Is my first site any good?

14 Feb 11 6:52 am

site link?

15 Feb 11 12:43 am

Hi, I've just taken a quick look at your site and I must say it looks good! Way better than my first site!

Just a small note that it's probably a good idea to keep your meta description just a little shorter (say 140 words max) so it doesn't get truncated when it shows up in the search results.

Other than that I think you're good to go! I saw your site has already been indexed by Google so you probably don't need to worry about the indexing part and just go straight to link building. I'd advice submitting for social bookmarks and rss directories just to start with some easy links.

I did notice though that the main keyword you are optimizing for seems to have quite low searches. Not too much of a concern at this stage though since you can optimize for secondary keywords later.

That said, you could probably get top ranking quite easily if you try for the keyword in your site address. Exact match search volume seems to be about the same as your primary keyword except that you've got the advantage of exact match domain. I had a look at the search results for the phrase "secrets to get your ex back" and top place is an ezine article with a youtube video being #10 so competition is pretty light I'd say.

Hope that helps. Sorry if I sounded a bit cryptic. It's because I'm trying as much as possible not to reveal things about your niche/site that you haven't already said. :)

All the best and keep do us updated!

Joshua

15 Feb 11 10:54 am

I know the site is about getting ex back, but if someone come to your site after he type "how to attract a woman", you might want to recommend products that can answer his question (such as double your dating or guy gets girl) rather than promoting magic of making up.

The same for Signs He Love You and Signs She Likes You

15 Feb 11 10:54 pm

Yes, your site does look great! :) I can tell you put in a lot of work into it. Your pages are properly monetized. You have good content (with over 20 articles each having more than 500 words). You also have money pages / product review pages would convert well to sales.

I also checked your links and they are all working. Broken links can adversely affect your site's search engine rankings so you need to make sure that your links are working. It’s good that you have set up redirects for your affiliate links. This will make your affiliate links more appealing to click on.

Here are a few suggestions to help improve it further:

1. Having a welcome page as your homepage. This would help develop a relationship with your visitors and monetize your site.

2. Optimizing your page on ONE keyword per page only. You have used multiple keywords on your pages. It would be best to use only one keyword per page so that you could properly optimize it.

All you need is your main keyword phrase. If you use "long-tail keywords" and a certain keyword phrase is within your targeted keyword phrase, you would also get the chance to rank for it. You can rank for the whole long-tail keyword phrase or a portion of it! (ie if you optimized for the phrase "breaking up with someone you love" you will also rank for breaking up with someone, breaking with someone you love, breaking with someone).

An optimized page would get a rating of “A” in Traffic Travis. Make sure that you have your keywords in all of the following: meta description, meta keywords, title tags, H1 tags and within the first 50 words of your article.

3. Having a good newsletter series can earn you more money than with pure SEO. I suggest that you download and read Mark's 5 Step Formula for Making $10K/Month Online report and Getting your newsletter series off the ground: Essential questions answered

4. You could increase your font size a little bit so that it would be easier to read your articles.

5. A favicon would look great on your site :) If you are using Affilotheme, you could follow the instructions on this page: How do I add a favicon in AffiloTheme?

Hope that helps!

16 Feb 11 1:28 am

disorder77 wrote: 1. Having a welcome page as your homepage. This would help develop a relationship with your visitors and monetize your site.

It seems a good idea, the question i have is can i just add that introduction to the beginning of the current place or would it be better to just make a full article for the main page? and since google already indexed the domain page as it is wont i have any problems in changing the post completely?

You could just add an introduction at the beginning of the article :)

20 Feb 11 12:39 pm

michellerana wrote:2. Optimizing your page on ONE keyword per page only. You have used multiple keywords on your pages. It would be best to use only one keyword per page so that you could properly optimize it.

Michelle, GREAT post there!
Re/ #2: How can you write (or have written) a quality article of considerable length that uses only ONE keyphrase, ie. AVOIDS all related other keyphrases? I don't understand.

I understood that we shall optimize each article (with h1 tag etc) for our MAIN keyphrase on that page, but naturally use several other related keyphrases, no?

I've used Keyword Tool (EXACT matches by the way, not phrase or broad!!!) AND TT to destill some 200 keyphrases (more or less buyer keywords) that have a "good" search volume AND get at least a "4" in TT (although almost everything seems to get a "4" in TT). Then I have (mostly) written NEW articles for my dog-site (yes, dog, sorry, it's a start!) and used as many RELATED keyphrases as naturally fit in there. Always making them <strong>keyphrase</strong>. - If my MAIN keyphrase has a related keyphrase, I've put ANOTHER h1 tag below the top headline.

Example - with exact-match search numbers behind each phrase to substantiate why I use it:
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Article: <h1>German Shepherd Puppy Training</h1> 720
<h1>How to train a German Shepherd puppy</h1> 320

German Shepherd puppy training 720 should consider this breed's genetic nature: GSDs 720 originate as a german dog breed for herding and guarding sheep. In addition, training german shepherd puppies 390 should reflect the strength and loyalty of the german shepherd dog breed 260. In other respects, german shepherd puppies training 390 can be fairly similar to the dog training techniques 1000 of many other breeds. This article provides some specific german shepherd puppy training tips 140.

If you wish to get any deeper into it, but avoid paying for a puppy training school 260, then [a href="/go/puppy-and-dog-training-online/"]Puppy and Dog Training Online[/a] probably provides the best audio-visual GSD training 260 I could find anywhere!

<h2>How to Train German Shepherd Puppies</h2> 260

How to train a german shepherd puppy 320 should reflect its genetic preposition: You must consider the dog's intelligence, loyalty, strength, courage and protective nature when you plan to perform your own german shepherd puppy training 720 - or you will face problems.

Training a german shepherd puppy 210 should start as soon as you bring your puppy home, but only if the pups is old enough to be socialized with people and other dogs. If your puppy's behavior doesn't seem to provide sufficient indication, then 10 weeks is usually the age where you would expect that your pups is ready for GSD training 260, although it may be a bit earlier or later in some cases.

.... (and so on)

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What do you think?

In particular,
- has anyone researched the benefit of using two h1 headlines at the top?
- should I use the subdivider sections with an h1 tag again instead of h2? So, in the middle there: <h1>How to Train German Shepherd Puppies</h1>?
- does it matter if we capitalize some words? I.e. does <strong>German Shepherd puppies training</strong> give the same weight as <strong>german shepherd puppies training</strong>?

By the way, for Google this is not "keyword stuffing" as I use each keyphrase scarcly. I only use many RELATED keyphrases that naturally fit in there too.

In effect, instead of 390 Exact-match searches for the main keyphrase alone, the entire article now gives me 2,400 Exact-match searches = potential visitors. - I've always been, and HAD to be, a "keyword guru" because I fail in off-site link-building! All my sites only get natural traffic.

24 Feb 11 6:21 am

For a first effort you've done a great job. Michelle has more than covered anything that I could suggest.

You have obviously checked each of your pages with TT and I note that on many of them your are getting A+ for your primary keyword and nothing less than C for your secondary keywords.

Michelle suggested you create a Welcome Page. I note that you like to use video; do you have a video editor? May I suggest that your Welcome Page be a video as you are so credible. If you don't have it already, an investment in Camtasia Studio would be a great investment. You can include the video from your video camera and with Studio you can edit it; for example remove the part where you adjust your camera. You can also create PowerPoint slides with bullet points and add these to your video. You can even add effects and some back-ground music. This can create a powerful Welcome Page for you.

A newsletter series will definitely help as the content you provide is more than enough to have people subscribe to your newsletter series. That way you are not reliant on your site alone to create an income. Check out Mark's site http://www.weimaranerproblems.com/ to get some ideas; while this was primarily built for Affilojetpack training, Mark did get this to rank fairly quickly. He has monetized the site like you have but his focus is on building a list as you can make more money email marketing than you can from your website.

All in all; great job. Should I ever have relationship problems I know where to go.

Cheers,
John