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Hi Aidan,

I've always been a big fan of on-site SEO, so when it comes to this sort of thing, I've spent a lot of time doing trial and error with all sorts of combinations. Here are my thoughts based on my feedback:

1. "keyword | keyword" is better than "keyword|keyword".
2. Writing a meta title that reads as a sentence is better than "keyword | keyword"

So for example, I might actually go for:

"Great Chocolate Cake recipes for Christmas"

Instead of actually trying to stuff all the keywords in. If you're desperate for 3 keywords on a page, then make use of other on-site factors to achieve this, stuffing them into the title won't get you the desired result - at least, that's what my experience shows.

Hope that helps

Hey James,

I have to tell you, I have a number of websites that I look after that have incredibly long parameter URLs and/or horribly unfriendly URLs, but none of the sites rank badly because the rest of the SEO is done well and completely white hat. So, off the bat, I say you shouldn't worry too much.

If you have a URL such as www.carfind.com?make=honda&price=20000&color=red&year=2005... but obviously on your site, is Google indexing these URLs? Surely they're just dynamic searches essentially? Each car on the website has an actual absolute URL? It's the absolute URLs that I would worry about, and I'd rather put my time and effort into that than changing search queried URLs.

Just my opinion based on sites I've worked on

Cheers.

How about www.linkdetective.com, fidelityim?

Did you have a look at the file I made for you? Hope so, took me 20 minutes to compile and all

As William said, look for 301 or 302 mentioned in the .htaccess file, if those are mentioned there, that's a sign that things are being redirected.

A rebuild is always useful, but of course, the budget probably isn't there and I can respect that.

Let us know about the .htaccess file..

Hi Barret,

Have you watched these two Whiteboard Friday's by SEOmoz:

1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUrl6p53yfo
2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y5649gtXA4o

These aren't new videos, but there is a good amount of information in the mix that you could learn from.

Otherwise, a simple search on the SEOmoz Blog or Search Engine Watch will reveal an assortment of great links to read.

Hope that helps!

Hi folks,

Something I've never had to do before so I'm not sure which tool to use, but is there a way to determine the keywords that a website currently ranks for?

Hope someone can assist

Hi Prime85,

There's quite a bit to this actually. I see that the link to "Plastic Bins", actually clicks through to monsterbins.com, ie. a different website. The crux of the matter here is that a link from the plastic-bins.com/plastic-shelf-bins/ website to the monsterbins.com website will add value provided the plastic-bins.com page has a decent authority and is relavant to the page it is linking too. So, in other words, you can use the Mozbar to see the page authority of the plastic-bins.com/plastic-shelf-bins/ page and compare that to the page it's linking too. Ideally, you'd want the authority to be the same or more on the plastic-bins.com/plastic-shelf-bins/ page and to ensure that the content is relevant (not duplicate either).

If you're hoping for those links to offer value through to monsterbins.com, I would suggest taking time to carefully look at the SEO on the pages, I see issues in your meta data and other areas. The SEOmoz On-Page Optimization tool is a fantastic tool to assist you with this.

I hope that helps?

Unfortunately over thinking is a requirement here because the site's not ranking as it should be, and I cannot just be happy until I've made a plan unfortunately.

I appreciate your response mate, I just need someone a little more technical to assist me.