I won't be buying anything . LolExactly what Matt said.
& please.. I beg you. Do not buy backlinks from some random guy of fiverr.. If possible don't buy them at all.
My problem is I don't write the html as it's a free script install so i really have to work with what I have got......Just stick to the standards and use clean code, meaningful titles etc. SEO is a vague term. Good content and clean, semantically correct webpage code will usually do you far more good than owt else. Speed has become an issue these days where the search engines are concerned too, so things like optimising images and making your code mobile friendly help too. If it has content worth a toss and the search engines can index it cleanly, it'll generally sort itself. With regard the HTML side of things:
http://www.w3schools.com/tags/default.asp
Also read up on accessibility. Simple things like alt tags for images, for example, where possible.
Validator for checking code:
https://validator.w3.org/unicorn/
Comes in handy for reference, to find out what things need tweaking. Some suggestions you can ignore though.
Google's, (link to downloadable PDF), website search engine optimisation guide:
http://www.google.co.uk/webmasters/docs/search-engine-optimization-starter-guide.pdf
No NO its on a paid for server. Its with Host Gator. I have a reseller account.So it's something like a free-hosting site? If so, pretty much anything you do won't help you much. Do you have to use their interface to create pages, or can you upload pages of your own? A clearer idea of exactly what you're working with would help.
You'll be fighting an uphill battle with something like that, btw. Not meaning to sound pessimistic, but breaking people away from either their routine or what they know/recognise isn't easy. It's a thankless task generally requiring lots of time and work, which can show little to no benefit on many an occasion, usually more oft than not.
After having sat on a couple of web sites for some time now its fairly obvious I am getting no traffic to them.Another tip DON'T EVER employ a SEO company to improve your ranking. Most of their techniques will get you de-ranked or dropped by the algorythmn's the search engines use to rate the relevance of a website.
The days of white on white text blocks at the end to spam the search engines are long gone.
As Matt says, just put a honest descriptive page together, try to keep the bells and whistles reliant on javascript libraries to a minimum and make sure it looks ok on a variety of computers (win, mac, android, and browsers firefox/ie/opera).
TL,DR; SEO is a scammers game. No matter how the company selling it tries to dress it up.
What's a back link... what's a domain authority...not set meta tags..I haven't looked into it but have you any back links? whats your domain authority? have you set your meta tags / keywords / description?
Have you considered other sales channels connected to your site such as google shopping, ebay, amazon etc..?
Another tip DON'T EVER employ a SEO company to improve your ranking. Most of their techniques will get you de-ranked or dropped by the algorythmn's the search engines use to rate the relevance of a website.
What absolute rubbish, I do web design in my spare time and have charged clients for my time and effort, my mate runs a very successful web design company, he spends a lot of time updating skills and going seminars about the direction SEO is going in. He is very good at what he does and regularly posts evidence of his work getting clients of his from page 2 of google to within the top three on page 1, he has many clients that pay him monthly to keep on top of things and make sure they are near the top.
SOO, I do recommend paying people to improve your ranking but make sure you research the company, some out there are charging to top dollar with a great sales pitch but a quick google will give you plenty of reasons not to use them.
he has many clients that pay him monthly to keep on top of things and make sure they are near the top.
https://support.google.com/webmasters/topic/4617736?hl=en&ref_topic=4589290Anyone clued up on SEO for websites.
Just need to know where to get basic info from that is current. I have coffee cup software website insight and image mapper but need a starting point.
You have to be *MASSIVELY* careful who you would entrust to do this as PageRank (the google algorythmn used to rank pages) picks up the vast majority of attempts to raise a page, and it is continually updated so that consultant has to be spot up to date or risks going down instead because google etc moved the goalposts again, a point yourself you have acknowledged and ukracer is already encountering.
If someone needs to find out about SEO from a welding forum, they're not equipped to sort the good from the bad, and they're not talking about spending the sort of money a real consultant will cost, so will probably end up with a snake oil salesperson.
They're at this point better off concentrating on making a website that parses cleanly and validates cleanly on the w3.org validator, isn't full of "tricks" that get things massively down ranked by PageRank, submits it to google, and just making a honest site with verbose text descriptions and alt text on image links so the spiders pick them up correctly.
But, absolute rubbish. I think I need a internet holiday again.