redburg.co.uk

[Merrows]

My only SEO experience is reading the SEO GUY tutorial, and reading some news groups/sites.

Recent Steps Taken (last 2 weeks)
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1. Changed Titles to show keywords
2. Changed web page names to show keywords
3. Added keywords and description in Meta tags


History
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Site started in June 2003 using .asp, indexed in 1-10 on most keywords until December 2003. Site almost disappeared completely from rankings over a period of about 4 weeks. By January 2004 it was ranked outside top 50.

I re-wrote the site using c#, XML in March. Then the rankings were about 50-100. About 2 months ago, PR went to 0, and rankings are 50-200 depending on keyword.

Competition
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BoundaryBathrooms.co.uk is probably the keenest competition. He gets 1-5 on mmost keywords.

Keywords
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Grohe, Bristan, Hudson Reed, Stuart Turner, Mira, Trevi ... others plus common nouns, eg taps, bath, basin, monobloc.

Other Sites
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The same XML software used in building Redburg also builds safavid.co.uk. I am building others as well. All are on one server which is in the US.

[dilligaf]

Home page title: Attainable terms included in body text
Page titles throughout the site need reworking (start with kw phrase end with company name)
Better utilize alt attributes some missing or no KW's
You could use CSS to get anchor text credit and have the same mouseover effects
Overall... You've gotta do some KW research and target your pages much better

And then there's the links... you don't have any. I'd do the on page stuff first though so you can accurately request appropriate anchor text.

[Merrows]

[QUOTE=dilligaf]Home page title: Attainable terms included in body text
Page titles throughout the site need reworking (start with kw phrase end with company name)
Better utilize alt attributes some missing or no KW's
You could use CSS to get anchor text credit and have the same mouseover effects
Overall... You've gotta do some KW research and target your pages much better

And then there's the links... you don't have any. I'd do the on page stuff first though so you can accurately request appropriate anchor text.[/QUOTE]

The .asp pages are only holding temporary pages. The whole site will be html.

I can easily change the keywords in the title. The site is written in XML so the HTML is easy to change. It takes just a few minutes to change the whole site.

Alt is on the html images, but missing on the .asp pages.

I intend later to re-write the whole site in CSS but I did at first get a working version in TABLES because I was unsure of browser issues with CSS and screen size.

I have not really targeted anything so far, I was working on getting some complicated XML working. I have started with http://www.redburg.co.uk/showers/ for a target list of showers and I want to build up related products, this is common customer request.

I know a lot of people use pages to attract SE's and I am unsure of the consequences of this. Enter "Bristan Taps" into google.com and see boundarybathrooms.co.uk is first with a page just linking to more pages. This technique seems to be widely used.

I do have external links to redburg.co.uk and the product pages are linked.

But does this mean my site should really be at 50-100 while others are 1-10?

[dilligaf]

Personally I think you're doing well at 50-100. Example from the showers page title: Redburg.Co.UK Showers... What would be your target phrase for this page? Redburg.co.uk showers? Showers?