Hi Mozzers,

I'm looking for any suggestions on how to improve my on page SEO for www.data-contracts.co.uk

Main keyword is 'Concrete repair' which is sitting at around about 20/21 in the SERP's

Looking for blatantly obvious ideas that I've missed too

Thanks in advance!

KS,

The best place to start will be with Google Places.

And a useful topic to read will be about hitting the top of Google Places

Good luck!

Hey Marcus,

I've implemented a few of the things you suggested, yet to get a blog up and running but hopefully it's in the process.

Seeing as you gave me such a thorough reply I was wondering if you could help me with another site. www.data-contracts.co.uk

I am struggling to rank for concrete repair on google.co.uk. I've tested a few things but cannot get anything to budge in the SERP.

Any suggestions?

Cheers

I went through the same problem as you. I went for the Youtube option, embedded 3 videos onto my site and used the old object code so that my videos would get indexed. It took ages for Google to even acknowledge them, never mind show them on the SERP.

I changed to Wistia, using the free option of 3 videos (it might be 5?) and within less than a week, my videos were returning in the SERP linking to the correct page on my site. My site is also listed for the same page on the same SERP. So in effect, 2 results for my one page on the first page of Google.

My good experience!

I like to think of it as, contributing what I know to help newer people than me, and taking what I can in a bid to develop my skills and learn from experienced Mozzers!

Thanks for your contribution Irving!

Thanks for the clarification.

Dim strTitle : strTitle = "The Title Of My Page"

<title>Company name - <%=strTitle%></title>

<%=strTitle%>

Will Google be able to read this? When I view source the relevant information is in the tags but I'm wondering if Google hates this or not?

Cheers!

Cheers Marcus!

Marcus,
Excellent response, thank you!

I will explain some of my thinking. The bland page names were so that all the focus was on the keyword and not spread out onto branding. I felt the branding was doing well on its own as the majority of customers coming to the site are through the brand name. I will take your advice on this subject now.
Thanks for spending the time creating examples for SERP listings, I obviously haven't spent enough of my own time on them!

I could do with more help regarding the HTTPS & WWW. The HTTPS I believe is because there is a SSL certificate on our website for each page for the request a call back. I would gladly see our URLs display as WWW on the SERP but I don't know how to rectify this, do you?

And why not create a blog? I feel enlightened, a quick thought, how would you implement the blog, as a seperate navigation heading and page? Or a seperate site such as blogspot?

Thanks a lot for your help.

Yes I am in Walsall, but I don't the place very well unfortunately.

They won't negatively impact your rating. The only problem with using them is that your competitors will be able to view what keywords you are trying to rank for, whereas you currently have the upper hand on all your competitors. They are still used in Bing and Yahoo I believe though, so if you are focusing SEO efforts on these search engines then they will be beneficial.

The missing gaps are optimisation opportunities I have missed with my site. 
I have managed to optimise the site a great deal from what it was, with a new site design and better architecture and focusing on all the on page SEO.
The only problem being it doesn't seem to be an easy market to create links through or find interesting places to guest post or interact on blogs.

The site is https://perco.co.uk

I would be grateful if anyone could give me an overview on the site and their thoughts?

Cheers

In house

This won't slow down your site, it is perfectly acceptable to have both images and words linking to another page.

Yes it is always good to have relevant fresh content on your site, as you have stated. If you keep the content under UK news and it changes regularly then this should be seen as a good thing. Take the bbc website as an example, it changes content every hour! A small paragraph of content linking to a large page of content will not be seen as duplicate content.

I hope this helps.

Shaun

Diane,

You should be careful of not writing too much content here which might replay as duplicate content on the actual linked page. This doesn't seem too much at the moment though.

I did notice that the heading and image both link to the same page, the image won't count as another link.

On the whole content is good, but it might improve your CTR if you only give a snapshot leading people to want to know more.

Hi Matt

I had a look at the post, it is relevant but doesn't really clarify anything.

I am worried that there is something I am doing wrong because the pages are well linked internally and I am pretty sure they will have external links to them too.

There has been a massive restructure. I have gone from http://www.mysite.com/services/my-product.aspx to https://mysite.com/services/3-stage-name.aspx

OSE shows I have no data on my HTTP status for these new pages too. I can't seem to get to the bottom of this.

It's one step closer to Google showing us exactly what we are after, soon enough clicking search will be like clicking the 'I'm feeling lucky!' button.

I can't imagine it effecting the CTR on the homepage as if you are searching for that brand name, then other sites aren't going to be closely related.

Note: If you are using rank checkers, your site will be 3 steps closer to #1 then they say, as they are mostly based around 10 searches per page!

As the title states, my page authority (PA) has completely disappeared for certain pages on my site.
I have recently had a redesign and optimised the page names, redirecting the page it has replaced.
This has been nearly 2 months now and the new pages are showing PA of 1 still.
The 301 redirects definitely work so what am I doing wrong?

Thanks in advance!

Ok I figured it out for anyone that wants to know.

<% If InStr(Request.ServerVariables("SERVER_NAME"),"www") = 0 Then Response.Status="301 Moved Permanently" Response.AddHeader "Location","http://www.xxxxx.com" & request.ServerVariables("URL") & Request.ServerVariables("QUERY_STRING") Response.End

Else If

InStr(Request.ServerVariables("SERVER_NAME"),"xxxxx.com") = 0 then Response.Status="301 Moved Permanently" Response.AddHeader "Location","http://www.xxxxx.com" & request.ServerVariables("URL") & Request.ServerVariables("QUERY_STRING") Response.End end if

End if %>

I'm looking to redirect non www to www and also .co.uk to .com.

http://www.xxxxx.com is the intended target.

http://xxxxx.com & http://www.xxxxx.co.uk & http://xxxxx.co.uk to redirect.

I managed to do some of this but if I come through to a service page /services/cars.asp it redirects to the homepage.

All I have so far is this code:

<% If InStr(Request.ServerVariables("SERVER_NAME"),"www") = 0 ThenResponse.write "http://www." & Request.ServerVariables("HTTP_HOST") & Request.ServerVariables("URL") & "?" & Request.ServerVariables("QUERY_STRING")Response.EndEnd if %>

What am I missing?

So I was wondering, as from time to time I get a tiny bit excited if I manage to gain a new link that I've tried hard to get or I manage to outrank that **** that has been stuck at number 1 for so long or if I managed to do some A/B testing which has led to more leads and conversions.

Does anybody else cheer inside or even have a short outburst of YEAAAH! f*** you Wikipedia! when they do something worthwhile?

I may be on my own here..