Comments on: Busy Beaver

By: admin

admin — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 15:34:17 +0000

Yeah they are small and new sites. It probably could warrant a new site but I’ve stopped making new sites for now, especially ones that will only make 50 quid a month if they are very lucky.

By: mac-geek

mac-geek — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 14:12:02 +0000

If the site has enough authority it should, though I’m guessing this is either a small or new site? Obviously the competition for the seperate keyword will be a huge factor.

Is the seperate keyword/product relevant enough for the site? Would it warrant it’s own dedicated site?

By: admin

admin — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 15:41:57 +0000

mac-geek, do you think one WordPress post can rank for a keyword separate to the rest of the site?

By: mac-geek

mac-geek — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 09:56:35 +0000

Whether it’s a seperate wordpress post, wordpress page or non-wordpress page they should all achieve the same results.

By: Marchamont

Marchamont — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 16:23:01 +0000

afraid I don’t know much about WordPress, I always build using .Net.

Another option to consider might be Drupal. That’s SEO friendly if you install the plugins and very flexible if you know a bit about PHP. It’s an installable app from lots of control panels and being open source there’s tons of people doing themes and plugins and stuff.

I agree about the domain – an exact match domain virtually guarantees a page one listing in Google in all but the most hotly contested domains.

But I have sites with many different pages ranking well in Google for profitable longtail terms, so it can be done using the h1 and title tags, plus the right keywords in your internal links.

regards

By: admin

admin — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 14:25:22 +0000

Thanks Marchamont. What if its a WordPress site? How does the pages part apply? I could create a page for the big footballs I guess but I’d like to use the post facilities for each big footballs post/page I add.

Also I did try your approach with a site I had. I built a new page that was optimised for the keyword I was after but it never ranked. Without the domain it seems it is very hard to get a site ranked.

By: Marchamont

Marchamont — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 14:13:16 +0000

hi,

ranking for two keywords shouldn’t be a problem.

Because your domain is an exact match for redmonkeys you’ve got a boost from that and are ranking well.

But because Google ranks pages rather than sites (yes I know that’s a simplification) a second page with title, h1 tags and body text containing bigfootballs would be my preferred way to go.

With any luckt that should rank, and then adding inbound links to the new page with decent anchor text will drag it up the listings.

If you try and do both on one page, you’re sacrificing the quality of the h1 and title tags so you’ll never be able to properly optimise for both, though with only targeting two keywords you should still get decent results.

Alternatively, register bigfootballs as a domain name and create that as a one page site.

Just my opinion, others may disagree.