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Hi Stephen,

If I were you I would run the page through SEOmoz On Page Optimization Tool, I used this and transformed my page from an F to an A in about 20 mins. That said and judging by what you are saying, It doesnt appear to be key to your campaign that the homepage is the most visible from an SEO poiint of view.

However running through ther optimzation Tool you will find that you dont need to be stuffing your page with thousands of keyword's in order for it to look appealing to search engines, a couple of key phrases subtley faded into the design of the document will suffice, if your using images be sure to use any desired keyword in the Alt atributes, you also have as you said, your title, H1 and there is your Meta Descrip. Possibly use bold for your H1 but reduce the opacity considerably so as help merge with your page design and not be obtrusive but also gives your page some SEO Kudos so to speak.

Dont use the Meta Keywords Tag, possibly also add the prime keyword in your URL for that page but try and keep it short and relevent and the same as your H1, if it is more than one word then separate it with hyphens.

There is quite a lot you can achieve with minimal content on this page as long as you ensure that everything else you do is done correctly, I am redesigning our site at the moment and a minimal homepage is my kinda trip also.

Anyway hope this helps but do have a look at the Tool, it will provide excellent guidance, not just for this page but all pages within your site.

Kind Regards,

Craig

Thanks Pat,

Its always a tough gig making the sense of the content whilst trying to sensibly input the keywords.lol

Craig

Thanks Keri,

What would be your view on my own article which I posted on both Squidoo First then my own website?

Kind Regards,

Craig

Very Good Cornel! If not a tad cheeky my friend.

What I meant was The next time Google are due to crawl the web in order to index/ rank sites etc....

Anyone?

Hi cornel,

Next time they send out the "bots!" to index rank sites etc.

C

Thats Super Matthew,

Thanks for your input

Craig

Hey its question time for me today.....lol,

I an using the SEOmoz On Page Optimization Tool and so far I have optimized my home page for one term"web design edinburgh" started at an F now its an A (Good Boy!)

So I wasn wondering what poeples views were on the best way to do this? What I was thinking about doing was optimizing my site for 1 main Keyword/ Phrase per page.

For instance Home Page - Keyphrase - "web design edinburgh"

Web Design Page - "Web Development" not sure to make it" web development" or "web development edinburgh"

SEO page - "Search Engine Optimisation" and so on........

So I would end up with a potential of say 6 landing pages each optimised for a certain keyword/phrase!

Is this a good idea, or is there a better method I could employ?

Thanks for sharing again.

Kind Regards,

Craig

Fenton IT

Does anyone have a good list or know where I can find one to show me the best sites to create some organic back links to mine, preferably without paying for them?

Thanks to those who help,

Craig

Fenton IT

Hello, here we go again,

If I write an article somewhere, lets say Squidoo for instance, then post it to my blog on my website will google see this as duplicate content and  probably credit Squidoo for it or is there soemthing I can do to prevent this, maybe a linkk back to Squidoo from my website or a dontfollow on my website?

Im not sure so any help here would be great,

Also If I use other peoples material in my blog and link back to them, obviously I dont want the credit for the original material I am simply collating some of this on my blog for others to have a specific library if you like. Is this going to damage my websites reputation?

Thanks again peeps.

Craig

Fenton IT

Hi Guys,

Does anybody have an idea when the next Google index is due roughly and if there is anyway I can tell approx when these are due to happen and how would I know?

Thanks In advance,

Craig

Fenton IT

I am a little confused! I use vidahost  whom I have to say I find very helpful. I currently have the domains www.fentonit.co.uk and www.fentonit.com, now the websites was set up using the www.fentonit.com and I have www.fentonit.co.uk as a parked domain pointed to the www.fentonit.com.

Confused yet?

Now because I wanted the website to show www.fentonit.co.uk I added some code I was given by the guys to the .hta access file and viola up it comes as the .co.uk which is what I wanted.

So if your still here and havent A: Killed yourself yet or B: Went to the Pub

Then my questions are:

1. Is there going to be an issue from an SEO point of view having my site set up this way and if so how do I resolve it?

2. Would I be better using the root domain fentonit.co.uk (I think this is the root domain, although it iscurrently parked and pointed) as opposed to the sub www domain?.......and finally.......?

3. If it is set up as I stated what exactly would be my root domain, would it be the .co.uk or the .com?

Sorry and I completely understand if your not interested in answering it but if you do.....Thanks in advance and I'll take you to the pub...lol

Craig

www.fentonit.co.uk ( i think)

Hi Stephen,

If I were you I would run the page through SEOmoz On Page Optimization Tool, I used this and transformed my page from an F to an A in about 20 mins. That said and judging by what you are saying, It doesnt appear to be key to your campaign that the homepage is the most visible from an SEO poiint of view.

However running through ther optimzation Tool you will find that you dont need to be stuffing your page with thousands of keyword's in order for it to look appealing to search engines, a couple of key phrases subtley faded into the design of the document will suffice, if your using images be sure to use any desired keyword in the Alt atributes, you also have as you said, your title, H1 and there is your Meta Descrip. Possibly use bold for your H1 but reduce the opacity considerably so as help merge with your page design and not be obtrusive but also gives your page some SEO Kudos so to speak.

Dont use the Meta Keywords Tag, possibly also add the prime keyword in your URL for that page but try and keep it short and relevent and the same as your H1, if it is more than one word then separate it with hyphens.

There is quite a lot you can achieve with minimal content on this page as long as you ensure that everything else you do is done correctly, I am redesigning our site at the moment and a minimal homepage is my kinda trip also.

Anyway hope this helps but do have a look at the Tool, it will provide excellent guidance, not just for this page but all pages within your site.

Kind Regards,

Craig

Thats brill Marcus,

Thanks a lot for your help, it took me a little to grasp this one. I can it seem use the Cpanel to set redirects without having to implement the code and then as a fail safe I'll Specify preferred domain directly with Google to Keep em Happy!!

Hopefull no more questions for a couple of hours, ....lol

Cheers for your support.!!

I'm back:

Ok I promise this is the end of it:

Would I be correct in saying that I need to set up a 301 redirect for: http://www.fentonit.com, http://fentonit.com & http://fentonit.co.uk to be perfectly correct and will it be suffice to do this a page level or do I need to do this on every page on every url if I am letting Google know my preferred Domain?

and as the famous Inspector Columbus said....oh just one more thing .............Do I need to do this for an index page also.....?

I may have cracked it, when I run a checker this is what I received back for all the URL's:

`Results of the GSiteCrawler Server-Test
Tested at 6/26/2012 4:25:32 PM / from 217.43.237.128:

URL=http://fentonit.co.uk
Result code: 301 (MovedPermanently / Moved Permanently)
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 16:25:31 GMT
Server: Apache
Location: http://www.fentonit.co.uk/
Content-Length: 234
Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1
New location: http://www.fentonit.co.uk/

URL=http://www.fentonit.co.uk/
Result code: 200 (OK / OK)
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2012 16:25:31 GMT
Server: Apache
P3P: CP="NOI ADM DEV PSAi COM NAV OUR OTRo STP IND DEM"
Cache-Control: no-cache
Pragma: no-cache
Set-Cookie: 98defe8f962c0d1d3296da4a786cbd86=14a6986d7361cee18eca06c3dda7101d; path=/
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8`

What do you think!?

My Eternal Gratitude,

Craig

www.fentonit.co.uk