I'm So in Need of Help

by AmberK
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Hey guys, I've been searching this forum for a few weeks and decided to sign up to try to get a little help/advice.

I started a blog 3 months ago and have been trying to absorb all the acronyms and concepts ever since.

I think I understand SEO for the most part, even though I still have a ton to learn.

My primary concern right now is that Google doesn't seem to be caching my homepage. It's caching all my other pages darn near instantly, I show up when i do a "site:mydomain.com" However, when I do cache:mydomain.com there's no results.

Some people will say this isn't a big deal, but there's been some issues with potential sponsors for my site due to this. I've added the robot text /allow and when I look at the source I see that.

Another question I have, and this is probably a very stupid one, with SEO and keywords - not all my articles have my main keyword in them, but they are "related" to it, is that bad? I'm not even sure if I'm doing any of this right lol.
#blonde #moments
  • Profile picture of the author friendclk
    Well if you are trying to rank for a certain keyword, then you will want to use that keyword in your articles, unless, you have already used the keyword enough times on other parts of that page. Enough times would be appearing between 2-4% of your total words on the page. You can find out what % your keyword appears by using a 'keyword density checker', just type that in google.
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  • Profile picture of the author n_touch
    You want to have your main keyword in there. Just being on the same subject is not the same thing. You have to remember the search engine only works off of what you tell it. Not inferences.

    Now as far as you not seeing your main page. When you are checking are you also checking site:www.yourdomain.com and not just site:yourdomain.com? I am not sure if that really makes a difference but you could have it set that a different way on your blog settings. Hope you get it worked out.
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  • Profile picture of the author xylement
    yea, n_touch is right... there are difference with the www and without... perhaps maybe you can try and see?
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    • Profile picture of the author patriciaevansss
      All said tips and answers are right. But let me add just one more thing. What type of Blogging Platform are you using? I think the "Canonical Tag" has something to do with it. If a Blog has this type of Tag, Search Engine see it as a copy or a sub domain of the original one.
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