Hey everyone,
I am trying to optimize my home page for http://www.homemade-candle-creations.com Yes, I am taking Cricket's classes too and they are awesome! I wouldn't be as far as I am today without them! Just having so much trouble with this elusive search term lol May be you haven't indexed since you changed your page, once Google index you, you will start seeing your page on serp result, it will take time have patience. For the testimonials, you could, perhaps, use coding that will pull just one testimonial to be displayed at random, out of the ones you type in. Perhaps a link beneath that one randomly displayed quote to "see more testimonials"
I got that idea from the owner of this site: http://www.funversity.com/products/arts-amp-crafts-diplomas He has just 1 testimonial showing at the top of each of his pages (category, home, specific products... all have 1 testimonial showing).
I think its an effective use of testimonials, because the viewer is seeing different ones as they browse through the site. He gave me the code at some point. He has (or had) the text of like 60 testimonials typed into his page templates, and then coding pulls just one of them at random to display.
I would think this would HELP with the potential for duplicate content. Cindy,
Thanks, I think that is something that I will do. I had thought of that before, but haven't taken the time to do it yet. That would definitely be a great way to show testimonials on each page without duplicate content. I think I could just use a random html generator or something from my host cpanel. don't stuff content with keyword
*you can link the homepage Url with keyword required as anchor in few of the articles in your site thomass,
Yes, I may have overused my keyword a bit (-: I was desperate to try something! lol But I am going to go back through and rewrite a little. Thank you for reminding me about anchor texting on some of my other pages. For some reason I was not even thinking about that on my own site! Duh! Plus I realized I hadn't changed the title for my home page link on all my other pages to my new home page title, so I'm hoping once all this gets indexed it will help. Use some strong keywords and find that either your keywords can already use on your site duplicate keywords may also create problems like that. If title is problem you write the tittle like this "Handmade Soy Candles" it will cover Handmade Soy Candles and Soy Candles. But selecting the keyword which should be optimize is your choice..... Okay, so I am happy to say that now I am showing up for the term Soy Candles. It's way down on the 46th page of Google, but it's there now. The problem is that it is not the page I am optimizing for that term. It is my "Scented Soy Candles" page.
My home page is optimized for "Soy Candles-Handmade Soy Candles" which, theoretically, should make it show up higher in the serps for "Soy Candles" rather than the other page, or at least in the same ballpark, but it is still nowhere to be found. It has been indexed a few times recently, but still no sign of it. It does, however show up on the first page for "handmade soy candles" and "homemade candles" and "homemade soy candles".
Should I change the title of the "scented soy candles" page? is that page interfering with the other page somehow? I really don't want to change the title though, because it is now on page 7 for "scented soy candles" which receives over 100 searches per day! That's up just recently from page 16.
Anyway, just trying to get this figured out.
Any other ideas??
Just a note: I am still working on some of the suggestions that were made here, so there is also the possibility that once I finish these corrections, it may help. Well, all that work finally paid off! I finally found my page on page 15 of Google for Soy Candles. Not too shabby, and now I have hope that if I just keep tweeking I might be able to compete with the top sites!! Thank you all for your suggestions and feedback. I really appreciate it.
(jumping up and down for joy) Continue to promote your site with the keyword "Soy Candles". It is competitive keyword and due to this your site is down in search result. But can get top position if optimize site properly with this keyword.
I am trying to optimize my home page for http://www.homemade-candle-creations.com Yes, I am taking Cricket's classes too and they are awesome! I wouldn't be as far as I am today without them! Just having so much trouble with this elusive search term lol May be you haven't indexed since you changed your page, once Google index you, you will start seeing your page on serp result, it will take time have patience. For the testimonials, you could, perhaps, use coding that will pull just one testimonial to be displayed at random, out of the ones you type in. Perhaps a link beneath that one randomly displayed quote to "see more testimonials"
I got that idea from the owner of this site: http://www.funversity.com/products/arts-amp-crafts-diplomas He has just 1 testimonial showing at the top of each of his pages (category, home, specific products... all have 1 testimonial showing).
I think its an effective use of testimonials, because the viewer is seeing different ones as they browse through the site. He gave me the code at some point. He has (or had) the text of like 60 testimonials typed into his page templates, and then coding pulls just one of them at random to display.
I would think this would HELP with the potential for duplicate content. Cindy,
Thanks, I think that is something that I will do. I had thought of that before, but haven't taken the time to do it yet. That would definitely be a great way to show testimonials on each page without duplicate content. I think I could just use a random html generator or something from my host cpanel. don't stuff content with keyword
*you can link the homepage Url with keyword required as anchor in few of the articles in your site thomass,
Yes, I may have overused my keyword a bit (-: I was desperate to try something! lol But I am going to go back through and rewrite a little. Thank you for reminding me about anchor texting on some of my other pages. For some reason I was not even thinking about that on my own site! Duh! Plus I realized I hadn't changed the title for my home page link on all my other pages to my new home page title, so I'm hoping once all this gets indexed it will help. Use some strong keywords and find that either your keywords can already use on your site duplicate keywords may also create problems like that. If title is problem you write the tittle like this "Handmade Soy Candles" it will cover Handmade Soy Candles and Soy Candles. But selecting the keyword which should be optimize is your choice..... Okay, so I am happy to say that now I am showing up for the term Soy Candles. It's way down on the 46th page of Google, but it's there now. The problem is that it is not the page I am optimizing for that term. It is my "Scented Soy Candles" page.
My home page is optimized for "Soy Candles-Handmade Soy Candles" which, theoretically, should make it show up higher in the serps for "Soy Candles" rather than the other page, or at least in the same ballpark, but it is still nowhere to be found. It has been indexed a few times recently, but still no sign of it. It does, however show up on the first page for "handmade soy candles" and "homemade candles" and "homemade soy candles".
Should I change the title of the "scented soy candles" page? is that page interfering with the other page somehow? I really don't want to change the title though, because it is now on page 7 for "scented soy candles" which receives over 100 searches per day! That's up just recently from page 16.
Anyway, just trying to get this figured out.
Any other ideas??
Just a note: I am still working on some of the suggestions that were made here, so there is also the possibility that once I finish these corrections, it may help. Well, all that work finally paid off! I finally found my page on page 15 of Google for Soy Candles. Not too shabby, and now I have hope that if I just keep tweeking I might be able to compete with the top sites!! Thank you all for your suggestions and feedback. I really appreciate it.