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Hello all, not sure if I have posted this in the right place so apologies if not.....

Ok so as the title says this is about search engine keywords.

I am wondering if anyone has any tips for adding keywords for my site. I have seen other sites that have a list of words on their home page so that when Google or other search engines do their searching they will find these words and help the site rank. Is this the best way of doing it? The name of my site is ranked top when searching on Google, but I want my site to come up if someone searches for say....headshots Bristol, or Bristol Photographers etc.

Also, would it work if I were to put a list of all the keywords I want to use in maybe the menu section of my site (as I have seen Google lists my menu titles in the 'description') but change the colour of the text so it is the same as the colour of the menu?? I think that having a list of words looks quite ugly, and it would not work on my site at all!!! Basically would the words be searchable even though they are the same colour as the background/invisible?

Sorry for the long post!!!!

Hi, you should generally add some meta informations to your template.
search google for a meta tag generator or use this one http://www.addme.com/meta.htm
Place this stuff in your template file.

Then you should optimize your landing pages.

1. If your keyword is "headshots Bristol"
2. optimize a url like this: http://yourdomainname.com/headshots-bristol
3. optimize your meta informations and include headshots Bristol
4. Use the keyword in your content
5. like:
6. <h1> headshots Bristol Photography</h1>
7. Yeah, headshots Bristol we got all text text text

Only some basics ;) If you want to learn more about this you should search for "SEO"

Cheers for the heads up, I will have a search for Search Engine Optimisation then!

Hey.

You should also work better your image "alt" and "tittle" attributes.

And use rel="nofollow" for links like the one bellow images here

Get a robot.txt file.

Get a sitemap XML

Check your website errors

Get more backlinks

if .edu and .gov, better

DMOZ and yahoo directory.

Setup a twitter account. "bs6photography" is free for use.

Get Wikipedia backlinks

.info is ok. It would be better .co.uk

Try to move your server back to UK. It is located in Lithuania.

Your website without www doesn't redirect to www (or the opposite). It's duplicate content!

There is much more.

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Holly molly!! Hahahaha!! Thanks for your input!! Theres A LOT I need to learn about websites!!

I am not sure what you mean for the first pointer ie: image 'alt and 'title' attributes and I am not sure how I would go about moving my server back to the UK as I use a free hosting service (is that that even the same thing?!?!) and I dont know where they are based!!

I will research the rest. Thanks again!!

1. <img src='path_to_image.jpg' alt='Path to image' title='My Image' />

img alt attribute

Why thank you Vaska!! I am reading/learning now!!

I am not entirely sure either how to redirect my site with out www to the site with www.

Also when I look at my site using Google Chrome without the www it appears to be enlarged!! Like I have zoomed in on the page slightly! Does anyone have any ideas why this would be? I have researched it but cannot find a reason!

I found this article regarding redirecting your website with no www to websitesite with www using .htaccess file and it proved to be helpful.

I also looked into Wikipedia back links and apparently t doesn't work as they are using rel="nofollow" the same as Flickr.

Also when I look at my site using Google Chrome without the www it appears to be enlarged!! Like I have zoomed in on the page slightly!

Are you sure you didn’t zoom in? Try CTRL+0 to go back to defeault zoom.

Browsers often save settings like zoom level on a per-domain basis. Meaning Chrome might have saved a different zoom level for the website with/without the www subdomain.

Using Firefox you can see which rel attribute a link have.

From big websites like facebook or twitter, to point out an example, something like rel="me nofollow".

Most people point links to other websites without any control over the rel attribute.

This means that if you're pointing to a web site like facebook and from facebook to you, if you don't specific the rel attribute then your giving pagerank to facebook and not getting nothing back.

About the alt. Search engines don't "read2 images. With the alt you can give more information about the images for search engines. I don't think you can fix that using the indexhibit image galleries.

So it ain't only about keywords but as well how your website is built.

My advice is for you to see what other photographers are doing with their meta-tags to find out which keywords fits best for you. Keywords are usually the same as people use when they search the web for something. Usually, takes a year to get results about keywords and which one fits best.

Maybe you could try a low budget adwords by google. It's a good way to know how users search for information.

Also search for SEO tools. There are a couple of them free of use that will help you understand what is going on with your website