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SEO HELP please!

by brightgravity
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I have got my first bit of seo work, but I am still quite new to the whole topic.

It is for a site that wants their homepage ranking for their main keyword boosted, as well as some of their categories which arent on page one.

So for these categories, I am literally just trying to build links to the specific category pages, is this the correct way to do it?

The reason I am concerned is because I built one tiered link like this for one category

money site < squidoo < weebly < 3 articles

and I am really concerned as the site was ranked 53rd and now it is no where to be found, gone through the first 40 pages of Google. But, the category page is still indexed. I was expecting this to shoot it to the top page.

Any ideas??

Could it be that I am building too many links to quickly, as I have done a tiered link and one EZA to the homepage, and then 2 tiered links to 2 categories (1 each)
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  • Profile picture of the author octavyo
    Those things happens especially if the website is new. Continue to do the seo work, try to build quality backlinks with your keyword in the anchor text and you`re website will be back.
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    • Profile picture of the author brightgravity
      Originally Posted by octavyo View Post

      Those things happens especially if the website is new. Continue to do the seo work, try to build quality backlinks with your keyword in the anchor text and you`re website will be back.
      thanks, but the website is like 4 - 5 years old. its the Irish version of their UK site which they launched at the same time, but they got me to help with seo for the Irish site as there's been nothing done for it thus far really.

      Am I doing things the right way by using web 2.0s etc..

      Just strange that category has vanished, when the main site etc are still ranking where they were before
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    bump......
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    • Profile picture of the author Redev
      Hey

      I would sugegst some social bookmarking.. this will get you re-indexed much faster. It looks like your web site may have been sandboxed for a little while (dont worry this happen ALL of the time) Keep building links.. remember that articles will drive extra traffic just be creative with your titles. As long as you keep building links the web site will be back and most probably rank higher than before. Keep it up!
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      • Profile picture of the author brendan9971
        Originally Posted by Redev View Post

        Hey

        I would sugegst some social bookmarking.. this will get you re-indexed much faster. It looks like your web site may have been sandboxed for a little while (dont worry this happen ALL of the time) Keep building links.. remember that articles will drive extra traffic just be creative with your titles. As long as you keep building links the web site will be back and most probably rank higher than before. Keep it up!
        I would suggest social bookmarking as well as submitting the RSS feeds from your site and any of the other articles, etc you've been posting. Also try some forum and blog comments (I would suggest manually since auto comments get pegged as spam pretty quickly).

        Good Luck!
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        • Profile picture of the author brightgravity
          Originally Posted by JoshKelsey View Post

          Ranking categories is not really a good idea because they're normally not the canonical (SEO advice: url canonicalization) page you want ranked and are generally duplicate content on your site.

          I would probably build a page or post instead of trying to use the category page.

          If your theme is dogtraining you would probably have a category such as "dog training tips".

          I would make a post or a page targeting "dog training tips" as your main target for that keyword.

          All the other posts in that category (if applicable) I would then upward link to the "dog training tips" using links in content with anchor text variations of "dog training tips".
          thanks for the reply - but you could perhaps explain exactly why this is please, is it that categorys don't do well because there typically isn't that much text on them?

          I have found in the admin that there is an option to add "category info" and it says this:

          "This page is to be used if you wish to add an information page about this category. This is useful for search engine optimisation as it provides you with an informational page that can be filled with information about the category."

          So is this literally just a case of adding more text on the same URL? Also, I dont see the problem in wanting to rank for a category url..

          Originally Posted by brendan9971 View Post

          I would suggest social bookmarking as well as submitting the RSS feeds from your site and any of the other articles, etc you've been posting. Also try some forum and blog comments (I would suggest manually since auto comments get pegged as spam pretty quickly).

          Good Luck!
          how do you suggest finding blogs to comment on?


          Thanks for the help guys!
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  • Profile picture of the author JoshKelsey
    Ranking categories is not really a good idea because they're normally not the canonical (SEO advice: url canonicalization) page you want ranked and are generally duplicate content on your site.

    I would probably build a page or post instead of trying to use the category page.

    If your theme is dogtraining you would probably have a category such as "dog training tips".

    I would make a post or a page targeting "dog training tips" as your main target for that keyword.

    All the other posts in that category (if applicable) I would then upward link to the "dog training tips" using links in content with anchor text variations of "dog training tips".
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