Do you think this is hurting me SEO efforts?
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PLEASE REMOVE
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Since you are running an e-commerce site look into deploying some micro-formats / rich snippets. So pop over to schema.org and start implementing some of them. They are perfect for what you do as you can tie your reviews and stock details into every item
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Take off the Magento Favicon. Also put some content on the home page.
http://www.yourjigsawpuzzles.co.uk/ is a new domain so why should it rank so fast. Registered on: 16-Jan-2012
Start writing some kick ass content. Freakin' make it up and redo it. READY FIRE AIM! I think puzzles help little kids have fun and learn how to concentrate. Make a puzzle and frame it. Put it on the wall and take a picture. There are so many things you can do!
Print this and go to a coffee shop: http://www.seomoz.org/beginners-guide-to-seo
Look at my home page (it's magento too) and I rank for everything. But my landing pages combined bring in way more traffic than the home page.
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Hi Rhys,
I don't think 18 occurrences of a keyword on a homepage is too much , if there is other supporting text. A couple things I noticed on your site is there is no contextual information on your homepage. I would try to add a content block that talks about your store, service and location. This would dilute the overall keyword "jigsaw puzzles" a tad, while providing some information to your customers.
The second thing is the store logo is the only thing in the H1 tag. You are missing a big opportunity here without having text in there. If at all possible I would remove the H1 tag from the storelogo and use it in the content I suggested you add.
This advice seems to also be pertinent to your category pages.
Ecommerce stores I believe get a little bit of lye-way when it comes to the amount of links & keywords on each page, simply by nature of the store. Look at stores like Amazon, or eBay they will have tons of occurrences of keywords on a page simply due to the amount of different products they sell which are similar. Amazon started paginating their results but still when you search for a broad keyword on their site you're going to get a page loaded with that keyword.
There are a few other things I will mention, but you maybe aware of them.
From a users perspective there some links I would want to use (like save 10% logo is not a link). Customer Service, Contact Us, Gift Cards all direct to the same page, Blog link is not working, and having payment logos which link to nothing is also a put off.
I'm not trying to criticize your site, but these are issues I noticed without spending much time on your site so I feel strongly customers may notice them as well, I hope by pointing them out here you can see about addressing them.
Hope it helps
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<dt style="color: #5e5e5e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">Occurrences of Keyword "jigsaw puzzles"</dt>
<dd style="color: #5e5e5e; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; line-height: normal;">18</dd>
Personally I would remove one of the two words "jigsaw puzzles" occurring in the websites title.
If you can limit that word to about 15 times of occurring, that would be optimal. I looked at your page source and indeed it would be hard to limit the number of times it gets repeated. Try to add other keywords in, like Puzzle Games!
Hope this helps!
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