hi guys. i’m kinda new to SEO. anyways, i’m doing SEO for www.mountainviewcyprus.com and i’ve been working on it for months. i only just recently redesigned it, fixing its messy HTML, placing keywords, internal links, headers, alt texts, using anchor texts, nofollow, etc. i’ve done a lot of work on the site. but still, the site is at page 2 on google. it’s just about 5 positions away from page one for my selected keywords. i feel like i’m missing something. so i’d like tips, ideas, advices… what can i do that will really work? i’ve followed google’s guidelines, as well as yahoo’s. i recently started blogging (i’m still new to this) and content writing is not coming easy either.
i need people (people with experience in SEO) to pass judgment at my site, and blog too. make comments, give tips and advices.
you need to consider off page SEO as well. build your link network.
For on page SEO, you can use Senseo, it’s a firefox plugin that will detect common seo errors.
Wow, looks to me as you have “over optimized” that site. The amount of time you have spent looks to be disproportionately spent on following the myth of “keyword density”.
<div id="topkeywords">
<b><a class="link2" title="North Cyprus Hotels" href="http://www.mountainviewcyprus.com/">North Cyprus Hotels</a> .
<a class="link2" title=" North Cyprus Holidays" href="http://www.mountainviewcyprus.com/"> North Cyprus Holidays</a> .
<a class="link2" title=" Hotels In Cyprus" href="http://www.mountainviewcyprus.com/"> Hotels In Cyprus</a> .
<a class="link2" title=" Hotels In Kyrenia Northern Cyprus" href="http://www.mountainviewcyprus.com/"> Hotels In Kyrenia Northern Cyprus</a> .
<a class="link2" title=" Northern Cyprus Hotels" href="http://www.mountainviewcyprus.com/"> Northern Cyprus Hotels</a> .
<a class="link2" title=" Northern Cyprus Holidays" href="http://www.mountainviewcyprus.com/"> Northern Cyprus Holidays</a> .
<a class="link2" title=" North Cyprus" href="http://www.mountainviewcyprus.com/"> North Cyprus</a></b></div>
Linking to home-page, from your home-page, using multiple links is pointless.
Having 4(!) link pages with ridiculous links and text like “increase your page rank” is a sure-fire way to get you in the bad-books with search engines.
Actually - I could go on and on about what you are doing wrong but it wouldn’t help - what you should be doing is writing/gathering great content, and getting links to that content from natural authoritative sources.
Removing all of that keyword repetition would be a good start to ensure you don’t raise a spam-flag with Google and the others as well.
I am also managing a few website and working on their SEO and this post has been really thankful. Please add more tips from those who are veterans in this field.
about those links on top. they weren’t meant to point to the home page. that was more of a temporary solution that i completely forgot after a while, lol.
But please “go on and on” about what i’m doing wrong… that’s the only reason i created this thread.
what else am i doing wrong? and what’s wrong with my onpage seo so far? and as for “great contents” i’m having a hard time doing that cos this is just a website for a small hotel and statistics show that visitors are not even interested in the articles. they just visit the home page, hotel rates, special offers and they’re out, lol.
also, any tips on converting visitors to customers would be nice too.
i’m new to all this, so i can use all the help, tips, criticism and advices i can get. Thanks guys.
I think that seriocomic pretty much nailed it, you might have used the word ‘cyprus’ too many times. Google doesn’t need much to understand what a page is about, using the word cyprus just enough times that it makes sense to a human will be enough. Linking back to the page that you’re on has no user benefit at all and Google aren’t stupid, they’ll see that and it’s not helping you because there’s no reason for you to do it except to try and spam their index and they don’t like that. Rewrite the page as if search engines didn’t exist.
Also, try to get relevant backlinks, a lot of your backlinks just don’t make any sense and most of them are probably not giving any benefit at all.
As for converting visitors, that comes down to understanding the needs of your target demographic and then giving them what they want and then analysing their behaviour onsite to figure out if you can improve the performance of the site. Set goals, work out the optimal user paths through the site to achieve those goals and then test test test.