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Need Expert SEO Help

by Phil Jacobson
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Please name your price ... Thanks.

I'm looking for someone who is able to make my site SEO friendly and is familiar, hopefully directly with Stompernet's stomping the search engines 2.0 which I am going through now.
Although it is now over 1 year old, the fundamentals of the course material are sound. Since my site is new and needs some basic fix ups, I need someone to make the necessary basic adjustments. I am having trouble keeping up with what needs to be done with html and source code and as such wish to have it outsourced.

These are the areas that I believe I need help with first. If there are other glaring errors, please let me know.

1) URL fix up.
urls are too long and non-seo friendly

2) I want to make sure I don't have duplicate copy.

3) Site Structure
I want to make sure the "first link counts" strategy is in place by reorganising my site structure.

4) I want to make sure there are no error pages.


I'm hoping to find an SEO expert, hopefully a stompernet member as I am following their advice.


GreenTea Japan, The best online Green Tea Shop - Authentic farm direct Japanese green tea.


Many Thanks.

Phil
#expert #seo
  • Profile picture of the author SoftSmart
    My belief is, if you want an expert SEO, become one yourself. Here are my reasons:

    1) No one cares about your site more than you do. Its like being a paid soldier vs one who fight for honour, country, family, blah blah blah!!!

    2) EFFECTIVE SEO takes time and effort. Unless you have big bucks to continue with your SEO for a few months, just learn everything you can. This way you can make gradual improvements that don't cost you $xxx per month. The two sites in my sig are fairly new but I've got them up there in the SERPS on google in my country. This is only after about 3 months.
    3) Everyone claims to be an expert at SEO. Many SEO's use black hat which will eventually get you booted off the search engines (no offense to the SEO's who are really good, I'm sure there are many, but I'm sure they will tell you that it cost alot to get the good results).

    I would really learn learn learn. Part of the problem is that in order to fight spammers, search engines update their alogrithms. So, if you've just paid a consultant to optimise your page and google changes the rules, you're back to square 1, fork out more cash. If you learn the basics, then keeping up with the changes is not that hard.

    Perhaps a better question would be to ask folks to post what works for them?

    These are just my opinions and I'd love to hear from other members....

    PS. If someone approached me directly via my site to help them with SEO, I'd take the work. On these forums though I think that people are willing to help freely, so you should use that (and also contribute in return).
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  • Profile picture of the author mattalways
    If you need help I do provide this service, but I encourage my clients to learn as much as possible about SEO as they can. It's easy stuff, it just takes time to do & figure out. Good advice would be to find out what is working for others as suggested above. If you need help, just let me know!
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    • Profile picture of the author Denise Million
      I'd start with going into your source code in cpanel and add a space between the two words in your title where the space is missing. And you could reword your title. Then make sure your keywords are ones people actually search for. You could write a better description as well.

      I didn't see a place for your visitors to give you their name and email address so you could educate them and provide valuable tips about tea and also provide special offers...all these things would help convert one time visitors into buyers.

      Instead of saying "Best Japanese Green Tea", you could tell people who stop by your site why it's so good for you and how they will feel after taking their first sip. How it will not only warm them but will make them healthier...if it in fact would do that.

      These are all things you could learn to do yourself and they would improve your conversion rate. So many people just skim a site quickly. You need to give them a reason to stick around.

      Hope that helps.
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  • Profile picture of the author kindlebitsols
    u can contact some SEO or Internet marketing companies to do seo of ur site.
    also u can learn the all about seo on google.
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  • Profile picture of the author askloz
    most of it looks ok, but you need to get in contact with the shopping cart software developers and ask them how to use the .htaccess file to rewrite your urls so they show the product name... ideally you want it to look like this

    domain.com/category-name/product-name.htm

    and remove the www from your domain name as well.
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  • Profile picture of the author m4rx
    I see that you have the Zen Shopping Cart software, so I would start first by Googling "Zen Cart url rewrite".
    You could start here Chemo's Ultimate URL's - Zen Cart Support

    I mean alot of SEO is really just logic. For example if I want organic Green Tea, the url could be changed like so:
    /index.php?main_page=index&cPath=24
    to something like
    /products/organic-green-tea

    Notice the /products instead of /product as this is showing multiple items.

    It could be the same if I wanted a specific item:
    /index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=8&products_ id=21
    as
    /product/cha-otome-organic-green-tea

    I am no SEO expert by any measure, but I have what works for me, and it is just what you want your site to look like to Google and internet surfers. Make a URL that you would want to look at, nothing with &%#! or any other symbols. Just simple letters and - or _ for spaces(either has worked for me, I like the - better).

    If you want a little tutoring, or if you want some help with using .htaccess to rewrite your url's, hit me up on Skype, email, or call me( (713) 581-4965).

    Yes the help is free :]
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