Google results-SEO

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  daringdynamos · Member · May 10, 2011 at 10:32 pm

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  Hi all,

  Fairly new to this so apologies if this has been covered a million times.

  I would like to know how to make certain words and pages show up when searched on google. My page is http://daringdynamos.com/

  a) For example, I would like it so that when someone googles ’round the world cycle’, we come somewhere near the top. Is it simply a case of using that phrase lots within posts. Or is there a way to ‘tag’ certain key words for google to pick up on. I know of SEO, but I have no idea how to implement the basics.

  b) When you google Daring Dynamos, our website comes out on top. BUT, it doesn’t say ‘daring dynamos’, it refers to a load of random pages from our site. How to I make it so the home page is the first result?

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  timethief · Member · May 10, 2011 at 11:10 pm

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  I’m sorry but this is not a how to use wordpress.com software support issue. If you need expert SEO advice then you must reach into your wallet and hire an SEO expert to advise you.

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  raincoaster · Member · May 10, 2011 at 11:10 pm

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  You are new, so you won’t impress Google. You need to blog more and then the results will settle out. When you want to be near the top for “round the world cycle” realize you have dozens of CURRENT competitors, and thousands of competitors for the last few years.

  I suggest you do a forum search: this is probably the question that is asked and answered the most in this forum, and there are thousands of tips here already.

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  thesacredpath · Member · May 10, 2011 at 11:17 pm

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  Categories and tags.

  http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/categories-vs-tags/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/categories/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/tags/

  That said, what Google pulls off a page for a snippet, and what they determine shows up in their indexes is entirely up to them as is what keywords they are going to pull out of a post and use to index your posts and pages.

  I’ve worked with some very savvy web copy guru’s on client’s sites and they have spent many hundreds of dollars of the client’s money painfully crafting meta descriptions and wringing their hands over just the right keywords, only to have Google virtually ignore all that expensive work. I feel personally blessed if they use my carefully crafted meta descriptions 40% of the time.

  The g00g does what the g00g wants. The g00g can’t be forced into anything.

  Write good posts with good keywords in the body and in the title, choose categories and tags carefully and let the chips fall where they may. Sometimes they will fall where you wished them to fall and sometimes they will not.