Ms. Fox Knows Things You (Probably) Don't

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28 commentsTuesday, June 16, 2009

SEO Checklist with Vanessa Fox

Ms. Fox Knows Things You (Probably) Don't

28 Comments

By Guest (WPN reader) - Sat, 09/05/2009 - 17:35

Vanessa! Wow!!

Vanessa is hot in my point of view, sorry for posting an out of subject post like that, but I felt I must say it.

By Guest (WPN reader) - Thu, 07/30/2009 - 04:39

Hi, I have spent a fair bit of time reading about SEO, and I have come up with a checklist for people starting out. I would love to know what you think of it. I am getting a few hits on a pretty new website, and have managed to get a google rating of 2 within a couple of months, so it seems to be working for me. I also think that Google local business is great. I have done all of my research and work on my site for free. Sure paying for SEO would get better results, but you can get a lot of stuff for free if you have the time to search etc. I also have links to a lot of free SEO tools on my website. The address is www.spiderwebsites.com.au and the seo checklist is on the home page.

By SEO Tools (WPN reader) - Tue, 07/14/2009 - 14:52

Excellent Suggestions

Though the suggestions are excellent what we need to understand is when Google bots crawl a site they generally crawl the content of it not the design but when a visitor is on your site frankly speaking he wants a site which is well presented and not a html page with content or blue links all over it.
So it is very important to keep your site open for both of them.. if you miss either of it.. you are at loss.

By Simon Colley (WPN reader) - Sun, 07/05/2009 - 11:33

Sitemaps

Always useful to be reminded of going back to basics to check traffic issues etc. In addition, as usual Google try and make life easier as they offer an xml Sitemap generator tool (http://code.google.com/p/googlesitemapgenerator/) that you can then submit through Google webmaster tools, helpful to those who aren't very technical etc.

By Loose Gemstones (WPN reader) - Thu, 06/18/2009 - 01:01

almost a no brainer

Not to offend Vanessa, who is a fantastic SEO, but the video and points outlined are available, and have been available as tips in most SEO blogs for years.

By Sussex SEO (WPN reader) - Sat, 06/13/2009 - 14:56

Search Marketing techniques

When page copy and site structure are not available directly to the company providing the SEO consultancy/strategy. I often see advice being given by benchmark or analytical reports which the client is supposed to action with the web developer or whoever deals with site maintenance i.e. fix broken links, make changes to page meta tags, blog on certain keywords etc etc. The problem is 99% of the time the client is unable to digest the benchmarking report thus unable to discuss with their web support people what adjustments are required to improve rankings or search results all whilst the client is paying a healthy retainer to a SEO company for pretty much nothing. People need to collaborate better before sites are maintained and structured better for search.

By Sangeeta Mittal (WPN reader) - Fri, 06/12/2009 - 00:27

Good Points!!!

By Tom (WPN reader) - Thu, 06/11/2009 - 19:23

Fox advice

Good advice regarding doing research to identify if a problem exists before panicing.

By Link building strategies (WPN reader) - Thu, 06/11/2009 - 14:08

Link Building Report

Great video, would love to see what your audit report would look like for a sample site. We have great link building strategies for sites and always love to visit webpronews for more ideas.

By Vanessa Fox (WPN reader) - Thu, 06/11/2009 - 10:03

Thanks and More Info

Swamped this week but will post some answers to the questions here early next week. If you're in San Francisco, come by my seo/dev summit tomorrow and get answers in person!
http://janeandrobot.com/events/developer-summit

By Al (WPN reader) - Wed, 06/10/2009 - 08:24

How well will www.appgiveaway.com perform????

Hi,

I have just launched a website 2 weeks ago (www.appgiveaway.com), its doing very well. I am not relying on Google for traffic at this moment in time as I understand it is early days for Google to recognise the website being there!

I am focussing on PR and building links as well as content on the website.

Can anyone say whether the website will score well eventually in Google i.e from the way is is constructed?

I look forward to hearing from you Guys :-)

By Sahus Pilwal (WPN reader) - Sat, 06/13/2009 - 15:05

keywords, H1 and H2 headers

For site content I would have between 4 - 6 keywords per page as apposed to 1 keyword per page which you for some pages. Plus you have made no use of H1 and H2 headers. Just having a quick look I found those possible improvements you could make. I'm sure there are many more improvements for site content/structure/link building etc.

By Neo (WPN reader) - Wed, 06/10/2009 - 06:15

Google SEO tips

Atlast got some new points to learn to optimize my website.
All over the internet I found only same information each and everywhere.
And this information from Fox can be relied upon too.

Thanks

By FirmaLatter (WPN reader) - Wed, 06/10/2009 - 04:30

Top notch

You guys are taking it to a new level here! Wonderful to have the description of something I go around wondering "what if..." Great stuff that made me smile :-)

By Adi Grahito (WPN reader) - Wed, 06/10/2009 - 02:07

Page not index

I have a problem my old page is not index anymore on search engine. What shoud I do? and Why can happening like this? How to prevent this condition, in order my article can stay on search engine?

By SEO Tools (WPN reader) - Tue, 07/14/2009 - 14:55

Sitemaps

Sitemaps the best way to get your pages index again.
Get some quality backlinks to the page that has dropped. Quality does not mean PR but from a source which is often crawled by search engines..

By Official Safety and Security (WPN reader) - Wed, 06/10/2009 - 00:30

Thanks...

I've had some very bad experiences with less than legitimate SEO companies in my short experience as a web site owner of safety and security products. I really don't trust any SEO person now so I do a lot of it myself. Thanks, Mike, for the great information.

By cluey (WPN reader) - Tue, 06/09/2009 - 19:00

Yep ... keep your perspective

Just more proof that proactive SEO will achieve better results than being reactive.

By Mike A. (WPN reader) - Tue, 06/09/2009 - 18:09

third point

The article says: "If you don't want registration pages, error pages, things like that -all non productive pages. So you would want to keep the engines off of things that are not productive for you so they can spend more time dealing with the 'good stuff'. "

Is this best accomplished through "no follow" in robot.txt?

By Homestead User (WPN reader) - Tue, 06/09/2009 - 16:12

This article and video are

This article and video are very helpful in understanding that SEO is so much more than having some good keyword phrases and getting your content organized well.

I also had a thought that good SEO takes work.

By Mccullum (WPN reader) - Tue, 06/09/2009 - 07:36

great info

good information.I especially liked the point on categories.

By Webmaster Ultra (WPN reader) - Tue, 06/09/2009 - 14:33

I agree, the point on

I agree, the point on categories is a good one.

Nice tips overall.

By Sankar (WPN reader) - Tue, 06/09/2009 - 07:33

Accurate SEO Information

Hi Mike,

Vanessa fox and mattcutts are the right persons to help SEOs. Whenever i have doubt in SEO, I will first directly go to the Mattcutts and vanessa fox blog and search for the relevant information. If something i can't find over there then i will look for alternatives.

Thanks
Sankar

By Spencer Spellman (WPN reader) - Tue, 06/09/2009 - 07:16

Glad to see some points that

Glad to see some points that go beyond the typical SEO pointers. Especially some good remarks about not only monitoring traffic, but monitoring to make sure your site is "crawl-friendly"

By India Designers (WPN reader) - Tue, 06/09/2009 - 06:40

Useful Tips. Thanks for

Useful Tips. Thanks for sharing

By search blogger (WPN reader) - Tue, 06/09/2009 - 03:57

A very good article on some

A very good article on some of the dos and don't. There can be a lot of overkill in this area. Thanks for the info

By Sourav (WPN reader) - Mon, 06/08/2009 - 23:04

Google Crawlability issue

Awesome post.
Really got some new points to learn and that also from former Googler.
But I have one question.
How can I solve the localization problem which Google has introduced recently.For example I am based in India but I want to target clients of Canada then how can I optimize my website?

Thanks to Mike and Vanessa Fox

By Top Keyword Search (WPN reader) - Tue, 06/09/2009 - 03:21