Can anybody help me with search engine optimization for Red Cowboy? I’d just like to get it to pop up more in local searches on google. For example, “Atlanta + design”, “Buford + design”. Anybody got any knowledge they can share?
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d10
Monday, 26. February 2007 um 8:45 am Uhr
josh- here are several links I’ve found helpful. these pages specifically deal with optimizing a site that uses wp as a backend. if you need any further help with it, i’m here…
http://codex.wordpress.org/Search_Engine_Optimization_for_Wordpress
http://www.boydcreative.net/blogging/10-ways-to-optimize-wordpress-for-more-traffic/
Nicholas
Monday, 26. February 2007 um 10:49 am Uhr
You have to set those as your key words. . you can do that with an HTML tag on the index page of your site. htmlgoodies.com can help you out with that.
d10
Monday, 26. February 2007 um 11:10 am Uhr
Nick is right, but as I understand it, a keyword displayed as text in a page is much more valuable than a keyword in a meta-tag. Google is scary good at recognizing important/significant content, so you need to plug the keywords you want people to find you with all throughout every page of the site.
Arguably the MOST important thing is who links to you and who you link to. The whole concept of the google pagerank is based on this. So like, if an important site links to you, then that boosts your page rank. I gave the site a quick scan and you have good permalink structure for indexing, so I would focus on getting the site linked from important places. You can quickly see who all links to you by google searching
“link:www.redcowboydesigns.com”
(remove the quotes)
anyway, the guy you really need to talk to is ardell – he is a freaking genius at search engine optimization.
but google is really fascinating. people used to put a bunch of keywords on pages the same color as the background just to plug the site more, but google actually makes sure your text isn’t hidden and penalizes you in search results if you are trying to boost your pagerank by dirty tricks like that.
clint
Monday, 26. February 2007 um 9:41 pm Uhr
you can still hide your keywords in your site by giving them a display: none; attribute in your css. Google will still see them, but won’t know that they’re hidden.