The 1st Page of Google for “SEO Blog” Pt.2
Hey guys, in my last post about the 1st page of Google for SEO blog, I took a snapshot of the 1st page of Google for the term SEO blog and pointed out a couple things I noticed about the competition. One thing I mentioned was how dynamic the 1st page of Google was/is. Well, here’s proof; snapshots of Google’s 1st page for the keyword “SEO blog” over the past 4 days.
Read MoreSEO Tracking Tools by EasySEOTracking.com
Today I would like to review the tools that will help you to answer the questions that SEO specialists ask during their everyday work:
Read MoreLeveraging Your Strongest Pages through Internal Linking
Like with a backlink building campaign where we aim to get as many relevant and popular links to boost or rankings, we’ll utilize the strongest pages we have within our site to boost our homepage’s rankings.
Read MoreWordPress SEO to Be a Top SEO Blog #3
The previous post in this series was regarding running my blog through the SEO Workers’ Analyzer Tool and the Website Grader Tool and discovering what points my site fell sort on. I also analyzed my blog’s theme based on keyword density. In this post just as the top sites in this industry have already done, I’ll focus on completing (most of ) the on-page WordPress SEO.
Read MoreWordPress SEO to Be a Top SEO Blog #2
I was thinking about this series, its’ goal, and what I had in mind when examining its’ title; “WordPress SEO to be a Top SEO Blog“. From how it sounds, this series is going to be about SEO tricks and WordPress optimization techniques that will boost my rankings for the term “SEO blog”, AND IT IS/WAS. But thinking back to my post like “Deep Down, You Know Why You’re Not Ranking #1” led me to believe that I have to do much more than just optimize this blog.
So the good news for the followers of this series is not only will I share tips I’ve done within this blog, I’ll also be sharing other things I’ll have to do in order to compete in this saturated SEO blogsphere; which most likely will have nothing to do with WordPress at all.
Just keep that in mind.
So for my 2nd couple of hours..
Earlier I wrote a post on 2 free tools you can use to analyze your website. So I figured while I’m at it, I’d run my blog through these tools and make all the necessary adjustments to improve my scores and search engine friendliness.
First I ran the tool through the infamous websitegrader. You can view my report here. But my scores (prior to this post) are below.
| Section | jameseo.com |
|---|---|
| Website Grade | 97.7 |
| Moz Rank | 4 |
| Google Indexed Pages | 240 |
| Traffic Rank | 248,714 |
| Blog Grade | 68 |
| Inbound Links | 1,581 |
| del.icio.us Bookmarks | 11 |
Here are the points I missed;
- 3 most recent articles weren’t retweeted..
- 2 images without alt tags were found
- page title of the homepage is too long – 73, 70 is recommendation
- no meta descriptions in my 3 pages; about, contact & services.
Next I ran my blog through the SEO Workers analyzer tool.
I pretty much passed on all the basic and techy stuff. But here were some factors I wanted to address/keep in mind..
The phrase “SEO Blog”;
- Domain Keyword Density
- Homepage Keyword Density
- Site Keyword Prominence
- Main Keyword Theme of Site
In one of the sections of the analyzer tool results, it points out your top single keywords, 2-word keyphrases, and 3-word keyphrases.
I know I’m going old school here, but ceteris paribus..
Single Keywords: ["SEO" & "Blog" should be #1 & #2, if "SEO Blog" is my target term]
- seo – 35 – 3.02%
- blog – 14 – 1.21%
- 2008 – 11 – 0.95%
- http – 10 – 0.86%
- san – 10 – 0.86%
- james+harrison – 10 – 0.86%
- jameseo.com – 10 – 0.86%
- diego – 10 – 0.86%
- comments – 9 – 0.78%
- google – 9 – 0.78%
- 2009 – 9 – 0.78%
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Two Word Keyphrases: ["SEO Blog" should be 1st on the list]
- san diego – 10 – 0.86% <— My Hometown
- http jameseo.com – 10 – 0.86%
- comments http – 9 – 0.78%
- seo blog – 7 – 0.60%
- diego seo – 6 – 0.52%
- jan 10 – 6 – 0.52% -
- search engine – 5 – 0.43%
- dec 09 – 4 – 0.34%
- engine optimization – 4 – 0.34%
- internet marketing – 4 – 0.34%
Looks like I’m going to have to write the phrase “SEO blog” everywhere I see “San Diego” or match the amount in other places witin the site. I pretty much just have to say “SEO Blog” 4 more times. I’ll also have to cut back on whatever it is I’m doing to show “comments http” 9 times. Same with “http jameseo com”.
Three Word Keyphrases: ["SEO" & "Blog" should be in the 1st one or within the 1st 2 combined
- comments http jameseo.com - 9 - 0.78%
- san diego seo - 6 - 0.52%
- search engine optimization - 3 - 0.26%
- diego seo freelancer - 3 - 0.26%
- recognizes san diego - 2 - 0.17%
- website isn’t ranking - 2 - 0.17%
- awesome browser icon - 2 - 0.17%
- professional seo specialists - 2 - 0.17%
- reporter recognizes san - 2 - 0.17%
- james+harrison 30 jan - 2 - 0.17%
Obviously, I have some work to do. But maybe as I filter out "comments http" and "http jameseo com", and switch "search engine optimization" with "SEO", the phrase "SEO blog" will show up on the list.
URLs found in the page
This section lists the URLs found within the page, and the number of times each was found.
Found 78 urls of which 62 are unique.
Ideally, if your homepage is you main page going after your main keyword, then that page should have the most internal links pointing back to it. Always point more links saying your desired keywords to the most important pages within your site/blog.
The pages listed below should be listed in the same order as your 'page importance order'. So, I either have to add another site-wide link pointing to the JameSEO.com homepage or get rid of one of the sets of pages links (either in the top nav or sidebar).
- http://jameseo.com/services/ – 2
- http://jameseo.com/blog/blog-optimization/ – 2
- http://jameseo.com/about-james-harrison/ – 2
- http://jameseo.com/blog/san-diego/ – 2
- http://jameseo.com/deep-down-you-know-why-your-website-isnt-ranking-1/ – 2
- http://jameseo.com/essential-accounts-for-online-marketers/ – 2
- http://jameseo.com/a-san-diego-seo-freelancer-thats-me/ – 2
- http://jameseo.com/wordpress-seo-to-be-a-top-seo-blog/ – 2
- http://jameseo.com/feed/ – 2
This post will be continued tomorrow, when I will discuss my fixes and optimization techniques based on my Google Webmaster Tools & Bing’s Webmaster Center finding. Stay Tuned!
Read MorePerform a Quick SEO Analysis Utilizing 2 Free SEO Tools
If you ever find yourself at the point where you just aren’t sure what basic SEO needs to be done for a website, consider using these two free SEO tools that will scan your website for ranking barriers and influencers. Within 10 minutes you can damn-near know everything your website needs to be fully optimized.
This tool is great for users looking for onpage SEO adjustments that need to be impemented throughtout the whole domain.
It doesn’t only analyze the Meta Tags of your pages, rather it tries to use the same spider technology as the search engines spiders them self.
Here are some of the results you can expect;
- General status
- Meta tags listing
- Meta tags analysis
- General web page analysis
- The page displayed within search engine results
- Keywords found in the anchor tags
- Keywords found in the image ‘alt’ attribute text
- Keywords found on the page
- URLs found in the page
- Headers returned from the server
This tool is a very popular analyzer tool. And it’s easy to understand why once you use it. It makes it really simple to understand where your website is passing and failing. Red marks for the wrong ones, just like our teachers growing up :)
The algorithm uses a proprietary blend of over 50 different variables, including search engine data , website structure, approximate traffic, site performance, and others.
You can see the results for my SEO blog here.
This tool also allows you to add your competitors, so you can see how they are performing as well.
Take notes on all of the points you missed/got wrong or would like to personally improve on. That should give you a nice list of things to do with your website in order to improve its’ rankings. If you passed all those test sand you’re still not #1, then maybe you should consider reading “Deep Down You Know Why Your Website Isn’t Ranking #1“.
Good Luck!
I would like to thank you for taking the time to read my SEO blog. I really do appreciate it. You can read another related post (found below) or subscribe here. Once again, thank you for visiting James’ SEO blog.
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