When, oh when??????

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Published 10th August 2010 | Last comment 3rd September 2010

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12th August 2010 4:02 PM

“Hey Linda

That's good that you're doing the SEO yourself, I just assumed there was a company doing it for you. You will learn from the experience

Keep on going, the more you learn about the whole thing, the better.

Ignorance is no good!
SEO is such a major factor in Website Development, it's important to put time into it ^^

The best of luck!”

Thanks 14Visual. There's a "catch 22" quality about typical small business life (including SEO) isn't there? You've got to become reasonably good in lots of fields way outside your areas of specialism to make the money you'll need to pay the experts later on to do the jobs for you ....

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28th August 2010 1:28 PM

Hi Linda

Looks like some of your phrases have moved you up a little.

Career planning assessment

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28th August 2010 2:07 PM

I know people say the toolbar is months out of date so maybe it's just me, but whenever we complete a website, out of habit I manually submit to Google, Yahoo and Bing, and the grey bar turns to white within a matter of a of weeks; perhaps a month say, though I dont track it daily so thats just an estaimate. So how does that make the toolbar out of date if these sites were only launched say 4 weeks ago?

So tell me, what keyword do you want this page to rank for?

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29th August 2010 11:24 AM

Originally Posted by indizine

“I know people say the toolbar is months out of date so maybe it's just me”

I've read it numerous times on SEO forums that it's between 4 - 6 months out of date, and saw it on a recent(ish)google blog referring to 6 months, but just hunted and can't find that reference, but heres an older one dating from July 2008, from Matt Cutts who quotes "we do a new push of toolbar PageRanks every 3-4 months"

But I've noticed that the toolbar goes from greyed out to PR0 very quickly for a new site, but then it's 4 - 6 months before I see any PR increase. Maybe greyed out to PR0 is a confirmation you've been indexed, if not yet worthy of any ranking?

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30th August 2010 11:45 AM

Originally Posted by tomsk

“Hi Linda

Looks like some of your phrases have moved you up a little.

Career planning assessment”

Yup! Am now on Google pge 1 (UK and I think web) for career planning assessment and career planning advice!

Potentially another 1,000 local visitors!

Thanks for your advice and help. There's still "way to go" on the site but it is at least going the right way.

Best wishes Linda

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2nd September 2010 4:28 PM

Originally Posted by CareersPartnershipUK

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Hi everybody

I'm wondering how long I should wait for improvements in the Google positioning of my "career plan" page (SEOMoz term targeting rated A, 16 July 2010). This page doesn't appear on the first 7 pages of Google. By contrast, halfway down the first page of Google is a D rated competitor.

When I look at this page on my site, the Google toolbar says it "does not rank page" (ie it's grey).

Do these facts in combination mean Google doesn't see my "career plan" page at all (and if so, what's the most likely problem?) or is it just being a bit slow to pick it up, please?”

The first thing I noticed was the title tag is to long, the meta description is stuffed with keywords and the meta keywords tag has far to many terms, try tweeking these to comply with Google standards

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3rd September 2010 4:25 PM

Thanks for your advice. You're right about me stuffing keywords, I know I overdo it sometimes.

I work on the principle - if I've stuffed in the keywords but I've got to Google pge 1 and the text is still reasonably OK, then I'm not going to worry.

If my text item (often a blog item) doesn't appear anywhere when I think it should, then I try removing some of the stuffing. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't.

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