help and advice for newbies and people who need a kick up the backside in 2009

[fizzbird]

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I would never buy .org for seo purposes - ask yourself how many domains have you seen in the natural listings with the domain extension .org ?

That's intereseting - although .org.uk does OK I agree that .org doesn't. Any explanation on this by chance?

BTW: you should be commended on what you are doing here - not really my thing but good to see someone trying to help people

[max99]

as .org.uk is treated as a .uk domain and thus relevant to the UK audience, .org is treated as worldwide so isnt as relevant

same with prefering a .co.uk over .com for UK sites

[rootofunity]

This thread keeps getting better and better. Here's a question - the 2 sample sites that have been setup are gadget's shoes and clothing, and robaldinho123's platformshoes. The first is static and the second has datafeeds. They are quite basic sites that show how quickly a specific site can be constructed.

So let's assume they both had the same content, which would get the best result - static or datafeed site? I wonder if there is a shopper preference?

[smingle]

That's intereseting - although .org.uk does OK I agree that .org doesn't. Any explanation on this by chance?

BTW: you should be commended on what you are doing here - not really my thing but good to see someone trying to help people

Hi Fizzbird,

As Max has pointed out, google uk seems to favour .co.uk and .org.uk over the majority of extensions so it is always advisable to choose one of those 2 extensions if available.

Thanks for your kind words, there is plenty more to come too

[gadget]

I wouldn't suggest anyone go down the route I've taken. It's a very specific trial to see if a single page can rank well for the keywords in the domain. At some point Google will say, that's a rubbish site/page and throw it out. I just want to see what happens.

I'm going to do it for another sector too so there's something to compare it with.

What's everyone else done?

[smingle]

This thread keeps getting better and better. Here's a question - the 2 sample sites that have been setup are gadget's shoes and clothing, and robaldinho123's platformshoes. The first is static and the second has datafeeds. They are quite basic sites that show how quickly a specific site can be constructed.

So let's assume they both had the same content, which would get the best result - static or datafeed site? I wonder if there is a shopper preference?

I personally think the static site would do better in the SERPS, but on the flip side I think the shopper would prefer a datafeed as it offers alot more choice to the shopper.

I personally never use datafeeds, as I believe that the website could be "seen" more clearly as an affiliate site to the search engines, and we know how much google dislikes affiliate sites, and it looks set that google will try and alienate as many affiliate sites as possible in the future.

All imo of course.

So who took birthday flowers then ? come on own up lol pm me if you prefer !

[smingle]

Ok here you go : the free seo guide I have been promising - free seo guide | seo advice | smingle

This only covers on page seo, as I decided to break it down into 2 sections to not confuse people who are totally new to this.

Enjoy and hope you find it useful

[mrjibbles]

Excellent

The No space in the meta keywords is something ive never heard before so something i will be certainly doing from now on

Rob

[actually]

great guide, just need a good domain to get started - these domains on this thread go so fast.

[hairycornflakes]

Ok here you go : the free seo guide I have been promising - free seo guide | seo advice | smingle

This only covers on page seo, as I decided to break it down into 2 sections to not confuse people who are totally new to this.

Enjoy and hope you find it useful

good stuff smingle

its all such simple things, but you gotta remember to do them

so do you get a lot of traffic to wipe-debts? must have a LOT of incoming links?

[hairycornflakes]

iv never heard of the no spaces thing! defo make a difference?

[e-tailwebstores]

Great thred :

Its even got me buying a few domain names to promote.

Anyway good luck to anyone that is just starting out....

[Stuart]

With the correct onsite SEO and domain name you can rank on page 1 with only a couple of incoming links.

Not saying you can achieve this all the time but I have with 1 particular product that does get searched for and does sell

[smingle]

Excellent

The No space in the meta keywords is something ive never heard before so something i will be certainly doing from now on

Rob

Yep def worth doing

[smingle]

great guide, just need a good domain to get started - these domains on this thread go so fast.

Glad you find it useful

Feel free to email me, and I will see what I can do with regards to a domain for you as they do go within 2 mins of me posting them on here lol