How to push up your site for free

[LockMonster]

Hi.
What ways are best to push up the natural listing myself ?
No seo's contact me please, I get far to many that promise the worls and can't do it !!!! Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

[jtoelle]

build backlinks

[Adie]

Originally Posted by LockMonster

Hi.
What ways are best to push up the natural listing myself ?
No seo's contact me please, I get far to many that promise the worls and can't do it !!!! Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

I remember I once purchased a guide in this forum and I think that was "40-day marketing guide". Find it because it is best for you and could aswer all your questions..

[JHC81]

Make backlinks is the answer, if you don't want to do it yourself hire someone for few bucks an hour and they can do it for you.

[navyseal]

Yeah I agree!

Apply a online job for a position of seo.

Once you already experience it, use it in your own niche market.

[LockMonster]

Not sure if my last message came here?
Anyway here it is again.
Is this correct, backlinks are if another website puts a link on theirs to my site ?
I just checked mine on a backlink checker, it says I have 848 on it, is that ok ?
Can I do it myself, how ?

[jhonsean]

Originally Posted by LockMonster

Hi.
What ways are best to push up the natural listing myself ?
No seo's contact me please, I get far to many that promise the worls and can't do it !!!! Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

No SEO's No Backlinks. So What things you can do to put your site up in google? you need quality backlinks to gain this you also need SEO's.

[Jryan774]

i agree with all above that backlinks are key, but if you have 800+ links and aren't ranking well then I would imagine you are in a really competitive niche or your site isn't well optimized?

[LockMonster]

I know my sites are not optimised very well to be honest, I let a guy do it from scratch, it's not great. I never know if it is because there is no demand for my stuff or to much competeion ??
they are lockmonster.co.uk & hooverbagstore.co.uk

[Jryan774]

Originally Posted by LockMonster

I know my sites are not optimised very well to be honest, I let a guy do it from scratch, it's not great. I never know if it is because there is no demand for my stuff or to much competeion ??
they are lockmonster.co.uk & hooverbagstore.co.uk

are you monitoring site traffic via analytics, do you know what your bounce rate is etc might not be a case of traffic, if you are getting plenty of visitors and not converting sales then you might want to look at your site design, flow and customer experience. Then maybe re-design?

[LockMonster]

Bounce rate is 48% average on recent months.

[JonWebContent]

You need some content on there (lockmonster site). The site layout is not great and could be improved.

It looks way too keyword-stuffed. Is there any content on there that isn't one of the keywords you are targeting?

Spread out the categories more. There's far too many categories on the home page. Stick to just a few keywords on the home page.

Even if people click on your site, you're not really enticing them to buy. Tell me something about your business on the home page. All you are doing is throwing up a bunch of products and saying "here you go, buy it".

[JonWebContent]

One other thing on the keyword stuffing.........

You use the keyword "locks" 5 times in your title tag. You shouldn't use it more than 2-3 times (if that). Put everything together in some way but you don't need to list every specific type of lock you sell on your home page title tag. Put them in the title tag on their specific pages. And make the title tag a little more catchy and not so long.

[scott g]

There are so many ways and SOOOOOO many threads in this SubForum that answer this question I can't believe you asked it.... Did you scroll down page ONE of the Adsense/SEO forum before you posted this thread?

Simple answer. On-site and Off-site optimization. Both are free (if you know how to do it).

Backlinks seems to be the majority of everyone's votes because that is correct...! If you want to learn how and where to get backlinks read a couple posts.

CHEERS!

[LockMonster]

But if my site is not very good, the 'Brute force....' might not be any good, if I could do it and it's a free trial and i notice more traffic, it might be ok ?

[Jryan774]

Originally Posted by LockMonster

But if my site is not very good, the 'Brute force....' might not be any good, if I could do it and it's a free trial and i notice more traffic, it might be ok ?

I dont think software or traffic is your immediate issue, the fact is if 100 new people came to your site, how many of them would a) think it looks trust worthy to buy from and b)how many would find it easy to navigate etc

as its been touched on your site is just too cluttered and too complex, also doesnt look like the safest of sites to buy from. I would sort your site our and tidy it up, before pushing for more visits. Also look at the tags and keywords as advised.

[LockMonster]

I just thought I'd get more specific ans here and I was to lazy to troll through loads and loads !

[LockMonster]

My mate has a great site and his web man said I could have a similar version, optimised well etc, but I don't want to keep spending money money money if it won't work !

[Jryan774]

Well thats your call, either stick with your current turnover or speculate to accumulate, also there are plenty of ways and people on here to do a great site for not a lot of money.
You could get a great looking site for around £200 id say.

[LockMonster]

That is cheap, I thought you might be looking at a lot more for a good one ?

[Josh989]

Build backlinks and use seo, this will help give it a week or two for it to take affect. Good luck

[russells]

The best way to push your site up the SERPS is simple:

1) Keyword optimise your site

2) Build quality, relevant links back to your site.

Voila - that's SEO.

~Russ

[tritrain]

Not just any backlinks, but backlinks from sites/pages with relevant content (to your site content).

Go where your market is and try to get backlinks/traffic from those locations.

Think like a potential visitor.

[LockMonster]

I'm sure the backlinks are there like i say. But I feel by the way everyone talks is that I need a new optimised site also.

[LockMonster]

So, now to price an optimised site also!!

[LockMonster]

Just had all three of my sites re-done, a new web designer, ranks and natural hits are much much better, actually selling items ok now, but could do with more, who can't!

[linkassistant]

Originally Posted by LockMonster

I know my sites are not optimised very well to be honest, I let a guy do it from scratch, it's not great. I never know if it is because there is no demand for my stuff or to much competeion ??
they are lockmonster.co.uk & hooverbagstore.co.uk

Hi there, thanks for revealing your websites, it makes the discussion much easier and focused!

Here are a few considerations that might help you:

1. The strong point of both websites is that you aim at social media engagement. The social media buttons are well-placed, and it's great you've created special accounts for your businesses. So just work hard on consistently building your following. Read about social media marketing, think about the ways you can drive targeted traffic to your websites and improve loyalty of your customers. That's very important, and that's expertise beyond SEO.

2. I find both websites decent from the point of view of on page SEO. The content, design and usability are absolutely fine. I wouldn't be much focused on redesign.

3. Judging from the title, description and keywords set up, you have a number of keywords you target to rank high for in organic search. Check out your rankings for each of the keywords. If you lag behind your competitors (like you're not in top50), consider another tour of keyword research:
- find long-tail keywords that are often searched for but face little competition (Google AdWords Keyword Tool, for a start)
- find keywords that bring traffic to your website (Google Analytics)

4. The most important part is link building. Learn whatever you can find about white-hat link building. If you do it yourself, best options are writing guest posts to other people websites; submitting your articles to quality places like squidoo and hub pages (those are article directories, but best ones).
Use your keywords as anchors.

These are the main steps. You can outsource any step of your online presence optimization, but I think you should first have a clear picture of best practices yourself.

Hope this helps

[eezymoney]

I think your sites look great! You just need to keep adding good unique content to the product/category pages and build related links pointing to them.

I sell printer ink in the UK and wondering if you could let me know your designer and rough cost to produce sites like these?

Cheers, John

Originally Posted by LockMonster

Just had all three of my sites re-done, a new web designer, ranks and natural hits are much much better, actually selling items ok now, but could do with more, who can't!

[mshmandal]

What is important is improving page rank?

[dminorfmajor]

It seems everyone remembers that "Backlinks" are good for ranking up your site but I think a lot of people forget how important On-Page SEO is.

Try ranking a site about billiard tables for the keyword "Hot dogs for sale." You'll have a rough time because billiard tables have crap to do with hot dogs, for sale even!

Good on-page SEO compliments quality backlinks in ways that no one should EVER forget.

[dminorfmajor]

Originally Posted by mshmandal

What is important is improving page rank?

Your PR (page rank), age of domain, quality of backlinks, etc etc, all help factor in where your site ranks for keywords you and your natural backlinkers have chosen.

[LockMonster]

Thanks for comments, helps a lot. Keep em coming!

[eezymoney]

Don't know if you missed my post Lockmonster - just wondering if you could point me in the direction of your web designer?

The sites he has done for you are really good.

[Mr Lim]

LSI Content and On-Page are certainly where you can save half dozen of your cost.

IMO, backlinks are optional depends on your competitor.

I can rank a low competitor with just a few articles, but it takes a little time.

[Newbieee]

You sound frustrated.

Anyways, SEO is free, if you do it yourself.
Media buys are paid methods, even if you manage it yourself.

So when you hear people saying seo is free or Earn money without any money through seo is true to a certain extend that is if you do it yourself.

And even then you need to hav a budget like any other business, like pay for auto responders, etc.

If you want to do SEO yourself then this is a good thread i recommend.

The EXACT strategy i use to rank for ANY KEYWORD!

But you must be ready to do SOME WORK. =)

[gel code]

This goes to shows that content is king ! Well done a great turn around enjoy !