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SiteMaker and Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) - Part I - Web design & SEO

Web design & SEO — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 22:34:40 +0100

Good guide keep up the good work

SiteMaker and Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) - Part I - Walt

Walt — Fri, 08 Aug 2008 13:48:17 +0100

Hi Chris,

You've certainly given us food for thought. Your comments were passed onto the technical team and we've discussed how to improve on this process. Obviously making changes would then affect those pages already ranked but we can find a solution for that as well.

This does require a bit more discussion to look at how easy or difficult this would be to implement, what implications this might have, and when this could be addressed.

Thanks for raising the query.

SiteMaker and Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) - Part I - Chris

Chris — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 13:22:59 +0100

Correction/clarification on my last comment. The page name is visible in the URL but it is shown as all one word e.g. "www.mysite.com/websitepromotion" Search Engines will not rank this as highly as having separate words separated by "-" or "_" e.g. "www.mysite.com/website_promotion".
Putting "-" or "_" into my page names in SiteMaker is ugly because it then shows these in my menus and it still doesn't work for the URL. When I try and change the name of my page in SiteMaker the syntax "-" or "_" is removed when the name is put into the URL so it still reads as one long word.
How can I have a page URL in SiteMaker like "www.mysite.com/website_promotion" but still have my menus show the page name of "Website Promotion"?

SiteMaker and Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) - Part I - Chris

Chris — Thu, 07 Aug 2008 11:34:55 +0100

Point 1 above says "Your URL (or address) of your page, e.g. www.joeslondontaxis.com, or www.joeslondontaxis.com/taxibooking, etc." How can I use SiteMaker to give my web page a meaningful name like "www.joeslondontaxis.com/taxibooking" currently it only displays numbers in the html version?

SiteMaker and Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) - Part I - Bridget

Bridget — Sat, 14 Jun 2008 07:33:29 +0100

By using the very useful easily understood information enabled me to get my site listed on the first search page of google within 2 weeks of it going live. Many thanks for helping a novice out.

SiteMaker and Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) - Part I - FRED

FRED — Wed, 28 Feb 2007 18:06:14 +0000

What fantastic advise FRED

SiteMaker and Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) - Part I - joe

joe — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 12:31:59 +0000

Keywords should be words or phrases separated by a comma, e.g. "london taxi, west london taxi, hammersmith taxi", etc. 2 or 3 word Keyword phrases may be better (unless you keyword is qutie obscure) as they will be more specific and less competitive. There's more on this in the next article.

SiteMaker and Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) - Part I - Ross

Ross — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 11:10:55 +0000

When adding keywords to the site/page does it make a difference how you list them?
For example putting commas / full stops between each word, or on a new line etc.

SiteMaker and Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) - Part I - joe

joe — Thu, 22 Feb 2007 11:00:27 +0000

Should be a week or so. I started writing it as one article, but it soon became very very big, so thought we'd break it down a bit. When it's done we'll produce it as a PDF download for the product as its something lots of people ask about. Glad you like it.

SiteMaker and Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) - Part I - Basher

Basher — Wed, 21 Feb 2007 22:22:00 +0000

Can't wait for the next blog on this subject. When is it (are they) due?