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I am a founder for a tech summer camp program. My website has a page full of resources for web-development meant for camp participants and has been getting lots of traffic from people querying html colors, css cheat sheet, and other similar terms.
My question is: will traffic from these terms hurt my SEO for queries involving things like summer camps,tech camps halifax, or other more related queries? or Is any traffic good for my SEO?
Note: We have no problem with people accessing these resources, so I haven't bothered to password protect it or add robots.txt or anything. The site is compcamp.ca and the resource page I mentioned is compcamp.ca/web-development-design-resources/
Google ranks the site compcamp.ca/web-development-design-resources/ well for search-queries like css cheat-sheet, because the content of your site contains the keywords and so on.
There are no Keywords for "tech camps halifax" and so on. So Google won't rank this subsite.
If you want to rank fpr "tech camps halifax" you have to take content on a site (i would expect the start page) which contains those keywords.
The other way round: Successful search queries on your cheat-sheet sub-site won't hurt your rankings from other sub-pages which delivers different information = different keywords.
I hope this is answering your question, don't bother to ask if not.
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I noted that Google use web page content when they index pages for SEO purposes. Therefore, what I did was I created the web pages and I used lot of keyword on the web pages. Then I applied the background color to the above keywords to show users.
Question is do they block this kind of pages?
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is something you really need an expert for these days. The days of having some keywords and meta-data only have long gone, so you need to keep up to date with current SEO tricks to get your site up the Google ranking. You can also check the Alexa rankings for your website.
Take a look at the SEO guidelines from Google here
Take a look at some pointers here and here, but you really need to invest some time and research into the best practices.
You should also make your site as accessible as possible, this will make the site easier to spider, there are some tools here to look at and there's a site here you can use.
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Our company has created a "comparison" tool that uses unique urls to choose who you want to compare, example:
http://www.sportingcharts.com/nhl/2010-edmonton-oilers/vs/2008-calgary-flames/
http://www.sportingcharts.com/nhl/1993-carolina-hurricanes/vs/2008-dallas-stars/
Does anyone know if this is a recommended SEO strategy or is it better to use query string parameters instead of completely different urls. One advantage I was thinking of is this could grab long tail traffic searches such as "2010 Edmonton Oilers Vs 1995 Calgary Flames" but having this many URLS might also hurt the general SEO of these pages.
Does anyone have any experience in creating pages like this? What is the recommended strategy?
The style of URL is not going to matter much to search engines.
From a search engine perspective they are going to care more that:
You have 30 teams and 24 seasons. You are creating 30*24*30*24 = over 500,000 pages.
Each page has very little content. Its just two team names and some numerical stats.
The content that you do have is heavily duplicated across pages.
The search volume for your targeted keywords is going to be very low. Very few people search for two team names with two different years.
If I ran a search engine, I would not want to have my crawlers waste time crawling that site. I wouldn't want the pages in the index.
I expect that your site will suffer from "thin content", "duplicate content", and "excessive pages" issues because of this section.
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I noticed that when one searches for some companies in Google, the results come back with nice categories. For example, if you Google sqlteam, the result contains SqlTeam website sections such as Forums, SQL Server Version, Weblogs, SQL Server Links, etc.
When I Google for the site whatiftoptions, I don't get these nice categories. What do I need to do in order for Google to display categories in search result?
Thanks.
Unfortunately, only Google knows the exact method for generating Sitelinks for your site. It is kept secret to prevent sites from abusing the ranking system, as having a site with Sitelinks can easily improve its image in the search results. Commonly sitelinked sites have the following attributes:
Site ranks first for the keyword(s) that generate the Sitelinks listing
Easily spiderable, structured navigation.
Fairly high natural search traffic.
High click through rates from the search results page.
Popular internal pages appear as Sitelinks.
Unique titles and meta descriptions on internal pages.
You can read more about this at http://www.hochmanconsultants.com/articles/sitelinks.shtml
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we all have heard about benefits of microblogs but what if we have a microblog and want to boost it's SEO?
the biggest problem in microblogs is keywords are not related to each other and each topic has a small amount of related keywords.
for example if we have a microblog that has short tips about all fields in computer sience, and a blog that publish articles in this field too.
the outlined blog has a better chance to be appeared in SERP, instead the underlined microblog has no chance because of it's limited keywords.
am i right and what is the SEO solution for these microblogs?
In theory, blog with more keywords can rank better than microblog with few keywords because there is more content on blog.
For many seo addicts, content is king! No matter support of website, the most important is having always more content (and thus keywords).
In my opinion, blog is more powerful in seo than microblog.
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I have developed a website for a firm that deals in pumps, valves and diesel engines. They require that when an interested user searches with some keywords like "Pump Dealers" or "Valve Dealers", their site should appear in the results. Currently I am not aware of how I can go about this, so my question is what should I do in order for better page ranking. I am using meaningful page titles and have enough text in every page.
Any suggestion is welcome.
Firstly Pagerank is irrelevant these days, so don't worry about that.
You should ensure that you use Google's Webmaster Tools to check that Google knows about your site etc. This will tell you what things it is coming up for on Google.
Make sure that the page has the text on it you want to rank for - as you mention, titles, headers etc will help but don't over do it.
The main thing to do is to get links to your site – write interesting blog posts, contact customers etc so they link to you.
It really depends on who your competition is for those terms - if there are already 10 huge companies ranking for those terms then you are stuck.
The other way to do this is to buy Adwords – this will likely cost upwards of $5-10 a day to get any meaningful traffic though.