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Old April 24th, 2009, 04:11 PM
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Why oh why?

I have been working and working on my site for a while now, there has been "some success" but for some reason I just cant get ranked well by either of the big 3, I am listed but just cant seem to be on page one consistently, am I doing something wrong?

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I have been working and working on my site for a while now, there has been "some success" but for some reason I just cant get ranked well by either of the big 3, I am listed but just cant seem to be on page one consistently, am I doing something wrong?

Any thoughts, ideas would be really appreciated!

http://www.limoway.com


In a word "links".

You have some secondary issues like "AND" in titles is absolutely useless and waste title element real estate... avoid using common words that have no ranking value (and but or on the) instead using a word separator like "pipe" this | that works best or & doesn't waste any more real estate either.

Avoid repeating words - it doesn't help a title element like:

<title> Miami Beach And City Of Miami Limousine And Airport Service</title>

would be better

<title>Miami Beach Limousine | Airport Service</title>

City of Miami - I doubt you'll get a single searcher that way e.g. why type 3 words if 1 will do?

So the above title is useful for

Miami Limousine
Miami Limousine Service
Miami Airport Service
Miami Beach Limousine
Miami Beach Airport Service
Miami Beach Limousine Service

and other mixed order of words...

BUT ultimately you'll not going to do much better without links using these "EXACT" phrases...

Miami Limousine
Miami Limousine Service
Miami Airport Service
Miami Beach Limousine
Miami Beach Airport Service
Miami Beach Limousine Service

..and variations like "limo," "limo service," and "limo airport service".

No matter what - you MUST have links and these don't need to be overly expensive or even "traded" (as in reciprocal link exchange) - just get innovative...

Helpful Hint

You may wish to try contacting local wedding domains (and other sites that cater to special events which limos are often considered as a rental for the occasion like "prom night"...

Offering them a free rental to they can advertise to their patron (a prize) for a profile spotlight page for your domain (and of course a few links to various destination pages.

The cost might be $200 per month if you do a monthly prize (1 prize per site but obviously you need to repeat the offer elsewhere)... but the divdends on that is 4 fold:
1. direct "no competition" sales for weddings, proms
2. links for enhance ranks thus search sales city sales and airport service sales
3. word of mouth... prize winners
4. other viral developments - "in these economical trouble times "free works"... that local news headlines and online diggs
Bottomline turning "disadvantage into advantage" (I got no sales/search results is what commercialism in founded on.
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...I forgot; I don't do reviews!

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Thank you for the advice, will work on weeding out those words you mentioned, thanks for taking the time to reply!

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I was really hoping you would review my new site in a couple of weeks.... now I am heartbroken, perhaps you could make just 1 more exception????

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I was really hoping you would review my new site in a couple of weeks.... now I am heartbroken, perhaps you could make just 1 more exception????


HINT: find a way to use your website as an example for something here...

As an example the OP had a "penalty" (or so he thought)... In hindsight, the review was conducted trying to figure out what that penalty was (which there wasn't any)... but by then I already saw everything else for the review.
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Good advice on how to slip a review in through the back door... your gonna have to start charging me for this stuff!


"...once I was blind but now I see..." is all the payment needed... eventually everyone will stop blindly following 'self-proclaimed expert advice' because it really doesn't make any sense after all.

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"...once I was blind but now I see..." is all the payment needed... eventually everyone will stop blindly following 'self-proclaimed expert advice' because it really doesn't make any sense after all.


Consider it Done!....

I just started a thread... The Holy Grail of SEO

It's sort of a simple culmination of what I have learned here and the direction I think I should be going... if you get a chance, please take a look and let me know if you think I am focusing my efforts in the right direction or if there is a better way!

-Thanks!

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great non-review, sask lad!!!!

made notes myownself too!

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Agreed, great advice!

Don't stretch your keyword efforts across too many words, or you'll fail with more instead of succeeding at all.

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