Your Domain Name tells Search Engines (SE) what your iBusiness Site is about. Your Domain Name is the SE Spider’s first encounter with your Themed site.
Your Domain Name lines up with the Title, Description, Headers, and the Meta Data on the HomePage AND all Level 2 Pages.
The result ? An easily identifiable and consistent Niche theme which is reported back the SE.
Delivers your UpSP and or your USP.
Specific Keyword on your HomePage is your Theme or Concept Keyword.
Your Level 1 Specific Keyword will describe a loved Niche. It is NOT a general word like mp3. This is too hard to score well in.
Warren will discuss.
Use both your Theme Specific Keyword and related General Keywords.
Use word-combos like a General Keyword + a Specific Keyword for Searchers using combo words.
Word combos bring highly targeted visitors because they are looking for very specific information, that YOU have on your site.
Level 2 Linking
1.. Choice #1 - Income generating Merchants
2.. Choice #2 - Non-merchants > provides extra credibility to the Search Engines
3.. Choice #3 - Link to a related Level 3 Page
4.. Choice #4 - Link back to the HomePage
Level 2 Pages are highly profitable
1.. Visitor arrives at the important pages immediately after the HomePage
Highest profitable Keyword-focused Pages.
Weave in-context links to your Merchant partners
Whilst over-delivering your great Content.
2.. The Spider follows the related links and reports back to its databases.
Structured so finds the most important ASAP
The pages all complement the Site Theme/Concept
The Site is unambiguous and a Niche.
3.. Anchor Page Link Credits
Level 2 Pages are in the middle of the structure with links UP and DOWN.
You receive credits for this is the Search Engines as Linking
in multiple directions.
HTML Code:
HTML Code to connect the Level 2 page to the Level 3 page:
Rose Petals
[ Don't CLICK - just hover and check the Windows Status Bar below ]
HTML Code to connect back to the HomePage:
Return from Rose Petals to Roses HomePage
[ Don't CLICK - just hover and check the Windows Status Bar below ]
6.3 What’s in a Page?
Writing – the Words.
Write with warmth, humour and a friendliness appropriate to your audience. See your customer, and write as you would speak with him and/or her. Be as personable as is appropriate to your Theme and audience.
My sample Roses Site has a target audience of green-thumb, dirt laden gardeners, about 30 plus years old. I think of Gardening Australia and Peter Cundall.
My sample Sydney Harbour Bridge site (a “dry” idea don’t you think?) has travelers in mind, again an over 30s audience with a little money to spend.
I could define the customer in more detail, but I am sure you are getting the idea. If I can find a picture, I’ll stick this up so I can see the person to whom I am writing.
** Ask Warren about the advantage leveraged when he was studying recently at Deakin.
Writing for Humans
. Meet the need of your visitor who searched for that Keyword;
. Over-deliver with high value content;
. Convince the reader to click through your links;
. Text links to income generating sites must flow naturally and freely within the content. Do not relegate to the end of the Content.
. The page “reads well” and is free of errors, eg spelling and grammar;
TIP:
Reread the page a few days after writing.
Does it read well?
Is it clear?
If not – make it clearer so the work to get your visitor this far is rewarded.
Level 2 Page
Humans may find and enter your site from any page, Level 1, Level 2 or even a Level 3.
Search Engines can display any page within your site in the Results of a search. Usually the “sub-pages” under the Level 1 HomePage are indented (see Google)
Choice #1 is to lead your visitor to your Merchants, so make these pre-Selling links the most obvious.
Level 2 and 3 Pages are NAMED using the keyword. Like the HomePage, the Keyword is the first word the Search Engine meets. Again a homogenous Page built around the Keyword.
Level 3 Page
This is the bottom page in this line on your site.
Your goal is to get the click through to your merchants
It is debatable as to whether you provide any other avenue to leave this page.
Some feel there should be links back to the delegating Level 2 Page and/or the HomePage.
Some professionals say no, there are no links out of the page. Then there are those who understand that Anchor Links have value to Search Engines if an anchor link refers upward to Level 2 or Level 1.
Level 3 Pages are built around the less popular Keywords and so there is less traffic actually searching for this Keyword.
One option is to consider a stronger RELATED Keyword that does better in the Search Engines and build a page around that keyword.
You do not mislead, of course, but use both words. As they are related, this will blend easily in the text.
Consider the LINKS as providing a service to your customers, blended within your text. Don’t simply have the links at the end of the page – very important.
Writing for Search Engines
The same applies for Level 2 and 3 Pages as applies for the Level 1 HomePage.
As mentioned above, Level 2 and 3 Pages are NAMED using the keyword. Like the HomePage, the Keyword is the first word the Search Engine meets. Again a homogenous Page built around the Keyword.
This means when the Page is SAVED with a Filename, this name will be
PageKeyword.html
Stick with your theme – DON’T DEVIATE.
Last Strategy:
Change your strategy slightly from page to page AND KEEP A RECORD OF THE CHANGE. This is one of the most exciting parts, experimenting and watching the effect over a month or so. Keep notes, keep numbers.
Change: different numbers, frequencies and patterns of keywords.
If you find a best pattern for your theme, then use it to build other pages.
RESOURCES
SearchIT
NameBoy Domain name research
Warren's Sydney Harbour Bridge Sample
Red Roses Now - using a Yahoo Template
Red Rose Now - simple site showing how pages link ...
Blank Sample Site - simple site showing how pages link ...
SUMMARY
WEEKLY CREATIVE THINKING
WEEK 7 … What is on ?
