Questions about creating a page for SEO

[mhardgrove]

Alright so I have been doing some work with the website ShirtSays.com. It does about 500 in organic traffic a month now.

The majority of my traffic comes from this SEO page: Lost Shirts (Which gets a "B" with SEOmoz's Term Targeting Tool

Now I have another SEO page I have created that currently gets a "B+" from the Term Target Tool. It is here: Back to the Future Shirts, but now I have a few questions:

First: It is saying that I don't have ANY mentions of my keyword in the first 100 words - in fact it says that for both SEO pages - why is that? my term is in the first 100 words of the page but perhaps the site structure is screwing this up?

Second, I am using wordpress and noticed that my back to the future page was being blocked from being sent to google for some reason. I fixed this issue and made sure it isn't blocked. It has now been a couple of months and my page still isn't being picked up by google. Any thoughts? I would really like to get this page to google to see how it would do and then try some other types of pages. I am basically using ShirtSays as a learning experience.

So if there is anyone out there I could use some help. I am a graphic designer as well so if you need some banners, buttons or some other design work I can help you out as well - you scratch my back I scratch yours sort of thing.

Please help me to learn what I am doing wrong here. Thank you!

 

[mhardgrove]

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[sonicadam123]

What keyword is it that your targeting? i want to check out in some progs i use

You might be best trying Web CEO, a lot of people use it, there's a free version of it, really good for optimizing your pages!

also there's a firefox plugin called SenSEO which is great for analysing your page for a single keyword

i've just checked your indexed pages in google/yahoo/bing

you can find it by typing site:shirtsays.com into the search engines

here are the links

GOOGLE -
site:shirtsays.com - Google Search [239 pages indexed]

YAHOO -
Site Explorer - Search Results [105 pages indexed]

BING -
site:shirtsays.com - Bing [51 pages indexed]

Bing and Yahoo normally take a lot longer to index your pages which is why your showing much lower indexed pages for them

have you submitted sitemaps to all 3 of them?


btw your t-shirt designs n stuff are really impressive!:D

 

[mhardgrove]

I wish I could take credit for the tshirt designs but the site is just a affiliate portal. Not my designs. But thank you.

I am term targeting "Back to the Future shirts" and I am not ranking at all for it. I haven't submitted a site map to all three yet no.

If you have any ideas why the Back to the Future page isn't even getting listed with google I would love to hear it.

 

[sonicadam123]

have you done a competitor analysis? use a free trial of market samurai or traffic travis they're good for this

Have you geared your site to be optimized around your particular keyword? if not use Web CEO free version and it will help you

When you create back links do you use the keyword in your anchor text?

Also i notice your 301 redirect is set up to redirect to http://shirtSays.com! http://www.shirtsays.com

i'm not sure if that might make a difference at all, but it may confuse search engines

 

[DaSerpent]

Well, there are a few problems with your page.

1) You are keyword spamming the page with "back to the future shirts"

Google doesn't like this anymore and that is one reason why they might not be willing to index your page ( thinking it is a spam site)

2) Your page structure isn't good either.

You have to be more organized. Try not to repeat the same things again and again. Explaining all that isn't possible in this post.

3) Get more backlinks.

There are a lot more issues to be addressed.Drop a PM if you are interested in knowing more.

 

[thebutler]

Sitemaps and more

Make sure you get a proper sitemap set up.

Try to get some social bookmarks for that page.

You can also link to that page from Facebook and tweet something about that specific page.

 

[ePag]

you shouldn't create pages just for SEO or for search engines. Here is what I think that you should do:
- create pages for your visitors, so that they will be able to find the information faster on your web site
- write good and unique content

if you do that, visitors will follow, guaranteed. Focus on user satisfaction, and search engines will also be satisfied.

 

[enlytend]

I'm going to agree with DaSerpent:

1) You are keyword spamming the page with "back to the future shirts"

AKA an "over-optimization penalty". Your usage of your keyphrase on the "Lost" page is much more natural. Do the same here - use the phrase naturally, don't beat your visitors over the head with it.