Hello,
I have been trying to optimise and tweak my website for the past 12
months. I have read a lot about general search engine optimisation
tactics, however I still have few questions, which I would just like to
ask (not in any particular order).
a) I noticed that I search google for "mydomain.com" (without the quotes
of course) I come up with some 7,000 results (excluding my own pages).
Most of the sites actually have a correct link (with www.) to my site –
very few omit the "www." but still have a working link. However if I
search google for link:www.mydomain.com I receive 0 results. Why could
that be?
b) When it comes to key/searchwords I have one major problem. I would
like a single word to be my "main keyword" under which I should be
found. However I have noticed that I do not even get listed in the
search results for this word, even though that keyword has a density of
slightly over 10% on the start page (no, I do not use a doorway page,
actual content :) ) of my site, when checking for a one word per phrase
density. A competitor of mine has a similar site structure and similar
keyword density and is the first result for that same keyword in google,
and I do not even get listed. On the other hand when it comes to two or
three word phrases I am always number one. The only difference between
me and my competitor, that I can see, is that he has the keyword in his
domain name (www.abc-keyword.com). I have it as a directory in my URL
(www.mydomain.com/keyword/). However I would be happy to be under the
top ten, but sadly enough the top ten are polluted by websites with
close to zero content, just a bunch of money-making adwords-spam-pages.
I would also gladly forfeit all my two and three word phrases for a top
ten position in the one word phrase-department. :) I spend about $2,500
on adwords for that certain keyword a month and it would be great to be
listed "completely normally". Is there a special tactic to use if you
are looking for a one-word keyword coverage? Does anyone know of a
similar problem? (BTW: my competitor only has 51 sites that link to him!
Google: why the injustice?)
c) I keep on reading that one should give google up to 10 weeks before
changes to ones website will start to take effect on google. It has only
been approximately a week, but I have noticed that google has respidered
my website in the meantime. When I look for my entry I also notice a new
(only one week old) more optimised text. However nothing has changed
regarding my positioning. Do I still need to wait? Or do the "10 weeks"
refer to the respidering?
Before I forget to mention it: I am not using frames nore a doorway
page, I use title-, meta-, h1-, alt-, etc. Tags/Attributes extensively.
Nothing seems to help. My current page rank is 5 (just recently jumped
from a long period at 4). I also wrote google a while back to ask why
this could be and to ask if I per chance had been sandboxed or something
similar. The google representative said that everything was fine with my
domain/entry, it could/would just be a optimisation matter.
Thanks and hoping for some insight.
Casper
