Thanks, I will change slightly, although wordpress is not visually displaying the H1 on the homepage - its hidden text - very strange!

Thanks for all your help!

Ahhhh I see - thanks so much.  So Wordpress handles the home page differently to the subsequent pages ...

On the homepage it uses the "title of the site" as the H1 - which I just called 'Lock City' in the setup.  Then it uses the page title as the H2 (which I thought was the H1)

On subsequent pages, it uses the page title as the H1 (great!)

So to get around the homepage problem, I have changed my site name to :

Expert Locksmiths Covering Bristol, Bath, South Gloucs, North Somerset, West Wiltshire

As this is hidden code, can I use the same text for my h2 of this page, or does it need to be unique?

Hope Im making sense! Thanks for your advice again!

Thanks very much Richard, I think I understand what you mean - can I pls ask you to take a final look at the page please?

Wordpress uses the title page of the document as H1 on subsequent pages but on the home page uses it as an H2 - very strange!

To avoid this, I have left the page title blank on the homepage and then manually entered an H1 in the body.

Really appreciate your help! Am I there now?

Many thanks, Abi

Thanks again Nigel - its funny as I had this conversation with Wordpress support - they told me not to worry about defining a H1 as wordpress already took care of this in the page title, but you are right, its generated as an H2, bearing this in mind, what do you think of this approach:

Welcome To Lock City! (Wordpress generates h2 from page title)

Expert Locksmiths Covering Bristol | Bath | South Gloucs | North Somerset |

West Wiltshire. (manually add h1)

Our Expert Locksmiths Can Be With You Within 1hr! (manually add another h2)

I have updated my home page (not sub pages) with this approach for you to see this in action.

Regards, Abi

Hi Miriam, thanks for confirming this - really useful advice!

Thanks so much for your helpful reply - one question about the copy for my postcode - does this need to be linked to the contact page or is text enough?  Many thanks

Hi everyone,

I am a SEOMOZ newbie and I have been learning about SEO for a while now whilst working on my site - lockcity.co.uk - I already understood the importance of anchor text but was amazed to learn how google only count the anchor text used in the first link (http://www.seomoz.org/learn-seo/anchor-text).

My questions are - does this rule still apply? and if so do the menus really count as the first link?

If I went on this approach, this would make my menus too long for e.g. on my 'Auto Locksmith' page, my targetted keywords are 'Auto Locksmith' but also the town keywords need to be included.

I really thought I had this covered on the home page by making sure the anchor text and alt text were keyword relevant to the link, but looks like Ive been missing out on an opportunity.

Our business is slightly complicated in that the 25 mile radius we cover includes 4 different regions - therefore I feel like I always have to get these keywords in as well to make sure we get traffic from our area.

Thanks for any advice you can give!