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Thanks for your advise! I'll have a look right now!

Thanks for your answer.

Yes that is it!

What should I do?

I just checked our website Sitemap (www.thailand-investigation.com/sitemap.xml) and realized that our blog is not mentioned!!!???

Should I add it?

Hi,

Our Blog (http://blog.thailand-investigation.com) is ranking for some of our major keywords but not our home page (http://www.thailand-investigation.com)!?

Our blog is WordPress and our main website is HTML.

It seems like the search engines consider that they are 2 separate websites!? When I check the incoming links to our website, I get also the blog links!!!??? Is it normal?

Do I have to build a relation of some kind or write some code saying that it is our Blog... I don't know!

I'm not a SEO specialist or even a webmaster. I'm a small business owner and take care on my website. I created by myself but never learned! So, please help!

Thanks

Hi Donford,

1. Ok I got it!  And did it already in my website!

2. Sorry but as I'm not a professional and never learned I do not know what it is! The home page url is http://www.thailand-investigation.com/index.htm => Right? So how should I write the links to avoid a 301 redirect... Is it => http://www.thailand-investigation.com/   -- only like that? Please advise!

3. yes, I start to understand it! And as I pay him every 12 of each month, I will not renew it!

You are right to say my audience is the customers not the search engines... But if I do not have any users coming to visit my website => I will not have any new customer! The nature of our business make it that more than 80 % of new customers are from search engine queries! Happily, we are in business 10 years already and we have some returning customers, new customers from mouth to mouth recommendation and we have also partner agency working with us for them needs in Thailand! But our business is like others, if we do not have new customers (fast or slow), we'll die!

4. about the meta keyword! Do Yahoo and Bing still use it? If I take it out, will it hurt our ranking in Yahoo and/or Bing? Please advise!

5. about 1 or 2 keyword per pages... I understand and I'm busy to review my pages content to be in accordance with what you say! I do it out of the web for now and after I quit my SEO guy (12/11/12) I'll put it live!

Thanks for the link to the recommended companies!

All further advises are welcomed!

Hi donford,

First of all, thanks a lot for your help! Really appreciate!

I do not know when our ranking dropped but it was long time before September 2012!

I started to see some "contact form request" drop at the end of last year and some more in April or May this year! But because we still have customers sent to us by mouth to mouth recommendation and contact we've build with some partner agencies, it took me long time to recognize what happened!

I welcome ALL constructive critiques!

Please read the answer I gave to cardiganmedia (here up), about some of the recommendations you gave me!

About the title tag => it has been written by my SEO "Specialist" I out-source! (please read my answer to cardiganmedia about what I think now about this "specialist")!

I'll follow "cardiganmedia" and your advises and today I will start with the "easy to fix points" (Tittle length, target="_self" in stet of target="_blank" links, link to /index.htm change to www.thailand-investigation.com/).

I'll ask you the same as I asked to cardiganmedia => Can you recommend me a SEO consultant (a good one, not like the one working for me now) that I could work with (not too expensive - we are not rich)...

Thanks again for your help and please give me more

PS. About changing target link from target="_self" to target="_blank", do I have to do it also for the links pointing to other websites? Thanks!

Hi cardiganmedia,

First of all, thank you for your help!

Answer to your questions:

1. All menu links open in a new window. Why? => When I do it on my computer, it opens a new tab, not a new window. Personally, It is the way I like it (that's why I did it) => easy to come back just close the new tab... But if it is against what Google likes... I'll change it!

2. Home link points to /index.htm, which is then 301-ed. Why? => should I point to "www.thailand-investigation.com/" only to avoid the 301...?

3. You're using a lot of repeating keywords/terms in your title tags. => 3 - 4 years ago, I used a SEO company to bring us to the first page (they did it in a few months) and they gave me a list of keywords to insert a certain amount of time... private investigator thailand 2X | private detective Bangkok 3X... They changed by them self the page <title>and <meta content description></strong>. I the beginning of September this year after understanding that our website dropped, <strong>I employed an other SEO "specialist" and he told me nearly the same!</strong> He changed the <title> and <meta content description> again (into the actual ones). But after 2 months of his services, <strong>I'm not happy!!! It seems like he do not count with Google changes...</strong></p> <p>4) <strong><em>Ditto for descriptions, meta keywords (ditch this) and on-page content</em></strong>. => I understand what you say about to many keywords in the description... But about the meta keywords, you say "ditch this"! I know that Google do not use it anymore but what about Bing and Yahoo? We are still well ranked in them search engine and I do not want to loose the little we still have??? Please advise!</p> <p>5) <em><strong>English landing page basically competes with home page. Each page should have a purpose/target</strong>.</em> => OK, <strong>I understand this and I feel, more and more, that<span style="text-decoration: underline;"> I have to fired my SEO "specialist"</span> (out-sourced).</strong></p> <p>Can you recommend me a SEO consultant (a good one, not like the one working for me now) that I could work with (not too expensive - we are not rich)...</p> <p>Thanks again for your help and please give me more ;-)</p></title>

No the blog started in October 2008! With around 3 new articles per month!

I changed (mostly added) content text after discovering our ranking droped (around 2 months ago)!

Before that I did not change ANYTHING in the main website (except the blog)!

The only attachment I put is a picture of a button with the inscription"HELP"!

But if you need anything else... just ask!

Thanks!

I did not remove any pages or changed any extensions!

After knowing that our rank dropped, I ad some content, ad pictures... but only in the part... And after we already dropped!

Keywords:

• Private investigator Thailand
• Private detective Thailand
• Detectives Thailand...

Also the same with Bangkok & Pattaya (replacing Thailand)...

Thanks!

The only attachment I put is a picture of a button with the inscription"HELP"!

But if you need anything else... just ask!

Thanks!