thanks for that

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[RyanKent]

Should page title be exact match page title and/or your targeted keyword?

I am not entirely clear on the question. Your page title should reflect the keyword focus of your page.

With respect to EMDs, that is not an area I care to focus. If you follow the rest of SEO best practices, you can rank at the top without an EMD.

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[RyanKent]

I am doing my best here Marc but I am not entirely clear on what information I can share that has not already been provided in this Q&A.

Google crawls the web and adds web pages to its index. When a user performs a search query, Google then offers the "best" result based on numerous factors such as relevancy, quality factors, trust factors, importance of page, etc.

There are over 200 metrics which are evaluated to determine ranking. One of those factors is the title. If a title exactly matches the searcher's query, then the ranking will benefit from that match as Google sees the page as more likely to be relevant.

Does that help? If not, first try reading the following article: http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/title-tag. If you still desire help, please let me know exactly what information I can share that will assist you.