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I tend to focus on two or three main keywords to target from the homepage. In fact come to think of it from all pages.

Do you target up to 10 keywords of more from one page. Taking longer tail keywords into consideration.

Granted the limits to any phrase or keyword group.

Would you guys be open to share some examples of your work ? Here are a few of mine -

http://www.dryhide.co.uk  and http://www.alfrescolivingonline.co.uk

Working on both of these at the moment would be cool to get any positive or negative (you can improve here) feedback.

I tend to work on the on page changes first of all following keyword research. Then take a look at some internal linking,

Setup a wordpress blog on /blog or sub domain and get my copywriter to start adding regular content .

Next stage is link building

Old fashioned emails requests, blog comments taking a look through existing sites we own for relevant places.

On going analysis once positions change.

what about the script errors here - http://www.radiatorcentre.com

anything to worry about.

we found ourselves in this very position and it was at a point where we were looking out for issues for a site not indexing.

We removed it but then again you find many examples where it isnt a major issue. Maybe try to combat that with canonicals ?

Real life realtionships = very good long lasting links in my experience. Another great thing is to start offering a blog creation service to your clients. Then you could perhaps suggest to customers in relevant areas to trade links on there blogs.

When looking to improve a sites ranking . I am working on a site that has script errors and needs fixing have you had any experience ?

To take a site from no where to the top of google in some of the top industries such as Gambling and Finance.

I am a never say never type entrepreneur and say yes the logic is there as with all SEO to break into it.

How do you feel the internet will shape up in say 10 years time will we see less of the smaller guys take on the world with the larger keywords.

Your spot on the top three has to be achieve to be in the money. I have had a few examples that have delivered traffic with being at the bottom of the first page but not many.

I agree but I do feel that some SEO companies can fail to mention the fact that SEO and CPC are both needed in many cases. Customers feel CPC is an expensive means to an end when in reality they have to complete it to have any sort of full market share online.

Many times now we have pushed certain keywords for homepage listings but we have found the traffic levels to be very poor and many cases first page listings turn out to be vanity.

The frustrating thing is that sometimes we have to tell some of our SEO customers that in order to get a good market share for there industry they will always have to do google adwords.

What are your thoughts on this .

Thanks

its interesting how the little niche industries such as these provide these type of job. One of my biggest jobs for SEO was an online garden centre where I had to name each and every single perennial plant and they have all now been indexed. When I took over the site it wasnt even possible to add unique titles and descriptions in the CMS. I also had to totally restructure it so that the site had sub categories instead of listing products on up to 20 pages.

found the offending link good spot Alan.

been looking into it and the index page is being shown in Google analytics as receiving a good few thousand visitors per month. So as a result I am going to check the adwords accounts also.

We have taken over a site and now find our self looking at the homepage of the site which has hidden scrolling text.

A old school way of adding text without leaving loads of paragraphs. I have also removed all links to the index.htm page but somewhere visitors are still coming to this page in there droves.

I am considering using a canonical url code but I would rather nip it in the bud.

Would love some feedback from some other experts here is the site -

http://www.radiatorcentre.com

You never stop learning in seo and maybe we can all learn from this example.

Thanks

What have been your most proudest moments in SEO ? What would you consider as being you best achieved job and in what industry was it achieved it.

What are the reasons you have this down as your biggest achievement ?

thanks EGOL some great replies. On the sites in question it ranks NO1 for its major keyword on google .

Its a very competitive term in the supplements industry.

Whey protein which other competitors target from their homepages. The sites page is the highest ranking non "homepage"

alan I am well aware of the complexities (Granny and suck eggs) comes to mind

Not looking for a in depth response just wanted to know if anyone else has experienced this difficulty with category pages.

I am finding it a real uphill task with a few of our clients with there either product or category pages competing against other sites on main keywords.

The sites either categories or product specific pages are in direct competition with other sites homepages and I am finding it increasingly more difficult to break into positions.

What are other peoples experiences with this ? Do you feel the way the pages are ranked within the xml sitemap with priority could also be a factor.