Your Site - Page 1 results for targeted key word?

[sucklebuster]

Could someone list their site which receives Page one results for your targeted key word please? Im trying to get an idea of your site content and how it is arragned...ect. Many Thanks.

 

Background: I can get to the page 2 and page 3 results for a given key word, but I just cant seem to break through to the first page. Additionally, I am having difficulty getting decent results with my catergory pages...for example Yahoo will not index my catgory pages at all.

[sucklebuster]

Buehler, Buehler...Anyone?

 

Nobody has page one serch results?????

[WoodsWalker]

Hi, Dan!

 

I've recently been working on this myself. I experienced a week with zero sales for the first time recently (average is 6-10, steadily). I tested everything, and then looked at Google. Most of my listings had disappeared! Horrors! But I immediately realized that I had caused it - in re-vamping my home page, I had removed or re-named some much-visited links within my pages - and that seemed to make a vast difference.

 

I restored the links, and within a couple of days, I was back there on Google - I am surprised (and happy) how fast it was! Sales are back, too.

 

Now I am paying close attention, and am mid-way through installing the Header Tags SEO contribution to our catalogue pages.

 

We market tube amps and related kits and books.

 

The web site is www.londonpower.com. Mind you, this is our original home page and related pages - NOT our catalogue home page, which is at www.londonpower.com/catalog/ . I have not got good listings for the catalogue pages yet specifically - that is what I hope the Header Tags contrib. will do. Most of the visitors to our online catalogue are therefore referred through our home page, which is fine.

 

If you search Google for "tube amp books", you should find a couple of listings for London Power on page one. If you look at the code you'll see complete meta tags, key words in the text, etc. - all the usual suggestions. No voodoo. But a big factor is that the home page and main related pages are popular with hobbyists and have been around since 1995 - so there are many incoming links. Part of this is because we offer lots of free technical info on the site.

 

A word about Yahoo - I have abysmal listings (if any listings at all) there. Many folks simply give up on working on Yahoo listings. On the other hand, my listings on MSN are even better than the Google ones.

 

Best of luck,

~Wendy

[lindsayanng]

optimizing your site for SEO is great, but no matter how man key words and layout specific links you have, quality back links are definitely the way to go to get a good solid standing in google.

 

We installed a blog on out site, which hasnt been indexed by google yet (just installed it 2 days ago) but i think that will be a HUGE help to our page.. Then just trading links that are relevent to your content is the next step..

[WoodsWalker]

Yepp, I've heard blogs are the latest greatest when it comes to getting better positioning in Google.

 

I worry, though, about administering a blog. Anyone could come in and post obscene material or bogus links there, so I'd always be watching it like a hawk.

 

Still, it's an intriguing idea...

 

~Wendy

[lindsayanng]

not really.. there are loads of plugins that you can set to search for certain words and phrases, and if you disable adding images, then all you have is text.. you also can moderate your comments. Not post then until you do it manually.

 

I am just learning abotu the blogging thing, and USUALLY a retail site that has a blog doesnt seem right (unless its more like a product review blog) Wordpress blogs have just as many plug ins and addons as osc does!! well, not AS many, but lots.. so if you install wordpress on your host, you will have full control over what is posted on your blogs.

[sucklebuster]

Wendy and Lindsay,

 

Thanks for your input. I too am working on the back links, which is a long process.

 

My site has Ultimate SEOs + Header Tags Controller with Category Tags installed.

 

In the interum I'm working to make my site as SEO friendly as possible. One issue I am concerned with is the lack of content on my category pages in the out-of-the-box version of the product. I would like to see how others have addressed this issue and I was hoping for examples of sites with good category page ranks. Perhaps the architecture of OSC doesn’t lend itself to SEO? It seems a little weird that nobody (at least none have responded) with good SERPs for their sites.

 

At this point Yahoo does not index my category pages. Any suggestions for what others are doing would be appreciated. Is it due to the lack of content on the category pages as I suspect? What did you do to overcome this issue?

 

As a side note I'm using Web Position for SEO analytics and it seem to be a very useful tool.

 

Many thanks,

 

Dan

[burt]

I just sent you a PM with an example of an osc site with a keyphrase.

 

#8 on Google.

#10 on Yahoo.

 

Can't see any category pages on Yahoo, but I haven't really looked that hard.

 

People seem to think that SEO is all about meta tags, alt attributes, friendly urls and the rest of it.

There is no real need to do much of anything (code wise) to get decent results in Search Engines.

 

Inbound links is where the money is at ;)

[sucklebuster]

Thanks Burt,

 

I will check out your site + your links. ;)

 

Dan

[WoodsWalker]

Hi again, Dan,

 

Since getting inbound links is a long process, I think the best approach is to concentrate also on content, where osC allows content to be placed easily - your index page and your product pages. Many people notice that their product pages are soon indexed ahead of their index page for certain searches, because information on product pages is so very specific (if you've done it right). I've examined the search strings people use and which of my pages they are raising, and I am amazed. I have always tested my site with search strings like "tube amplifier", but it turns out that many find my products with far-out strings like "two-triode" or such.

 

So, write a nice summary on your index page and load your product pages with relevant, complete, specific info.

 

Best of luck,

~Wendy

p.s. If anyone knows how to get content into category pages I hope they will post here.

[sucklebuster]

Hi again, Dan,

 

Since getting inbound links is a long process, I think the best approach is to concentrate also on content, where osC allows content to be placed easily - your index page and your product pages. Many people notice that their product pages are soon indexed ahead of their index page for certain searches, because information on product pages is so very specific (if you've done it right). I've examined the search strings people use and which of my pages they are raising, and I am amazed. I have always tested my site with search strings like "tube amplifier", but it turns out that many find my products with far-out strings like "two-triode" or such.

 

So, write a nice summary on your index page and load your product pages with relevant, complete, specific info.

 

Best of luck,

~Wendy

p.s. If anyone knows how to get content into category pages I hope they will post here.

 

Im right there with you Wendy - One reason I was trying to beef up the content on the category page is due to the way Google ranked my website pages (which is currently messed up do some recent changes I made on my site): Google ranked my index page 4, category pages 3 and product pages 2 AND I am getting more search results pointing to my category pages vs. product pages. I wanted to take advantage of that + the fact that Yahoo does not index my category pages...anyway, Im rambling.

 

Like you, I am interested in ideas to improve category pages content...IF OSC provided for detailed content in categories similar to product pages - that would be great for my site!

[Guest]

not really.. there are loads of plugins that you can set to search for certain words and phrases, and if you disable adding images, then all you have is text.. you also can moderate your comments. Not post then until you do it manually.

 

I am just learning abotu the blogging thing, and USUALLY a retail site that has a blog doesnt seem right (unless its more like a product review blog) Wordpress blogs have just as many plug ins and addons as osc does!! well, not AS many, but lots.. so if you install wordpress on your host, you will have full control over what is posted on your blogs.

 

Hi lindsayanng,

 

I could really use some pro advice on this blog thing, I sell computer parts and I can use all the help I can get.

My first questions would be, which blog software to use? Do I install this on my existing domain or setup another?

This is a link to my site and like I said, computer hardware is very competitive so any advice would be greatly appreciated.

 

Here is the URL:

 

www.rickspcparts.com/catalog/

[lindsayanng]

rick, i have used WORDPRESS and am VERY happy. You actually install it on your host like you do with osc and then you can add plugins and themes VERY easily.. I didnt make my blog look EXACTLY like my catalog page, so its not "seamless" but it is under the same domain. I am SUPER happy with wordpress and continue to use them.

 

UNFORTUNATELY my blog has not yet been indexed by google./

[Guest]

rick, i have used WORDPRESS and am VERY happy. You actually install it on your host like you do with osc and then you can add plugins and themes VERY easily.. I didnt make my blog look EXACTLY like my catalog page, so its not "seamless" but it is under the same domain. I am SUPER happy with wordpress and continue to use them.

 

UNFORTUNATELY my blog has not yet been indexed by google./

 

Thanks, I cant seem to set mine up right to make it work. I keep getting these error messages.

I tried inserting the url but it will not take it.

 

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: get_option() in /hsphere/local/home/rickspc/rickspcparts.com/blog/wp-content/plugins/wp-contactform.php on line 14

 

Fatal error: Call to undefined function: get_option() in /hsphere/local/home/rickspc/rickspcparts.com/blog/wp-content/plugins/options-contactform.php on line 10

[toneus]

Just to concur with Lindsay, I've installed WordPress and found it useful too. I've got the blog and the shop (catalog) linked through the home page and it was easy enough to get the theme running throughout. www.upsmart.co.uk

 

As for SEO, well I'm nowhere on my key search phrases, but do come up in #1 spot for product specific searches, so Google does index the site - and the OSCommerce section.

 

And reiterating what has been said, it does appear that inbound links are the key to high positioning in Google, but there's no easy way of achieving this, or at least there doesn't seem to be. If anybody has any good ideas I'd love to hear them.

 

And Rickey - I think you should check out the Wordpress forum for an answer to your problem. My installation had no problems, so there's no conflict with OSCommerce as far as I can tell.