Google page rank and domain mapping blog
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I have a hard time finding my blog with my domain mapping url http://cheapappetite.com. For example, when I search keyword: “Best pizza vancouver, and my article was found on the 5th page of wordpress. However, the URL that it was found is the wordpress search URL: en.wordpress.com/…/best-pizza-by-slice-downtown-vancouver-bc-canada-goldies-rustic-pizza-west-pender-street/
My blog original url before domain mapping is http://squintingeyes.wordpress.com. Sometimes I found my blog article under this name using different keywords.
However, I rarely found my site on google as CheapAppetite.com, normally it will be found in the search result as en.wordpress.com……….
I always give out my web address as http://cheapappetite.com and I got most visits from this url. But somehow it’s not found on google.
Is there a way to fix this problem?
Please let me know.
Cheers,
TanaThe blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)
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One, your blog has barely been active for a month. You only have 5 posts. It takes a while for Google to pick up up and consider you a relevant search result. That’s why you have very few results in Google: http://www.google.com/search?q=site:cheapappetite.com Domain-mapping is not the cause.
Two, Google places more emphasis on the wordpress.com global tags than your local site tags, that’s why all wordpress.com posts tagged with a specific keyword appear before your particular post. There’s no easy way around this, besides making your tags unique and succinct such that only your posts appear in the tag listings.
Three, the best pizza post has this tag:
‘cheap-eats-vancouver-bc-canada-best-pizza-by-slice-downtown-goldies-rustic-pizza-west-pender-street’
Who is going to search for all that? You can split this into several tags, eg. ‘cheap eats vancouver’, ‘best pizza vancouver’, etc.Four, reflecting back on Two, your categories are also very broad, e.g. ‘Asian’, ‘Fast Food’, etc. Again, make it unique, e.g. ‘Fast Food Vancouver’, ‘Asian Cuisine Vancouver’ etc. And the $ categories should probably be renamed ‘Eat in Vancouver for less than 10 dollars’ or similar.
The overall strategy is to use categories and tags that mimick the search phrases people might use.
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Also, use the tag and/or category phrase within your post. If you write in the category ‘Fast Food Vancouver’, make to use the phrase several times in your post.
Moreover, use the tag/category in the post title, e.g. ‘Best Pizza Vancouver: Tony’s Pizzabarn on 345 Main St’
It works on my site. In fact, it works so well that some of posts appear in searches that are totally unrelated but still use the same search phrase that I am using in my post as a keyword phrase in the above manner.
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Husdal,
I really appreciate your detailed replies. Thank you very much. I’ll fix my blog according to your comment:)Cheers,
Tana -
Husdal, your comments are helpful to me too. Thanks very much.
Is is helpful to improve the tags of a two week old post, or is it too late for that?
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As long as you don’t change your tags too often that should work. Google crawls and indexes a site every so often, and it may not be included on this crawl, but the next one, and then it may take some time to make its way around the Internet, but anything aimed at improving your SERP (Search Engine Ranking Position) is never wasted.
A good idea may be to already from the start make a set of categories and tags and stick to them, thus creating more and more posts with a certain tag/category.
It has been mentioned in this forum time and again, but I will do to. Do not use more than 10-12 tags and categories together, e.g. 8 tags and 4 categories. In terms of SERP less is better, because less is more focus, and more focus is that search engines see a blog with a focus as more important for that keyword than a blog that has the same keyword but is less focused.
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That is 10-12 categories and tags per post.
What I meant by creating a set of tags/categories is that you think before you post. Do not add tags and categories senselessly as you post. Make sure to use categories and tags that you can come back to.
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Thanks much. This very helpful information.
The number of categories/tags in the blog can be unlimited then?
Something I’m not clear about is the number of words to use for each individual tag. For example would people searching for “santa maria” and “toastmasters” find a tag of “santa maria toastmasters”, or is it better to have two tags for this? Would people searching for one word find a tag that has four words, or would four words be too redundant for a tag?
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Oh boy, I’m not THE expert here, but from my experience ‘santa maria toastmasters’ would be better than the split version, because that is what people are searching for.
I’m not sure if there is a limit on tag length, but say 50-100 characters maybe? And yes, the total number tags on a blog can be unlimited, but if you have too many it’s easy to miss the ones you have already used, and you may inadvertently create several almost similar tags (which more often than not is not what you want).
As I said, try to make the tag mimick the search phrase or keywords in the search phrase you want to be found for, and use it throughout the post and also in the title, if possible. From my experience the title words are very important in getting to the top in SERP, but there needs to be a connection title – post content – tags for this to really work.
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Google results will typically be arranged first for the entire phrase, and then for a couple words in the phrase (such as “santa maria” and then for each single word unless the person searching uses double quote marks around all or part of the search phrase such as “santa maria toastmasters” or “santa maria” toastmasters .
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Your comments are very helpful. Thanks very much. :)
By the way, I’m sure you know this but google has some ads on your site.
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I was referring to Husdal’s site, where he left wordpress.com because of the ads. The new site has a lot of ads from google on it.
Google results will typically be arranged first for the entire phrase, and then for a couple words in the phrase (such as "santa maria" and then for each single word unless the person searching uses double quote marks around all or part of the search phrase such as "santa maria toastmasters" or "santa maria" toastmasters.That is not clear to me. With the aim of getting results from people searching for “toastmasters” and “cityname”, should the tags be the same, or would one tag of “cityname toastmasters” get the same or better results, or is it best to have three tags, “cityname”, “toastmasters”, and “cityname toastmasters.”
My reason for this question is having noticed on some well established sites that they don’t use single words very often or at all.
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IC. Yes, I did leave wordpress.com because of the ads, since it was wordpress.com and not me who was making any money off them, and because they disturbed my carefully planned layout. At least now I’m master of my own ads, and one year of hosting was paid off in less than two weeks, thanks to ad revenue.
As thesacredpath said, results will first be shown for the whole phrase, so if someone is searching for ‘santa maria toastmasters’ and you are using the full phrase in tags, and/or in the post, and/or in the title, then your post will show up in Google before other blogs that also use santa maria or toastmaster, but not together as one phrase. That’s why a full phrase is better than separate words.
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That is interesting on the ads.
results will first be shown for the whole phraseTherefore single word searches for “cloud” will turn up “Chief white cloud” first, then “white cloud”, then “cloud.” Thanks for the feedback.
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