Comments for Tampa Web Design & SEO Blog By Group 5 Web http://group5web.com/tampawebdesignblog Blogging is an important tool for any online business to succeed. Group 5 Web offers SEO friendly blog set up and optimization at affordable prices. Tampa's expert web design & internet marketing agency Wed, 09 Dec 2009 18:46:46 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 Comment on Part 3 – Title Tag Do’s & Don’ts by cheapo http://group5web.com/tampawebdesignblog/part-3-title-tag-dos-donts/comment-page-1/#comment-315 cheapo Wed, 09 Dec 2009 18:46:46 +0000 http://group5web.com/tampawebdesignblog/?p=194#comment-315 Hi Julie, Thank you for taking the time to leave a comment on our blog. Your question is a great one and I would love to answer it for you. There are over 200 ranking factors Google takes into account when determining if your site is authoritative enough to do well in the search engines. Page rank is determined by the number of high quality links a site has pointing back to it. Google’s “Page Rank” in the Google tool bar is only updated every 3 months (4 times a year) so what you see today may not be a true reflection of the actual page rank. In order to reach the next level of page rank you need to do double of what you did to get to your current page rank. So if you have a PR of 3 you would need to double your efforts to make it to a PR 4. Technically, page rank means nothing and is often suggested by industry guru’s not to put too much weight into it. As a matter of fact last month’s issue of the Search Engine News by Planet Ocean told us that Google is taking the page rank bar out of their toolbar completely in an effort to get people away from using page rank as an indicator of how authoritative a site actually is. What's important is where a site shows up in the search engines for the keywords they are targeting and we are finally starting to rank well for the majority of our keywords with exception of the really competitive ones. Another reason our site only has a PR of 2 is because our site is pretty new. A brand new domain name takes a lot longer to rank than sites that have been around for a while. Our site is less than a year old and there are not enough links built to it yet in order to warrant a higher page rank. We are currently working on that. Link building is a slow ongoing process that needs to be strategically planned and executed. I'm not sure where you found the 24 out of a 100 website grade so i don't know what you mean by that. We have completed comprehensive keyword research for all of our keywords and then created pages focused on those researched keywords. If you go to Google and type in site:group5web.com you will see all of the pages Google has indexed of our site. There you will be able to see all of our Title and Description tags which are all unique and highly focused. There are over 60 things to be done to each page to fully optimize it so if you know what your looking for you could see that we actually are practicing what we preach. The keywords we are focusing on are very competitive and therefore it takes longer to rank for them. By rank i mean where we show up in the search engines when someone Googles the keywords we are targeting. These things just take time and as I'm sure you know there are no guarantees. As far as our clients go, we definitely put more attention on making them rank than we do ourselves because, to be honest, they pay us for it. That doesn't mean we don't want our own site to perform well, it's just more important to make them successful than it is for us to get found. I hope that helps you understand things better. If you would like to learn more about SEO you can check out our blog dedicated to helping newbies and business owners understand SEO. I don't post as often as i should but the content is quality. www.TheSeoQueen.com. Feel free to contact us any time if you have more questions. :) Hi Julie,
Thank you for taking the time to leave a comment on our blog. Your question is a great one and I would love to answer it for you. There are over 200 ranking factors Google takes into account when determining if your site is authoritative enough to do well in the search engines. Page rank is determined by the number of high quality links a site has pointing back to it. Google’s “Page Rank” in the Google tool bar is only updated every 3 months (4 times a year) so what you see today may not be a true reflection of the actual page rank. In order to reach the next level of page rank you need to do double of what you did to get to your current page rank. So if you have a PR of 3 you would need to double your efforts to make it to a PR 4.

Technically, page rank means nothing and is often suggested by industry guru’s not to put too much weight into it. As a matter of fact last month’s issue of the Search Engine News by Planet Ocean told us that Google is taking the page rank bar out of their toolbar completely in an effort to get people away from using page rank as an indicator of how authoritative a site actually is. What’s important is where a site shows up in the search engines for the keywords they are targeting and we are finally starting to rank well for the majority of our keywords with exception of the really competitive ones.

Another reason our site only has a PR of 2 is because our site is pretty new. A brand new domain name takes a lot longer to rank than sites that have been around for a while. Our site is less than a year old and there are not enough links built to it yet in order to warrant a higher page rank. We are currently working on that. Link building is a slow ongoing process that needs to be strategically planned and executed. I’m not sure where you found the 24 out of a 100 website grade so i don’t know what you mean by that.

We have completed comprehensive keyword research for all of our keywords and then created pages focused on those researched keywords. If you go to Google and type in site:group5web.com you will see all of the pages Google has indexed of our site. There you will be able to see all of our Title and Description tags which are all unique and highly focused. There are over 60 things to be done to each page to fully optimize it so if you know what your looking for you could see that we actually are practicing what we preach.

The keywords we are focusing on are very competitive and therefore it takes longer to rank for them. By rank i mean where we show up in the search engines when someone Googles the keywords we are targeting. These things just take time and as I’m sure you know there are no guarantees. As far as our clients go, we definitely put more attention on making them rank than we do ourselves because, to be honest, they pay us for it. That doesn’t mean we don’t want our own site to perform well, it’s just more important to make them successful than it is for us to get found.

I hope that helps you understand things better. If you would like to learn more about SEO you can check out our blog dedicated to helping newbies and business owners understand SEO. I don’t post as often as i should but the content is quality. http://www.TheSeoQueen.com. Feel free to contact us any time if you have more questions. :)

]]> Comment on Part 3 – Title Tag Do’s & Don’ts by julie http://group5web.com/tampawebdesignblog/part-3-title-tag-dos-donts/comment-page-1/#comment-305 julie Thu, 22 Oct 2009 20:06:49 +0000 http://group5web.com/tampawebdesignblog/?p=194#comment-305 I was looking to use your SEO services but you have a google page rank of two and a website grade of 24 out of 100. Can you explain your low credibility on your personal SEO but how you perform well for your clients? You are not practicing what you preach?? Thank You, I was looking to use your SEO services but you have a google page rank of two and a website grade of 24 out of 100. Can you explain your low credibility on your personal SEO but how you perform well for your clients? You are not practicing what you preach??

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