Help with Google

By : Growing Business
Published 26th March 2010 |
Read latest comment - 23rd July 2011

I was lucky enough to hit google page 1 for a week
But now dropped to top spot on page 2

So now need to try an get that place back. I dont know anything about SEO and all that. So look around google to see what i could find out about it, Anyway, it was all double ducth to me, buy one thing i did pick up on was something to do with have having some things in bold.

lets say. i had on my site: Fresh and Frozen fish and Seafood at wholesale pricess ...

If i changed that to Fish and Seafood at wholesale prices...

so i looke at a site that was above me and on there page all be it near the bottom they had Fish and Seafood in there write up.

would this make a difference

sean

sean44mc
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...1 one thing i did pick up on was something to do with have having some things in bold.

lets say. i had on my site: Fresh and Frozen fish and Seafood at wholesale pricess ...

If i changed that to Fish and Seafood at wholesale prices...

so i looke at a site that was above me and on there page all be it near the bottom they had Fish and Seafood in there write up.

would this make a difference

sean

Hi Sean, I think what you have picked up on is header text.

SEO, (and lets be honest, Google) is whole host of tips and tricks. Google has a complex algorithm that decided the fate of your site and its pages, and 100's of things make up this algorithm. The exact makeup is known only to Google, so the rest of the world has to speculate and guess. Any SEO outfit that tells you they know how Googles ranking works is telling you porky pies, and to compound this, Google likes to update their algorithm reguarly to which tends to give all the search engine results a good shake up.

The basic format of SEO is farly static, its the importance big G places on individual aspects that causes all the fun.

What your talking about is header title tags such as <h1>Steves Fish</h1>

Google will see this as an important keyword on the page, and will assign more importance to it, than say a title further down the page which may be <h2>Steves bargain fish</h2>

Importance of these header tags is mixed. Me personally, I think the h1's are important, after that the rest less so, but every little helps!

The current number 1 way to get yourself ontop of page 1 google for your given keyword in my personal view, is good old fashioned anchor text.

So link building, with your keyword as the link.

I'm going to do future post on SEO 101, starting from scratch and what I think you need to do to get on Google, and let everyone add their 3 pence worth

Steve Richardson
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Hi Sean, I think what you have picked up on is header text.

SEO, (and lets be honest, Google) is whole host of tips and tricks. Google has a complex algorithm that decided the fate of your site and its pages, and 100's of things make up this algorithm. The exact makeup is known only to Google, so the rest of the world has to speculate and guess. Any SEO outfit that tells you they know how Googles ranking works is telling you porky pies, and to compound this, Google likes to update their algorithm reguarly to which tends to give all the search engine results a good shake up.

The basic format of SEO is farly static, its the importance big G places on individual aspects that causes all the fun.

What your talking about is header title tags such as <h1>Steves Fish</h1>

Google will see this as an important keyword on the page, and will assign more importance to it, than say a title further down the page which may be <h2>Steves bargain fish</h2>

Importance of these header tags is mixed. Me personally, I think the h1's are important, after that the rest less so, but every little helps!

The current number 1 way to get yourself ontop of page 1 google for your given keyword in my personal view, is good old fashioned anchor text.

So link building, with your keyword as the link.

I'm going to do future post on SEO 101, starting from scratch and what I think you need to do to get on Google, and let everyone add their 3 pence worth

Thanks for the help. I have decided that im putting to much thought into SEO.

I think at this point i am going to leave well along, finish a couple of pages i need to.

I guess second spot on yahoo first page is not to bad.
Top of second page for now on goolge not to bad.
If i click search UK pages only, im about 4th on first page of google.

sites above me a proffesionaly done, mine is done myself. So i am going to concentrate on site and products.

sean

sean44mc

forum avatarkiranraj
23rd July 2011 8:31 AM
Keep more quality backlinks for your website for getting your ranking back....

kiranraj

Sounds like you need to collect some links from respectable websites with your keywords in the links (called anchor text)

There are plenty of directories etc that will do the trick try searching for "Yahoo Directory" as a start.

highlandspring

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