Where can I improve on my SEO?

[GoQuickly]

I'm developing out this site for a client.

http://x.co/Ixyy

I can't seem to get past page 2 in most of our keyword searches.

What gives?

Donations going to those who post good tips!


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Most of the sites ahead of us are mainly images and very SEO UNfriendly in my aspect.

Keywords i'm searching in google:
Auto Title Loans Phoenix - Phoenix Title Loans - Chandler Title Loans - Title Loans Chandler

 

[Namworld]

I know first thing that I wouldn't request for help for a client's project on a public forum. Just for the sake of the slight odds of them finding out.

I love the "what gives?" in association with your avatar's expression. Maybe it's because I haven't slept yet and it's 7 am, but at the risk of sounding ridiculous myself, that made me laugh.

On the other hand, I'm probably too tired to look at these issues. But here is what I got:

First thing I notice is the long title tag which probably doesn't help because it's stuffed with terms not related to your keywords. And although using many landing pages is not aesthetic, I noticed the main page is optimized for all the keywords. That's a hard thing to do to optimize the first page of a website for all the possible search terms because it focus on many things instead of one.

On the other hand, even if many page might be better optimized individually than a single main page, they'll look strange to customers compared to one page.

Guess you have to choose your priorities or add a lot of link juice to that homepage.

 

[ThisWebGuy]

Seo

I would suggest using SEOmoz if you don't already they have some great tools and a new app which really helps with SEO it does cost money but I think its worth it. Depends if you get enough business really.

This-Web-Guy

 

[GoQuickly]

I've lowered down the title tag to 60 chars, but the keywords are right in the front of it - Auto Title Loans Phoenix.

also.

<meta name="keywords" content="Auto title loans Phoenix, arizona title loan, arizona title loans, cash loans phoenix" />

<meta name="description" content="Auto Title Loans Phoenix | Providing title loans for over 15 years by Sunhaven Financial | Instant over the phone approval - Cash in hand!" />

<h1>Auto title loans in Phoenix</h1>

It's also within the body a couple times.

Should be doing well on that term.

 

[Namworld]

looking at it, seems the amount of competition might cause you some problems. Correcting the title tag should help a bit. Try other common factors which are said to influence rankings.

- Get links with the proper keywords anchor text
- Speed the website up: compress the content sent
- Put the unimportant stuff at bottom: send the javascript at bottom preferably, they push the important text downward. Javascript should be placed at bottom most of the time.

That should boost it up further.

Even if you do everything you can to get it at it's best, there's a point where it won't improve anymore. Number of links and anchor text from quality websites is probably going to be the major factor past that point

 

[bgmv]

YOu need links my friend:

Your site has 84 inlinks while the number 1 ranked site has about 400+, I know quality over quantity but most of your links are coming from the same site...you need some high PR links

 

[enlytend]

You have a lot of competition and the couple I looked at were larger, more established sites with good link profiles. If it were my client, I'd start by focusing on on Local Search first, by which I mean optimizing for Google/Yahoo/Bing local. You want to get in that Google "7-pack" for relevant searches. Very different game than standard SEO, but it's a good strategy for this kind of situation and it's perfect for local businesses.

Aside from that:

- More links and more VARIETY of links, relevant but varied anchor text
- Fix the duplicate (and near-duplicate) page titles
- Put some ALT attributes on your images
- Fix your canonical issues
- Don't hammer on one keyword - there IS such a thing as "over optimization".
- More content

 

[labrocca]

1. Start with validating your code.
http://validator.w3.org

2. Work on strong relative site links.

3. Try some tools http://www.seomoz.org/tools

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1. Start with validating your code.
http://validator.w3.org

2. Work on strong relative site links.

3. Try some tools http://www.seomoz.org/tools

 

[bgmv]

You have a lot of competition and the couple I looked at were larger, more established sites with good link profiles. If it were my client, I'd start by focusing on on Local Search first, by which I mean optimizing for Google/Yahoo/Bing local. You want to get in that Google "7-pack" for relevant searches. Very different game than standard SEO, but it's a good strategy for this kind of situation and it's perfect for local businesses.

Aside from that:

- More links and more VARIETY of links, relevant but varied anchor text
- Fix the duplicate (and near-duplicate) page titles
- Put some ALT attributes on your images
- Fix your canonical issues
- Don't hammer on one keyword - there IS such a thing as "over optimization".
- More content

completely agree with the local seo approach

 

[arnoldsmithh]

Put targeted keywords in meta tafs and also use them in title and description and then make some backlinks in form of keyword link or you can say hyperlink.

 

[1john2004]

http://www.checkpagerank.net/link_building_services