SEO expert required to fix my site

King Mallie

Hi All,

My website is www.reikihealingireland.ie but its rank way too low on google ratings. Can anyone recommended an SEO person whom can fix my site at a reasonable price ??

Or if anyone spot some simple mistakes I have made with site that is affecting the ratings ?

All help greatly appreciated.

tricky D

A few tips:

• In general use text for text, don't put it in images. Use your main keywords in heading tags (h1, h2...) properly for SEO. All you headings are graphics when they should be h1 or h2 so they're wasted. While they look nice, there's not much point in that if people can't find you.
• Change that Flash navigation bar to something more regular, those effects are annoying and distracting.
• Talk about yourself less and more on how you can help customers.
• Packages/specials offers.
• Forget about the meta keywords tag, it's ignored as people spam it too much with excessive repetition of keywords.
• Map with locations/addresses.
• Prices, prices, prices prices, prices prices, prices prices, prices prices, prices.
• Then work on getting links from directories and other types of listings sites including local ones.

mneylon

Check your spelling

There's no indicator of your actual location

Don't rely so heavily on Flash - if you do, make sure you actually have proper fallback navigation (browsing that site with flash disabled at the moment is tedious)

Why isn't the logo a clickable link back to the main page?

If I was visually impaired I wouldn't be able to contact you .. ..

King Mallie

Thanks guys for all the advice. I look at making the changes you both haved suggested for my site.

If anyone has more advice it would be gratefully appreciated.
Thanks.

mneylon

Also - you say it's "ranking low" - but for what?

You need to think about which terms are important for you

Then you need to analyse based on those

pfurey101

It appears that you are plugging for "reiki healing" as your one and only keyphrase.

I'm a bit old and slow and not with it, I would never type that into Google - unless I did know what it was all about and I wanted what you do.

You have a bit of work to do to come up with the type of keyphrases that your potential customers use to find businesses like yours.

"reiki healing" comes up with a low to modest search monthly average of 880 in Googles Keyword tool, mind you "reiki" hits 8,100 ! I told you I wasnt with it.

Put a bit of thought into coming up with alternate phrases that people would use and then build these phrases into your website and as they say above - drop the flash and text in images. The search engines just love all that text.

Best of luck.

study68

good advise blacknight. thanks.

King Mallie

Is it expensive to get an SEO expert to fix my ranking ?? Ball park guess of much it would cost ??

adrianshanahan

King Mallie wrote: »

Is it expensive to get an SEO expert to fix my ranking ?? Ball park guess of much it would cost ??

Thats like asking how ling is a piece of string.

No one no matter what they say can guarantee to imporve your SEO / Google rating. There are lots of principles which are simple enough to follow and have been mentioned above.

Another question you have to ask yourself is how many people are actually searching for Reiki Healing in Ireland, is the service one that demands much searching in the first place? I'm not psychic so perhaps you can answer me that one?

Adrian

brian duffy

First you need to find out what people are searching for; use the google keyword research tool

Then you need to look at the level of competition for the search phrases you like the look of. Run a google search "allintitle:"your keywords" to see the number of sites optimized for the keywords.

I would suggest adding your location to your search phrases. e.g. reiki dublin city, reiki dublin 1, reiki talbot st (if you you were based in talbot street, obviously enough). Your location is often googled along with your keyword.

Once you have settled on some search phrases to target there are three main steps:
1. Your site structure. Basically, create pages and subpages all geared for one search phrase. Make your net as wide as possible (witihn reason) by targetting a number of long tail search phrases (google it).

E.g Instead of having just one page 'Reiki', make that your parent page, and make subpages for it to link to that focus on one topic - i.e. reiki healing, reiki classes, reiki whatever

2. Your individual pages should be optimized for a search phrase. The phrase should appear in headings, subheadings, body text, and image alt tags throughout the page

3. Get links to your site from other sites containing your keywords in the anchor text. Start by submitting to directories and commenting on other peoples blogs. Having a blog and writing interesting articles is the best way to do it.

*keywords and search phrases are used interchangably here, sorry for any confusion. Hope that helps

King Mallie

Thanks Brian for your help. I will work on it and let you all no in a few weeks what changes I have made and also how it has affected site google ranking.

blacksmiths

Hi i sent you the message with some tips and my offer.
I am seo specialist with proven record and strong portfolio. Please let me know if you require my help

alphshuffel

Your website has many problems according to seo point of view. Your website is at the first page against "reiki healing ireland". But against "reiki healing", it is no where.
You can find On-Page SEO Techniques on internet. Use all of them in to your websites. It have lowest level of content. Develop a blog for it and also optimize the website in accordance to the blog.

chickenrun2011

are meta tags still important for google ranking or are they completely ignored?

mneylon

chickenrun2011 wrote: »

are meta tags still important for google ranking or are they completely ignored?

Description is useful if nothing else but to display something "meaningful" in search results ..

Keywords aren't used anymore

ruhul24

are u still looking for help? i can help u.

cormee

Do yourself a big favour - hire someone on the recommendation of someone else who's used them. Ask around, a friend of a friend may have had SEO work done in the past.

Do not hire anyone soliciting their services on an internet forum, you'll probably get burned. Sure their price will be competitive, but more than likely you'll be just throwing your money away.

Look at the previous poster - he's trying to sell you SEO services in text-speak, how wise would it be to give responsibility for your site's ranking on search engines to someone incapable of, or too lazy to, type a full word or capitalise a letter.

All of the advice you've been given so far is good, implement that and you should notice a change in your rankings.

ruhul24

cormee wrote: »

Do yourself a big favour - hire someone on the recommendation of someone else who's used them. Ask around, a friend of a friend may have had SEO work done in the past.

Do not hire anyone soliciting their services on an internet forum, you'll probably get burned. Sure their price will be competitive, but more than likely you'll be just throwing your money away.

Look at the previous poster - he's trying to sell you SEO services in text-speak, how wise would it be to give responsibility for your site's ranking on search engines to someone incapable of, or too lazy to, type a full word or capitalise a letter.

All of the advice you've been given so far is good, implement that and you should notice a change in your rankings.

little knowledge is very very dangerous thing.

Kinetic^

ruhul24 wrote: »

little knowledge is very very dangerous thing.

So is trusting someone who joins to spam.

cormee

ruhul24 wrote: »

little knowledge is very very dangerous thing.

How does that even apply to my previous statement?

My point, which I feel has been reinforced by your second post was that you seem unable to form a basic statement in proper English, even when touting business.

In the same way that OP would be well advised to not hire someone who attended an interview speaking in Cockney rhyming slang, OP should also be wary of engaging, what appears to be, a semi-literate person to SEO their website.

ruhul24

cormee wrote: »

How does that even apply to my previous statement?

My point, which I feel has been reinforced by your second post was that you seem unable to form a basic statement in proper English, even when touting business.

In the same way that OP would be well advised to not hire someone who attended an interview speaking in Cockney rhyming slang, OP should also be wary of engaging, what appears to be, a semi-literate person to SEO their website.

i never tell any one in this forum to hire me. help does not mean hire. may be i m not literate, but it seems to me your are illiterate.

ruhul24

Kinetic^ wrote: »

So is trusting someone who joins to spam.

what is spam? want to help some one is spam?

tricky D

ruhul24 wrote: »

may be i m not literate, but it seems to me your are illiterate.

lolza lols

ruhul24 wrote: »

what is spam? want to help some one is spam?

Eh, what help?

The modus operandus is usually a person joins a forum helps out properly and on thread first before pimping themselves, as opposed to going in feet first. It helps establish their bona fides and trustworthiness.

tfitzgerald

Getting back to price of an seo my wife works for a small company and they got a web site done recently ita a fairly basic site but now the designer came in to day talking about search engine opti and wants 6k to do it I think he is a conman any help would be grateful

tricky D

It depends on the spec and very much on the market. If the company is called say Educational Multimedia, then 6k isn't near enough (from 1st hand experience). If it's Irish Ice Cream Cones, then it's probably a rip-off.

Also worth noting is that a half decent designer should have the on-site SEO done as a matter of course. Personally and professionally, I find myself simply unable to do any website without doing the on-site SEO by default and having explained it all to the client. The off-site SEO can be another matter though.

davepredict

All of the above is good advice. Main on-page thing is the flash navigation - you should replace it with text based navigation.

You need to do some keyword research using Google and Google Adwords tool. Look what people are searching for and try to find phrases that have high search volume and low comp (easier said than done!)

Broaden your search terms to include more general phrases like Poor circulation relief, Arthritis relief, Insomnia cure and include pages focused entirely on these.

Hope this helps!

King Mallie

Thanks everyone for all your valuable advice. My site is now ranking very high on all my keywords that relates to my site.
Thanks to Mark for all his help with my SEO issue and special thanks to all of you whom took time to post advice on this issue.:)

market myself online

I did a bit of research using some professional software, and it looks like there are a few possible keywords out there:

"reiki attunement" and "reiki therapy" are good ones. However the competition is not the easiest.

Try researching where http://reikiattunement.org/ got its links for the kw "reiki attunement" (hint: try majestic seo)

Also try doing the same for http://www.trainingreiki.com/reiki-therapy.php and "reiki therapy"

Then all you need to do is get some of the same links.

One of your biggest problems is that alot of your competitors in the search engines have domains that are over 10 years old.

If you do everything right, those two keywords and their related cluster should start bringing a few thousand hits each month.

There is alot more you can try but this will do you for starters.

Lindsay
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blue4ever

tfitzgerald wrote: »

Getting back to price of an seo my wife works for a small company and they got a web site done recently ita a fairly basic site but now the designer came in to day talking about search engine opti and wants 6k to do it I think he is a conman any help would be grateful

ummmmm 6 large??? and for a basic site, sounds a bid lively to say the least. If you want PM me the site I'll take a quick look and send you a few pointers to perhaps disarm the 'designer'**

** I'd like to hastily assure the reader that I am not a first poster nor a pimp, or the likes - I've been known to be very benevolent here in the past with advice!

Thanks

C

tfitzgerald

The wifes boss is going ahead with his expert so I will leave him off and when his site is up and running I will post the address thanks

Baidin

This is my first post on boards.ie so my credibility might be limited but I work for a marketing agency Down Under, focused mainly on SEO. Here's the basics for succeeding on Google search:

1. Page Titles: Optimised page titles with different titles for every page of the site
2. The right keywords: Not everybody lookin for 'reiki' healing will search 'reiki healing'. Some will search stuff like 'reiki practitioner', 'reiki therapy' etc. Use the Google keyword tool to discover other ways people search.
3: Links: The relevance of links has waned over the last 12 months, but they're still very important. Get links from other websites to increase the strength of your site. This is the hardest part of SEO as many website owners won't play ball but it's always gonna be necessary.
4. Get a Google Places listing, it's free, so there's no reason not to.
5. Look at your google analytics account. It will reveal how people search your site and might identify keywords that are easy to rank #1 for.

Also, not a SEO factor but meta descriptions should be written as a sales pitch to entice searchers to click your site over another search result.

The last point, the most important point - don't expect a quick fix, SEO is a constant process. What worked 6 months ago doesn't work so well today.

PS 6k is a rip-off. There's no reason you can't get the basic set-up for half of that.