SEO
Glamorgan Business Directory - South Wales
Before I started building dynamic pages using a database I used to just build static HTML pages and created numerous different county pages like these,
Lincolnshire Business Directory
Warwickshire Business Directory
etc. etc.
Unfortunately though, I never got around to building pages for the Scottish or Welsh counties, which is a bit ackward when calling yourself a UK Business Directory.
With this in mind I started building some new pages this morning for South Wales and especialy the Vale of Glamorgan, I started of with a Glamorgan Business Directory and then found a county map of South Wales and started building other directories for surrounding Welsh counties.
So far I hace built the following,
and will be adding to these over the coming days.
target=”_blank” bad for SEO
Made a discovery today which could effect anybody who uses target=”_blank” when they haven’t got their URL’s configured right.
Here is an example,
http://www.uksmallbusinessdirectory.co.uk/business-listings.asp?strCompanyName=Wheelchair%20Ramps%20UK
Anyone reading this will see that the spaces between “Wheelchair Ramps UK” were left in the URL but the browser converts these so it reads “Wheelchair%20Ramps%20UK”
This page links to the above page where it says “See their main details below.” http://www.uksmallbusinessdirectory.co.uk/x-telephone.asp?CompanyID=18091
Nothing strange so far, the spaces are converted to &20 and http://www.uksmallbusinessdirectory.co.uk/business-listings.asp?strCompanyName=Wheelchair%20Ramps%20UK is indexed fine by google.
Now try looking at this page, http://www.uksmallbusinessdirectory.co.uk/y-telephone.asp?CompanyID=18091 again follow the link where it says “See their main details below.” but when you get to the page look at the URL!
This time the spaces are left in the URL.
After a bit of testing I soon realised that the reason the spaces were not converted to %20 was because the link from the 2nd page was using target=”_blank”
UK SEO Companies
Sorted through the SEO Companies registered in one of my main Business Directory sites today and arranged them in to a county search facility.
SEO Companies in Aberdeenshire
SEO Companies in Bedfordshire
SEO Companies in Berkshire
SEO Companies in Cambridgeshire
SEO Companies in Carmarthenshire
SEO Companies in Gloucestershire
SEO Companies in Hertfordshire
SEO Companies in Leicestershire
SEO Companies in North Yorkshire
SEO Companies in Northamptonshire
SEO Companies in South Yorkshire
SEO Companies in Staffordshire
SEO Companies in Tyne and Wear
SEO Companies in West Midlands
Venue Hire - Venue Search
I decided to go back to basics with a venue hire page and remove 90% of links to other pages that tend to just confuse site visitors.
As it is providing information about venue search and how to find a venue which hires out conference rooms I decided to keep it short, to the point and not try to make it an all in one page.
This tends to be the problem when the company provides numerous services, they often like to have every service they provide on every page of their website, which can make optimising one page for one subject a little trickier.
Large Meeting Rooms
I built a new page today for a company that specialises in finding large conference rooms
They have a large database of conference venues and know which venues have the capacity to hold larger conferences with 1000 plus delegates.
Scrap Cars in Bolton
Set up a page today to target the phrase Scrap Cars in Bolton
With the price of scrap metal at an all time high, it’s one of those niche little phrases that is becoming more and more competitive.
Trampolines
Back in 2004 I used my sim64 website for selling trampolines it ranked in the top 3 at google for numerous phrases related to trampolines; 10ft trampolines, 12ft trampolines, 14ft trampolines, trampoline enclosures, etc. until I pushed things to far and the whole site got dropped.
As a quick experiment, today I reloaded about 15 pages on to the same URL’s they were on previously and over the next couple of days will set just 3 or 4 links to the main pages to see what happens.
SEO Competitions
I used to set up pages on sim64.co.uk for the SEO competitions but deleted them all a couple of years ago, this week I set up the old URL’s as a test to see if they would get re-indexed with minimum links.
Nigritude Ultramarine ::
Queens Speech ::
Mangeur de Cigogne ::
Serps ::
V7ndotcom Elursrebmem
Create a seed keyword list
Red Evolution have devised a fantastic new keyword tool which lets you create your own scenario for a search query. After creating the scenario, a unique URL is created which you can then email to friends, post on forums, send to people to test for you, etc. These people then enter the search phrase they would use for each scenario and the system generates a seed keywords list.
An example scenario can be found here, I’m looking for somewhere where I can advertise my services and products. and you can use the same page to create your own scenarios.
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