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For a non-blog post page , consider adding vertical bars to make your title easy to read and visually appealing: Yes, we just told you to put your keywords in your title to please search engines. Just like your milk to cereal ratio, you need to find the right balance when inserting your keywords. Overloading your title tags with keywords will dissuade people from clicking on your page. While title limits on Wix sites are 70 characters, we recommend that you keep your meta title between 55 — 60 characters, including spaces. Remember, every character counts. Have a look at tools such as SEOmofo to check if your title is at optimal length.
If you had a chance to check out these 7 SEO sins , then you know that duplicate content is a big no-no. This applies to your titles well. Like all things on your Wix website, you want to make it stunning. As for blog post titles, you want to make your titles are as catchy and clickable as possible. You can do this by adding adjectives and numbers to captivate readers. Check out this research about most shared blog titles to get inspired.
This will help you look like a boss on the SERP. Ready to write SEO titles for your page? First, you have to create a stunning website with the Wix website builder! Hi, I wonder if this option is available in a free account with Wix, or whether it is only for paying customers? Could you please clarify? This site uses Akismet to reduce spam. Learn how your comment data is processed. What is a title tag? By the way, despite what others might tell you.
If you have any decent content, they will find it pretty quick. Best Tools for Running a Retail Website. My wife and I also publish guest articles for other web site owners to help increase exposure to our work, as well as provide good content to site owners. It really is a win win situation! That is some inspirational stuff.
Never knew that opinions could be this varied. Be certain to keep writing. Your page is so useful and really improve some things that I missed before. Everything with fully explanation and comprehensive information support. Really like you a lot. I have a question, is it necessary to make site map and submit to Google web-master tool? Can u give me a suggestion on how to make better ranking and help me to solve site map problems? Actually i need help, i have been doing seo with the collaboration of my partner, we ranked at the bottom of first page but after few days our site vanished and now its hardly seen.
Hi Tammy, sounds like things have not gone so well. Drop me an email and let me know the site and the keywords you were hoping to optimise for search. I tried emailing you but your email address bounced. Hi David, Wonderful article and very helpful. Could you please email me, would you be interested in doing this for our website?
Shoot through an email to service malleeblue. Thanks for the tips. I have now submitted it to Google Webmaster Tools and will wait and see how long it takes to index. Being a Social marketing specialist I appreciate your post. Thanks for sharing this valuable post. Your are step by step described a better post making idea. Thank you very much, I shall be putting your tips to work, as I have a guitar tuition website that struggles to get recognized by Google.
Thank you so much for your article. It gives me a great explanation of what needs done to all of my pages on my website I am building. I had a lot of this information in play already but if you would like to view what I have, please do so and any advice will be very appreciated. Glad you found the article helpful. Let me know the site you are trying to rank for and I will take a look. I use presta shop to build my sites. Also if you are doing a description in the body are you also stating that you should use a h1 and then go into full description.
Thank you in advance for your assistance. I have not had any feedback from the forums in presta shop and thought that since you commented on it that I could seek your advice plus I know one of the companies that you mentioned. Great writing and Great Reading!!! Thank you very much, It gives me a great explanation of what needs to be done to all of the pages on my website. This is amazing information! I am starting a web design business, but I was thinking of doing SEO instead. Or maybe just freelance SEO. Well anyways, thank you so much! Google loves fresh content so a nice article or content could really help you to get on top in search results of Google.
The problem I am having with my site is that I have no keywords. I know absolutly nothing about keywords or keyword research so I am stuck. I was kind of hoping you could shed a little more light on keyword research or do you have another article that goes into more details on this subject? None of my content is keyword friendly I just typed it all up and put it in there. Great article I will implement these things and see what I can get out of it. John, keyword research is easier than many make it out to be.
Start with this resource and let me know if you want some further help. I followed this advice and within 2 hrs i was 4th on the first page of google after 6 months of trying. Thanks for the help.
I looked at other websites source codes and keywords and this help to change mine. Stephen, delighted to know that it helped. Keep in touch and let me know if you need anything more. I loved how you were able to synergize the hummingbird benefits into ranking well. I came across your website. The 10 steps involved to create a google friendly website. I did not even think about this. You really explained it very detailed. I am going to start using this technique.. Thank You for posting. Thanks for the great posts, we have used everything listed. Have a pretty good SEO guy and rank on page one organically for most of our keywords.

Many people have tried. Thank you so much for sharing it and excellent work! I really enjoy reading your down to earth, concise article on SEO and how to promote via social media. The website however poorly position on searches at the moment and need someone honest and a true expert to help me get it on Google first page result. Hi, We are a 2 years established business. We have been on page one of Google listings for years but now on page 6.
Any ideas for us? Hi Mohammed, it appears the site may have been sand-boxed by Google. The site could also do with a design upgrade to improve speed, mobile and tablet use, time on site and user interaction which are all ranking factors in Google. Let me know if I can be of more help. David — I am a teacher in Australia. Scunderwood holds the first 8 places on google.
How can I make money from viewership and advertising on google,. Victorian Year 12 Specialist Maths course here. Should I build my own site that can advertise? Can I make money from wikispaces? I read through your article, and I must admit it really opened up my eyes. I have a business doing window blinds in south africa and we recently launched our website.
However , after following all the steps as instructed in you article, I still can not get my website to the first page on google search engine. Can you perhaps tell me what am I doing wrong or help me out. The biggest SEO advice I have taken from this is know your topic and add value to the web. Which this article clearly does. Hi, let me know your URL, and give me an example of an article and its keyword and I will take a look.
You are on the right track. What you need to work on is some social signals. Make sure you are sharing the article across a number of Social Media Sites. Also create a free Scoop. If you can add a video or some good images that will also help. Just remember to optimise those images. Finally, and most importantly, move the add at the top off the page at least until you are on page one for a while and move that external link in the first paragraph way down the page — preferably after your own internal links. I been trying to get my site on first page for some time now and have no luck at all.
I tried a lot of changes updates and read lots of seo articles but cant seems to get it on the first page. I never see any organic search traffic only garbage. I guess I will check again see if things could get any better on pages that will land me on first page of google. I manage to have 1 of my article ranked 1 on google 1st page now. I said luckily cause I have no idea what I did and ever since then have been try to get another of my article on google 1st page but no luck..
Please can you run a check on my site and see what make that particular article unique and what have been doing wrong with other post. Can this be applied to a blog in blogspot? I have tried many tehniques and still my blog is not even on the second page of google. Hey thanks for the tips. I found this very helpful! I appreciate everything you have added to my knowledge base. Admiring the time and effort you put into your blog and detailed information you offer. I am going to bookmark your website. You have great tips that I can use for my clients.
I hear that backlinks are the number one thing to getting ranked on the first page of Google. Thanks for sharing such a wonderful information. I was missing few of them, now definitely I will be using this on my blog. You could add internet Vista to the bucket list, they have the capabilities to monitor a website though.
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I try everything but no change on the my rank. If there anyway to check my website and can you tell me what I am doing wrong. I am very very greatly appreciated. Hi Frank, what keywords are you trying to rank for? You have some on page optimisation issues — no Headings or heading H1, H2, H3, etc structure. Meta descriptions and titles are over-optimized too many words. Use the outline above to guide you in fixing these pages.
If you would like some more detailed help, Frank, send me an email using the contact quote form on the site and I would be happy to help you. First how do you ever expect anyone to share this article? That is next but I have two key questions. This question is more about the mechanics of the copy. But the website now holding the 1 spot has all her copy showing in reader view.
It would seem there is something blocking the safari browser from seeing there is more to read on my page, so I assume Google may not be detecting all that I have on my front page. Sorry I forgot to tell you David, and this will lead to question 3…this website is a new URL from my original one. My original site, non-Wordpress, is on page 2. But here is my question finally…. How reliable is a redirection for passing on page authority and will Google deindex every page about of them once the front page is a redirect?
Your H1 tags are correct — you want it to be the title of your article and you want your keyword to appear once in the title and once in the description. Have you tested on any other devices? It may be a setting in one of your plugins Jet Pack comes to mind or the theme itself. It may be some edits that you have made to the css. I would need to see the back end of your WP site to figure out what the rendering issue is on iPad Safari.
Provided there are no penalties, a permanent redirect is the recommended strategy by Google. You will receive some benefit, but not all. I would consider a couple of other options:. Given the authority of the old site, you could create a high class micro site for lead capturing — have it as a second funnel of traffic and enquiries. If you do redirect instead, try and communicate with Webmasters who are pointing to the old site and ask them to update their link the good quality links to the new site. Which ever way you go, I would look to doing months of solid link building using on ly high quality links for your new site.
Links that are Penguin proof and that give you a long term boost in the search engines. I sympathise with you having to re-vamp your site, but often it gives the whole marketing of your business a new lease on life. You can rank with images and you can definitely use Social Media to promote your images and your pages. Incorporating an on site SEO strategy with some good off site link building and a social media strategy would be a great way to generate new traffic to the new site.
Looks like you have done a hell lot of research on Google ranking and indexing factors. Well Thanks for sharing such great article on how to rank on google. I have seen many bloggers making the mistake of not targeting Right keyword. Great on page optimisation, David.
Is this how to make internal links manually one by one or can also use the tools auto link. Your Page Speed How to cope with the size of the photo, while my website does require a large-sized photo. Its best to create your internal links manually when you are placing them in the content itself. You could try tinypng. David, I run a blog. Is it too late to change existing posts to fit your guide? Thank you for sharing. Btw, i have some problem about SEO on my blog.
Would you inform me how to customize it on blogger? Using bold and italic keywords are also necessary. Thanks for this fabulos post.. In the last year a new site appear, which I can guarantee, that does not follow half of the recommendation every SEO expert will apply, but for some reason, it ranks 1st in the most trafficked keywords, and growing. I analyzed their backlinks, the complete site code, etc.
My website rank drop overnight i was in first page on google for daycare furniture and daycare supplies. My host gave me the code to put on. No problem, Happy to do that for you. It should be there on the first page. If not, I can call Google and ask them to bump it up a few spots or you. If you do use one, I think Yoast is pretty good. Genesis Framework is even better! I have posted this one before at google forum and very thankful to all of the members there for the tips on how to place my website on the first page once it search for a certain keywords.
I have done most of the advice what was suggested to me, but still Im lagging behind the search to 5th page. Steve, glad you found it helpful.
75% of people will never scroll past the first page on a Google search. But the average-joe website owner doesn't have the power to rank on the first page of Google for the best keywords. . Here's a simple comparison to explain the difference: Instead of putting all your eggs in one basket for “SEO Guide,” create more. Can I get your website or page to rank on the first page of Google? in Googles eyes and in the eyes of your website visitors, follow these simple steps. That means don't go putting in dashes, dots and other symbols in your URL I held number one position for “makeup artist Toronto” for 10 years until Google Penguin!.
Also and this is very important if you want to rank — your home page does not show me what a user would have come there for — the product. Be sure to put a quality image of what you are offering on the home page. Yes, speed is critical — but so is user intent.
Google measures page speed as a ranking factor, but even more important, Google measures time on site. If a user comes to your site from Google and then heads back to Google 10 seconds later, Google sees this and assumes your site was no good for whatever query the user entered in to its search. So, you have to strike a balance. One decent, light-weight image, along with a very clear call to action or offer can make a world of difference.
Give me a shout if you need a hand. The question of this generation seems to be: There are tons of ways to start getting your content to rank on Google, with basics like setup and how to use Google Search Console tools to more advanced strategies like amount of new content posted and meta tags. These strategies are important and will get you a lot of the way there.
However, when your organization or brand is in a competitive niche, you might find that getting onto the top of the front page of Google feels next to impossible. As you may have already intuitively realized from your own search habits, this study proves that the vast majority of Google search users will click on the top three results for any given search, with a few percent going to those further down the list. Almost nobody clicks through to the second page, even if relevant search results on those pages would help them.
They trust Google to give them the best results for their search on the first page, so rather than clicking through to a second page, most users are more likely to adjust or amend their search query. Remember that Google wants to show off your content if it helps their users. NY Times, Buzzfeed, Amazon… or with a lot of backlinks from authority domains. This article is about moving up on Google, so if you are struggling to get noticed by Google at all check out the articles above first and come back when you have a few months of ranking data.
When you measure your results you will find that you are more able to control what you are producing. If you are in control then you can change the outcome, so keep this in mind as you use your data to measure your performance. If your website is trying to kick an authority domain off the top spot, give some real thought to whether you truly believe that your site can do that.
For some of the content aggregate sites, it is totally doable to kick off sites like Wikipedia, Quora or reddit. If you are trying to smash your way to 1 in the same space as a killer like Amazon, Buzzfeed, the BBC or the NY Times then you had better bring a pretty big hammer cos you might be bashing away at that nail for a long time.
First step is getting on the first page.
You need to do your keyword research and know what you want to rank for and which users searches will most benefit from your result. Your content must be useful, relevant, up to date and highly enticing to click. Making sure that Google knows about your up to date content is the first step to getting on their radar. After a few weeks of your content being online and obviously ruthlessly promoting it through other sites, social media etc. Turn on the toggles for position and impressions, and then on impressions rank by volume biggest to smallest.