six months ago...if I opened any search engine & typed in 'recording studio, new jersey'...my business was very near the top of the list.
if I typed in 'recording studio, trenton'...I was at the very top of the list.
now...I'm not even on the list...anybody's list...!!!
wonder what could have happened, 'cause the phone has stopped ringing.
thanx,
mark4man
moonmixstudios.com
Hi Mark, I'm no expert, but I can not see why your site was so well placed in the past? Has it had a major rewrite? Anyway, the problems I can see with the site (as it is) are:
1. The title of the site is: <title>MoonMix Studios</title>.
The only refererences to "New Jersey" and "recording studio" I can find are:
2. <meta name="description" content="New Jersey's newest high-quality, affordable, Recording Studio & Mastering Service"> It may be that the apostrophe and ampersand are confusing the search bot? I'd stick to plain text in the meta details.
3. <meta name="keywords" content=" ... 700 or so characters then... new jersey recording studios, ...">I'm not sure whether search engines even use the keywords nowadays, but even if they do, they may parse only 300 or so characters.
4. I can't find an <h1> tag.
What I'm trying to say is that the search engines seem to like to pick out words from the visible text, not hidden details. E.g. If you search "relativity myths" my site "relativity-myths.org.uk" consistently comes up #1. Why? Because its called that. Similarly, search for "new jersey recording studios" and top of the list will tend to be sites with that in the URL, title or <h1> tag or details.
Like I say, I'm no expert, but I hope that this helps...
HTML supports 6 levels of headings in the body. <h1> to <h6> Every web page should have one, and only one, <h1> tag in it, preferably at the beginning of the body. See: http://htmlhelp.com/reference/html40/block/h1.html
Again, I'm not sure if the search engines still use the <h1> tag, but I'd stick one in anyway. If nothing else, the page should fail validation without one. The important places that seem to be parsed by the search engines are:
- The URL.
- The title.
- The first 200 or so characters of the details.
- The first 200 or so characters of the body text.
Possibly, they may also parse the first 200 or so characters of the keywords, and the h1 tag, so its a good idea to set them to something suitable as well...
"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools."
-- Douglas Adams
3. <meta name="keywords" content=" ... 700 or so characters then... new jersey recording studios, ...">I'm not sure whether search engines even use the keywords nowadays, but even if they do, they may parse only 300 or so characters.
Like I say, I'm no expert, but I hope that this helps...
One of the many reasons can be the sites you were getting backlinks from might be blown away by penguin updates and results in lowering the overall backlinks to you site and SERPs.
"A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools."
-- Douglas Adams
(meaning they're not in the 'body', per se...& they're not visible.
will this work for SEO...???
thanx,
mark4man
UPDATE: never mind the above...I created a separate layer (#77) for my <h1> tag heading...& hid it (using Z-indexing) in back of a layer (#3) that contained a graphic of the exact same site description. this way, it's not visible...but will be picked up by the crawlers (will it, I hope...is this legit?)
Hi,
You should know about SEO (Search Engine optimization).
May be your competitor done SEO of there website to promote it on the top for business.
Now its your time to do SEO of your website.
Make backlinks with your keywords. Do some article submission. There are many more ways to promote your website on the top. If your site on the top on any search engine its mean you have the business.
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Originally Posted by mark4man
There went my entire SEO strategy.
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