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Does anyone have any tips for helping to increase the page ranking of our websites? :) Is it just a matter of getting your website listed on as many sites as possible?

I've had companies guarantee that they can get me in the top 10 search results for "Bristol computer repair", but I've always wondered how they do it (not enough to pay them £800 though!).

Also, when you type in "Bristol computer repair" the first results are usually google maps with links to local computer repair companies. Any ideas how you increase your ranking on there too?
 
Simmy said:
Does anyone have any tips for helping to increase the page ranking of our websites? :) Is it just a matter of getting your website listed on as many sites as possible?

I've had companies guarantee that they can get me in the top 10 search results for "Bristol computer repair", but I've always wondered how they do it (not enough to pay them £800 though!).

Also, when you type in "Bristol computer repair" the first results are usually google maps with links to local computer repair companies. Any ideas how you increase your ranking on there too?
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Definitely not worth paying for. You can do this easily by yourself. The phrase "Bristol computer repair" is not a highly sought after one, so you can achieve top 10 pretty easy. If you are serious about learning SEO, check out seobook.com, great book, lots of stuff to learn, it can be overwhelming, but once it starts sinking in, no big deal. The hardest part is actually sticking to it and doing it.

And to answer your question, getting links back into your site is just one way to help. Links from other web sites should be from related content as well. One way to do this is to write an article and put it on Digg.

Another important item is to put keywords in your Page Title. Each page on your site should have a unique title based on the pages content and your most important keywords.

Take a look at my home page: http://digitaldvs.com

The page title is: Michigan Computer Services, Downriver, Allen Park

Because of this page title, we rank in google on the following:

allen park computer services - 2nd out of 387,000

downriver computer services - 4th out of 20,300

michigan computer services - 25th out of 1,640,000

So really isn't that hard to rank high in low competition keywords..
 
Reading up on some research is better then most free tools youll find, but one website I really like is websitegrader.com

It gets you in the right direction.
 
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That is a great site to use as a reference, but be careful on the results. You will find other sites do the same things. Problem is if you keep trying to change your site according to what those reports say you may hurt yourself in the long run.

When doing optimization you have to continually tweak things. But, the most important thing is to make sure your site is coded correctly to begin with. Otherwise it will mess with your rankings.

We service 4 major cities. I am not putting the cities because I think these forums are picked up in searches and don’t want to reflect such. If anyone needs to see the exact cities I am talking about feel free to pm/email me and I’ll give you them.

In GOOGLE we rank:

CITY computer repair – 1st out of 50,200
CITY computer repair – 7th out of 122,000
CITY computer repair – 1st out of 80,100
CITY computer repair – 1st out of 105,000
STATE computer repair – 1st out of 227,000

In YAHOO we rank:

CITY computer repair – 3rd out of 421,000
CITY computer repair – 3rd out of 1,290,000
CITY computer repair – 4th out of 584,000
CITY computer repair – 11th out of 1,250,000
STATE computer repair – 3rd out of 13,000,000

We also do very well in the other search engines i.e. aol, msn, etc. It is important to make sure you are not seo'ing for one specific search engine.
 
If your main goal is just to be the 1st result for "Bristol Computer Repair" then link to your main page using that phrase from high PR sites. For example maybe you could write a couple articles and submit them to tech related places and then have "Bristol Computer Repair" linked at the end under your name, etc.

There is no big secret to search engine placement. The more people linking to you with high PR using certain phrases the better your placement will be for those searches.
 
Jory said:
If your main goal is just to be the 1st result for "Bristol Computer Repair" then link to your main page using that phrase from high PR sites. For example maybe you could write a couple articles and submit them to tech related places and then have "Bristol Computer Repair" linked at the end under your name, etc.
There is no big secret to search engine placement. The more people linking to you with high PR using certain phrases the better your placement will be for those searches.
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Jory...I do not think it is that easy otherwise everyone would do it ;)
Obviously a one-way link is great. Try to find a PR 6 willing to give you a one-way link for no reason...Not very often that will happen.

You are right there is no secret but there is work to be done. If it was that easy everyone would have a pr6 and nobody would care who is #1.
 
Sorry to drag this back up. Thanks for the link and info everyone. I've modified my site slightly based on the tutorials I've read, so i just have to wait and see how that goes.

In attempt to boost the number of hits on my website I have purchased the domains bristolpcrepair.com and bristolcomputerrepair.com. My logic is that these are the top keywords when people do a google search. Will this help my page ranking at all or have I just spent £20 on domains for nothing?

I've also asked my local newspaper if I can write a weekly article for them. Hopefully they will use the article online aswell and I can improve my ranking that way.
 
Setup 301 or 302 redirectors so they point to your mainsite.
If you don't do this, Google may split your page rank between the three sites.
Which would be a bad thing.
Fair play for buying those domains.
 
My hosting company has already pointed the domain to my mainsite e.g. www.bristolpcrepair.com. But the address bar still displays bristolpcrepair.com rather than smg-computers.com though. Is that not right?
 
I don't remember where I read this but...

I read somewhere that the longer a domain is registered for it helps increase your ranking, so if you register it for an additional 1 or 2 it might help, and sure beats the 800 price,

Just another thought.
 
Ive just setup a new website www.trustport.com.au and am going though the process of promoting my site. It certainly is time-consuming but a LOT of fun.

Ive found this site an excellent help http://www.submitexpress.com/ in refining my keywords using their free web analyzer. Ive managed to get my metatag title up to 100% and my description tag up to 94% after many hours of trial and error.

This program is just amazing www.visitorville.com for watching and monitoring visitors to your site. You can actually watch them surf in real time, playback visits, as well as get a lot of info on how they got to the site, who referred them, etc, etc..its like Sim City for webmasters lol
 
The 301 redirect was confusing me so I've kinda bodged the php to make it work. Using a basic redirect with .htaccess, the redirect entered an endless loop. Basically if the domain wasn't www.smg-computers.com then I wanted to redirect it to that. I believe the code would be;

RewriteEngine On

RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^.*bristolpcrepair\.com$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.smg-computers.com/$1 [R=301,L]
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However, because they link to the same webspace it kept on redirecting. What was I doing wrong? This is how I got around it;

if ($_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] != "www.smg-computers.com")
{
Header("HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently");
Header("Location:http://www.smg-computers.com");
}
?>
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nonchalant said:
http://www.submitexpress.com/
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Very useful link nonchalant :) I got my title to 100%, description and keywords to 83%. It also made me notice that I'd placed the </head> tag before the <title> tag in my code, so it wasn't registering a title :mad: That must have affected my page ranking somewhat.
 
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Yea its very handy. I finally got my description suitability to 100%. In the end actually deleting part of the description metatag brought it up from the 93% I seemed to be stuck on. My site content, keywords and metatags is now rating as good to excellent on most simulators so Im pretty happy. Just need some very minor fine tuning with metags/keywords and Im done (until such time as I change or add content that is lol).

WebCeo is another good program that helped me refine my site.
 
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