google new SEO rules

I didn't get to see the website but I thought this was funny.

A lot of people don't put enough work and want high ranking or millions of dollars by sending out emails. It trips me out.

It's like doing 10 situps and eating whatever they want and asking why they're not getting a six pack. :rolleyes:

I'm not the SEO expert, i hired someone from this forum, orpaz.

He said he's making backlinks.

I was just wondering what I could do, because its been a month and i haven't even cracked top 1000 under the keyword i hired him for. (what is insurance)

I think you'd be better off asking your questions in the SEO forum.

I have no idea who's lying to you and who isn't. My experience, with SEO questions specifically, has been that I've gotten the best advice in other places.

Oh, and Caveat Emptor!

First off, your layout is so old school joomla and really awful. I'm speaking nothing more than a user experience stand point right now. It looks like a highschooler made the website, and it's unorganized.

Get a real website made, or learn your way around joomla much better. Use a theme that already exists so you can learn better.

No.. They aren't lying, just unskilled, at least most that I see.

The ones that advertise it, usually advertise backlinks... backlinks that are very low quality. I have only seen a FEW people on this board that are actually very good about building backlinks.

I had a top 3 ranking website for cheap health insurance a while back, not sure if they're still up there... anyway it was hard work, and REALLY took a lot more than just blasting out backlinks in some software.

I do web design for clients all over, you don't need to tell me what your readers want, I already know much more of what they want than you do! LOL. No offense.. Your current website is simple.. but it isn't simple in a good way it is simple in an unorganized, cluttered, awful looking way.

Check out the yootheme templates, those are all pretty good... or you can just search free joomla templates and you will be much better off than the garbage you're using now. Another problem is it looks like you don't know how to set up the front page format. If you want a blog style, you need it set up that way instead of pulling all the different module positions like you are.

Just search for free templates, and free tutorials. You'll be in a lot better shape.

As for the SEO.. I'd suggest YOU not try doing anything until you learn more about it, else you will end up being further off than you are now.

To give you an idea on when you can rank for "what is insurance"... you'd be looking 6-12 months even if using a professional service or firm. If you went with Fathom, you would be spending 5-7K/mo and waiting for 12 months for any kind of results. THAT is how competitive insurance is. Even if you leave SEO alone for just 1 week in that niche, you get left behind.

IT takes MUCH much more than hiring someone to spam out some backlinks.

No, adwords does not help your site. It is a different algorithm that is unrelated.

Bounce rate, in my opinion is a factor in ranking. I don't think it is a major factor though.

I think you mean well, but your outlook on SEO is misguided but partially true.
Another misguided soul. It isn't about good content, it isn't about unique content... it is about RELEVANT content. So many people misunderstand the Panda update and are so stuck behind because they refuse to see another path besides popular opinion. This is why I stopped hanging out in the SEO part of the forum. Too many people that REALLY don't know what they're doing, that refuse to see another way of doing things.

THIS response is the most irritating because it is pure lies. You either have no idea about SEO, or you just listen to the line of ignorance speaking on the subject.

Let's break this down so new members and browsers don't take your advice.

1.) Changing from Joomla to wordpress, or Drupal to wordpress is something that doesn't make sense. Wordpress is minor leagues my friend, the others are in the big leagues. I know... most of you get the perception that wordpress is the best, but it isn't, by far. Wordpress might be the only one your brain can grasp, but that doesn't mean it is the best. Wordpress might be easy for you and others who don't have the attention span or capability of caring more about their websites, but that doesn't make it better.

2.) Google DOES NOT LOVE WORDPRESS. Wordpress is originally, and at heart, meant to be a BLOG! What does Google REALLY LOVE? Updated, fresh, RELEVANT content. Not wordpress... Google doesn't care whether you use a CMS or not. Google doesn't care if you use wordpress, drupal, Joomla, Magento, prestashop, etc.

3.) Plugins and on page optimization... this is where you truly show how uneducated you are on the matter... Joomla, you use a couple buttons, and your website is SEF. You essentially have the same options as wordpress, WITHOUT ANY PLUGINS!

4.) Most IM'ers will agree only that it's easier. The ones that say wordpress is easier to rank, are out of their mind. A lot of what you said is total BS and entirely untrue. Just because you're only capable of using wordpress doesn't mean that it is the best.

I acknowledged that

Thanks

its okay, no problem here.

But for this part

Where can I learn about this or what should i do for onpage SEO?

Thanks, I'll give these a read.

If you have anymore advice please feel free to share, I'd be happy if you take a look at the site and give me any feedback.

Curious as to why?

One thing that took me a long time to learn about SEO (not sure why) was how important it is to have a large site that targets a lot of different keywords.

You should be dividing your site into as many related niches as possible, then begin building quality content for each related niche. You should also target less competitive long tailed keywords.

I am not an SEO expert, in fact all I know about SEO is what I have done on my own site. And so far only 2 moderatley competitive keywords are on page 1. But that tells me I'm doing something right as all my pages continue to move up the SERPS.

It takes A LOT of work, because ideally you want each page to have as much "charisma" as possible. You want a variety of links pointing as pages all over your site so google learns to trust the entire site and not just the homepage.

Use both text links and image links (or make sure your SEO guy is using both).

Once you have your site divided into as many related keywords as possible, then begins the article writing process. It could take as many as 1500 articles and 20 high trust rank links to get your site ranked. You want as many social media accounts as possible. You want the best content you can get on your site and so far I'm honestly not seeing any of this.

I'm not sure when you began doing SEO on the site but realize it will take a lot of time before google begins to associate trust to your site. I remember reading somewhere it can take between 2-6 years to really get a site (this competitive) situated how you want.

Although it will mostly depend on what YOU know and not your SEO guys. If you don't know anything about SEO, you really have no idea whether your SEO guy is even good. This is the main reason I read about SEO everyday because there are so many people out there that just want to get paid and probably do not give 2 ****s whether your site gets banned or not. I have seen some SEO guys charge enormous fees just to spam the hell out of nonrelated blogs. Its a total waste of money so make sure you learn SOMETHING about SEO.

Do not be one of those website owners that just pays for backlinks over and over and you wind up with a ton of links but the site itself performs like garbage.

SEO is a very tedious thing, so be patient, get your feet wet at least a little bit about what SEO really is, and if you keep working at it and never give up at some point you should definitely begin to see results.

good luck - Red

I've never had any problems with any of my wordpress sites because I've taken these pre-cautionary steps:

First off, use wppadlock to secure any site and will make it harder for hackers to break into your site easily.

1.Updating WordPress and plug-ins to the latest version – Get the latest security updates.
2.Disable directory browsing – prevent people or bots from accessing site directories that do not have index files.
3.Set strong passwords for your WordPress administrative login
4.Configure robots.txt file to disallow search engine robots from indexing subfolder contents.
5.Set file and folder permissions to better protect files from being written to.
6.Hide version of WordPress that your site is running. If hackers do not know what version of WordPress you are using, it can make it more difficult to exploit known security holes with that version.
7.Set up captchas on contact forms, comments forms, and login.
8.Password protect the wp-admin folder. This will set up a login screen to access the WordPress admin login page, which will then require another login to access the WP administration area.
9.Restrict access to wp-config.php. This is a key configuration file which includes database access information.
10.Installing the following WordPress plugins:
a.WordPress File Monitor – Monitor files under your WordPress installation for changes. When a change occurs, you will be notified via email.
b.WP-MalWatch – Performs a nightly scan of WordPress looking for evidence of malware.
c.TAC (Theme Authenticity Checker) – Scan theme files for potentially malicious or unwanted code.
d.Audit Trail – Keeps track of what is going on in your site by monitoring and logging administration functions.
e.WP Secure – Performs 23 basic security activities and also runs malware scan.