Thread: My website #1 on google key terms only 4wks old

Hey ya'll,

Here's my website www.howtomakelures.com. It's my first website, and I made it about a month ago. It's doing pretty good, I'm #1 on google for the key words: Learn to make lures and learn how to make lures. If ya'll have any suggestion please let me know. Thanks for your time.

Wade

Well done on your ranking.

Have you only the one page on your site? I just wondered whether I was missing something!

Hate to break this news to you but being No1 depends on the search words being used by the punters and if you search on
fishing, fishing lures, how to make fishing lures etc you will always get different sites coming up as No 1...................

Which search words are you using ????

Originally Posted by wade4u

I'm #1 on google for the key words: "Learn to make lures" and "learn how to make lures."

David's point, Wade, is that although you place first with these KW's now, how many other potential visitors are you missing by not managing other KW's to fill a broader category search??
Not everyone may specifically start out looking to make lures, for instance...
Tweaking around with KW's and combinations on a regular basis is a part of proper website management. Check out VodaHits, the service offered that is low in cost compared to the quality of services offered!

Thank ya'll for you advice. I'm very new at this, but I'm learning quickly. I need all the advice I can get. I'm noticing patterns in google searches and what it takes to be at the top. I didn't really know I was at the top of any KW, but I started noticing the hits on my cpanel. I'm on fishing web boards and I started noticing my rankings go up. So, I started investigating and that's when I noticed the KW ranking. I will take your advice Vasili and checkout Vodahits.

Wade

You have a lot of advertisers. It is hard to find what you are selling. looks good though. You may want to make it a little easier to navigate.
David

Originally Posted by wade4u

I didn't really know I was at the top of any KW, but I started noticing the hits on my cpanel. I'm on fishing web boards and I started noticing my rankings go up. So, I started investigating and that's when I noticed the KW ranking.

Wade,

You've noticed one of the key aspects of creating "rank" on the web: relevancy!

I don't know how many times I've mentioned listing your polished website on as many community, local, special interest, association, club, or network directories or boards...all with the concept of creating visible relevancy to your website. When listed with dynamic links, spiders see this constant presence (or growing presence) as indication of importance. Some try to fake this by establishing a blog, or forum on their site, or by entering as many as they can on other sites to inject "counterfeit content" .... the spiders are getting wise to this. True content cannot be faked, and title-to-content-to-other sites/links is a matrix that is given much more credibility when it comes to ranking. The old algorthyms are still there, despite the new metrics google has tried to implement to act as phasic filters due to the explosive growth in the number of sites....the majority of which are pure fluff!

Part of VodaHits success is the streaming modifications to your site metrics as indicated by the patternization, and having this service so affordable is one of the first strong recommendations I make for a sound SEO program. You will catch on after making the changes the first 60 days. You will then clearly see the evolving pattern to site development and management, and how to become proactive very simply and without mystery. It's a good thing!

In the meantime, find your site listing in Google, and right click on the Cached Pages, and when it opens up, you will see the last date the spiders saved your page(s). This is the approximate time each month spiders crawl over your site, so you can schedule updates and changes prior to the visit (add photos with comment on trips/trophy catches, a Newsletter, etc). Updating and changing (real changes, not superficial) cause your site to be re-examined completely, having demonstrated your site as "active, dynamic, or fluid" and which may change your ranked listing in favor of other "inactive, static" sites that are above you!

Just some more hints to keep you less than frustrated, and excited about your internet experience!

Originally Posted by Lgddesign01

It is hard to find what you are selling. You may want to make it a little easier...
David

Dave,

Funny you should mention that....
Wade has carefully chosen ads that enhance his site, and also has limited them to what seems appropriate for a true commercial website.
Have you bothered to read the comments on your thread?
(Not to mention the email...)

If you're in a rut, pop me an email, and I'll do my best to help you out!

Nice site. Is Categories misspelled at the top left? I think so. Other than that, looks great. Good luck.

cindy

Cindy is right about 'categories'.
Not being a piscatorial person it doesn't mean a lot to me but it looks like its very informative to the appropriate people.

To all,

I really appreciate all y'alls insight. I love constructive criticism and (when I get a chance) I will work on my website to improve it. Right now, I'm in the process of streamlining my sight and the improvements are slow. I'm a nursing student full-time, work full-time, and soon to be a father again so my time is very limited. I will take all of y'alls advice and apply it to my site. I just appreciate the time y'all have taken to help me improve my site.

Much appreciation,


Wade

Your getting there keep it up.

I didn't look at your site :( - but I did check how many times last month anyone searched using the phrase "learn to make lures" and it was ZERO - I checked the other "learn how to make lures" and got the same ZERO.

So - find out the terms people are using to search - and work to get those to the top of the se's. Yes, the ones searched less often will be easier to move up for - but you want them to at least be being used to search!

I keep reading that same comment.. so where does my 800 hits a day come from?? I can't figure it out.

Dude!

Did you put an exit-under window on your site? HOW ANNOYING!
If you didn't do it yourself, then you should figure out where it came from and get rid of it......there is nothing more offensive than advertising tactics like exit refusals, exit-under windows, and persistent referral windows.....(soooo tacky!)

And about your obsession with "hits".....you should lose the fixation on how many tags you get on entry, and tweak the page view metrics to upgrade your overall experience (and thus, your conversion). Maybe you can really focus on KW development, page titles and relevancy to content, or even introduce "new" pages from merely sectionalizing overly long content elsewhere presented.....spend a very few bucks with VodaHits and get some concrete information you can immediately use to improve your entire online experience. Trying to interpret data which others cannot find is pointless....methinks the specifics you are referring to might be from the bots that are crawling over your site as a result of Google ads.....which also might be the source of your pop-unders.....check it out! (e.g. ever see the slurp spiders crawling over this forum???)

Nope, no pop ups or unders or overs,, nada. As far as changing my page to present better content on how to make an actual lure.. that's in the making right now.

Now, I think my unique page views are coming from bigfish, fishnav, etc.. at the bottom of my page. I'm not obsessed with hits,, I'd rather have content vs hits. When I made this page the last thing I was thinking was keyword ranking so on so forth.. I did it for fun. I came to this forum to find out information.. ie like what, where, why. You see, I'm not a webmaster nor do I want to be one. I was just curious on how the internet works.

By the way.. I'm not your Dude! If you would like to address me.. it's Wade still has four letters just not as rude.

Good grief! A guy comes here looking for constructive feedback and people want to beat him up. Play nice, his site is new and he's still learning.

Wade, I'm getting a pop up on your site as well, you might want to look at the most recent scripts you've added to find the culprit. Overall, a job well done and over time, you're gonna make it better and better. Have fun with it.

Racefan,

I don't get a popup when I go to it. I don't know where it's coming from. How could I tell? I would appreciate any help.

Wade

Racefan,

One more question. How did you put a forum on your website?

Wade

Not sure what to tell you about the popup, Wade. You might want to delete cookies and temporary internet files in your browser and then see if it opens for you.

As far as a forum goes, just log into your Cpanel, look for the big blue smiley face marked Fantastico, open that and scroll down the left side until you see phpBB2. It'll be a lot more bare than mine, but it's a starting point. It's a very simple install.

I just revisited your site - have you changed anything? I didn't get the popup this time.

Racefan,

Yea I found the pop up. It was a banner ad called traffic zap. It's a traffic exchange site, and I thought it might be useful. I don't like popups and when I signed up for the ad, the prorgram didn't state anything about a popup. Needless to say, it's gone. I really appreciate your help. Also I like your web site, NASCAR and fishing go hand in hand. I go to Texas Motor Speedway every year to watch. This year due to Nursing School I won't be able to. Anyway, thanks for the help.

Wade

Originally Posted by wade4u

Racefan,

Yea I found the pop up. It was a banner ad called traffic zap. It's a traffic exchange site, and I thought it might be useful. I don't like popups and when I signed up for the ad, the prorgram didn't state anything about a popup. Needless to say, it's gone. I really appreciate your help. Also I like your web site, NASCAR and fishing go hand in hand. I go to Texas Motor Speedway every year to watch. This year due to Nursing School I won't be able to. Anyway, thanks for the help.

Wade

We'll have a new site up soon that you may be interested in. Stay tuned, and good luck to you.

Hope I didn't hit on you too hard - just want you to have the best you can - and I would like to see you getting traffic on the phrases people are searching for that will help you. You can see where people are coming from by going into your Control Panel and looking at your web statistics. They are really good to know. If you want a little more information - I recommend www.statcounter.com - the free version will give you the last 100 pages loaded from your website. I use this on all my sites - although with awstats - it's not as necessary - but I'm used to it and like how some of the stats show.

Originally Posted by racefan20

Good grief! A guy comes here looking for constructive feedback and people want to beat him up. Play nice, his site is new and he's still learning.

Apparently, everyone missed my earlier post in which I defended Wade's site design and use of carefully chosen Google Ads to enhance his relevancy rankings......

Monitoring Wade's progress is another way I demonstrate support not only for him, but so I can gather insight across the board as to what seem to be common challenges and glitches, avoiding them personally and being able to offer streamlined solutions to my peers.
>> When a exit pop-up appeared, I was shocked, for it was such a departure from his clearly defined theme and progress. A 'heads-up' with justification was what I felt was necessary for immediate attention-getting.

And, I still think that most people do not understand the difference between "Hits" and "Page Views" and how to create the necessary efforts to achieve optimal results....and I think that's why others have repeatedly taken the time to offer insight and suggestions to not be too tightly focused on misunderstood metrics.....

As far as being "rude," I suppose a degree of familiarity was inappropriately taken for granted, and for that I apologize to Wade, and hope that he continue to share his progress freely.
I will personally refrain from further liberties, and from commenting in this Forum.

Originally Posted by Vasili

Apparently, everyone missed my earlier post in which I defended Wade's site design and use of carefully chosen Google Ads to enhance his relevancy rankings......

Monitoring Wade's progress is another way I demonstrate support not only for him, but so I can gather insight across the board as to what seem to be common challenges and glitches, avoiding them personally and being able to offer streamlined solutions to my peers.
>> When a exit pop-up appeared, I was shocked, for it was such a departure from his clearly defined theme and progress. A 'heads-up' with justification was what I felt was necessary for immediate attention-getting.

And, I still think that most people do not understand the difference between "Hits" and "Page Views" and how to create the necessary efforts to achieve optimal results....and I think that's why others have repeatedly taken the time to offer insight and suggestions to not be too tightly focused on misunderstood metrics.....

As far as being "rude," I suppose a degree of familiarity was inappropriately taken for granted, and for that I apologize to Wade, and hope that he continue to share his progress freely.
I will personally refrain from further liberties, and from commenting in this Forum.

I didn't miss any of the posts and I think you've offered some valuable insight. My issue was with the way that insight was offered. It takes a lot of courage to post a website here and open it for feedback from all and it's important we respond in a manner which won't put the person off the idea of site building altogether.

Remember, the written word can look a lot different on the other end from how it looks on yours.