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Website SEO Question

by krull
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Now, this may make me sound rather new, but the truth is that I've spent so much time creating products and getting everything else together that I've ignored an important part of marketing: SEO'ing your website.

As an example let's say my website is called "Video Games". I'm almost sure this helps to automatically get your page indexed and will come up if someone searches google for Video Games, correct?

Let's say that when making backlinks, you make the text in the link "Joystick" but it leads to your .com site, which is called Video Games. Will your site come up when searching for Joystick?

What if you don't even have the word "Joystick" anywhere on your site?


I'm going to take it that the best thing anyone can do is make plenty of separate html pages on your site and title them with the keywords, as well as have keyword rich written content on the page.

Another question - when making backlinks, would you want to make backlinks to your main .com site, or make backlinks to the actual html pages that's targeted toward a certain keyword, or do both, or does it even matter?
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  • Profile picture of the author Dennis Gaskill
    You've pretty much got the right idea. Each page should be optimized for a particular keyword. Each keyword targeted should be related to your site theme. For backlinks, I mostly link to my front page, but link to interior pages about 25% of the time using the keywords the page is targeted for in the anchor text. I do NOT build backlinks to every page on my site, just the important ones.
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    • Profile picture of the author Alminc
      Your anticipation with keyword 'joystick' is completely wrong.

      If you want your home page, or any other page on your site,
      to appear in google results when people type 'joystick' then
      you must optimize that page for keyword 'joystick' and not
      for 'online games'.

      The keyword 'joystick' must be in page title and meta description,
      between h1 tags, appear once or twice in bold text, italic text,
      and even as linked text in the textual content of your page.
      And it must appear very high on your page ( keyword prominency).
      You can even put some images and name those images
      'joystick-1.jpg' , 'joystick-2.jpg' etc., and also use the image alt
      text to put in 'joystick' as the alt text.

      Your backlinks anchor text should also contain the exact keyword
      you are optimizing for, in this case 'joystick'.
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      • Profile picture of the author jazbo
        Although you could optimise a complete page for the term joystick, its not the only way it will rank. The term joystick is obviously topically relevant to the term video games, so no you do not have to optimise a complete page to rank for it, just mention the term within contextually relevant text.

        I would also point out that it might be worth looking for more specific terms to create content for than just video games and joysticks though.



        Originally Posted by Alminc View Post

        Your anticipation with keyword 'joystick' is completely wrong.

        If you want your home page, or any other page on your site,
        to appear in google results when people type 'joystick' then
        you must optimize that page for keyword 'joystick' and not
        for 'online games'.

        The keyword 'joystick' must be in page title and meta description,
        between h1 tags, appear once or twice in bold text, italic text,
        and even as linked text in the textual content of your page.
        And it must appear very high on your page ( keyword prominency).
        You can even put some images and name those images
        'joystick-1.jpg' , 'joystick-2.jpg' etc., and also use the image alt
        text to put in 'joystick' as the alt text.

        Your backlinks anchor text should also contain the exact keyword
        you are optimizing for, in this case 'joystick'.
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        • Profile picture of the author krull
          Video Games and Joysticks were just an example, I'm not in that kind of niche

          Last question - does Google gennerally like pages with a lot of keyword rich text more than pages that have just a few words on it? For example just having a video embedded along with the keyword title somewhere on the page.
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  • Profile picture of the author Andyhenry
    You can rank for keywords without having them on your site at all - for sure (look at Adobe, they rank for terms like 'click here' because so many people link to them saying "if you need a pdf reader - click here".

    However, when a search engine makes its decision about whether your page is relevant, you'll help it a lot by having the phrase there too.

    As for links - think about the people you're targeting. If they follow a link to joysticks - it's probably sensible to send them to a joystick page, and this will make more technical sense of your theme and pages too.

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  • Profile picture of the author edgray
    Well, you could put whatever words you want in your anchor text, but if your site isn't optimised for that word, chances are you won't rank.

    SEO is basically getting SE's to understand your page. This is basically placing your keyword or keyphrase in the pertinent tags: TITLE, META Description, H1 and P, not to mention ALT attributes on images. If the anchor words aren't present somewhere on the destination page, SE's won't think much of it. But the anchor text is just one variable in what a great link is made of.

    Link building is NOT SEO. Linkbuilding is website promotion. Here, your anchor text should reflect the keyword/phrase in the TITLE etc of the destination page.
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  • Profile picture of the author Agz21
    The key is to improve your on-site keyword optimization. Even if the domain name is different than the homepage title, its important to make sure that you have a keyword rich page title, description, etc
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  • Profile picture of the author aslam786
    You can not bring your specific page on first page of google till the page have content relevant to your keywords, you will create a child page for 'joystick' keyword and your home page is only for 'games' and online games keywords and you will must take back links from games sites for your home page and child page.
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  • Profile picture of the author type-m
    Keyword rich text

    But it doesn't hurt to have both.
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