How many keywords for home page?
-
I am a close up magician based in the UK and have just signed up for Moz Analytics and looking through the info now.
The first issue was that it says my home page had an F grade for "table magician"
My home page is not really optimised for table magician but Moz is suggesting I do.
So my question is do I go with Moz and adjust my home page to match even though I have a dedicated page for table magician.
Is this title tag for the home page too much.
Roger Lapin: Wedding Magician - Close up Magician - Table Magician ??
Thanks
Roger
http://www.rogerlapin.co.uk -
That's really interesting that I show up at #2 in the US
I have never thought about ads on my site as I didn't want anything to detract anyones attention from booking me, however if the ads did not show in the UK that that would be awesome - I will look into it.
Regards,
Roger
-
I am in Pennsylvania and I see your site at #2 for "wedding magician". That's quite an accomplishment. I took a look at your site - your magic work is awesome.
I don't know if you make much money from the USA, but it is possible to use Google's DFP ad server to display ads only to those visitors who are outside of your market area. It would not change your site much, but if you placed a couple ads on the site you might pull in a nice stream of revenue. People have different thoughts about ads, I make a living from them.
-
Thanks EGOL, great ideas in there and for me as a magician this is an endless task as everyone searches for different keywords and I try to capture them on other pages e.g magicians in (town) or (county)
Regarding the title for the home page I love Magician for Weddings and Parties - Roger Lapin
It doesn't target the top 3 magician keywords of Wedding Magician - Table Magician - Close up Magician which all the SEO's tell you to go after.
BTW my site ranks #1 for Wedding Magician as I was told this was the golden keyword for magicians, so I worked really hard got some great links and I am there - even without it in my title tag now - however regarding targeted leads it gets me zero - i get a lot of traffic from it but bookers are more specific like magicians in bournemouth etc.
I will try the new title tag as it is certainly more google friendly!
I will let you know what moz analytics make of it in the next few days
Regards,
Roger
-
I would optimize my homepage for the terms that the average potential client uses for my services. When you receive a call or an email from a potential client, what service do they ask for?
If they ask for Wedding Magician, or Party Magician, then that should be your target terms for the homepage.
If they ask for Table Magician or Close up Magician then those should be the keywords that you optimize for.
Are they simply asking for a magic show instead?
When composing a title tag, it is best to keep the length below 60 characters, better yet 55. It is also best to place high value keywords on the left and make the title tag contain a readable thought rather than a stuff of keywords.
Roger Lapin: Wedding Magician - Close up Magician - Table Magician ??
That is far too long and stuffed with keywords.
Magic Shows for Weddings and Parties - Roger Lapin
This is a readable thought. 60 characters. Hits magic, shows, weddings, parties
Magician for Weddings and Parties - Roger Lapin
This is a readable thought. 57 characters. Hits magician, weddings, parties
Should your name be first or last? Depends upon your level of fame, how much you want to be optimized for keywords and your sense of ego.
-
Yea, Google can and will alter the page title in the search results if they feel the title you have provided is not the most ideal. Regardless, you'll still want to optimize your title, meta description, headers, img alts, page text, etc to improve your overall on-page SEO. I think once you've got everything structured and optimized like it should be, you'll start to see some results and your titles showing up in the SERPs. It can take some time for these things to start working and showing up so just stick with it.
-
Thanks Kyle,
I have tried different title tags and see that google just puts in what it wants these days - so right now I am just trying to go through all the information in moz analytics and see if all the recomendations are good the problem is most of it all relates to the home page - so just need to work out what is the best place to focus on as I can't rank for them all.
Regards,
Roger
-
It's going to be hard to get the homepage to match for every keyword you want to rank for. When using the page grader you'll probably want to stick to one or two keyword phrases per page, otherwise you'll simply be stuffing a ton of keywords into a page like you've done with the title tag you provided. You want the page titles to read naturally so they look good to humans while still containing the keywords you want to rank for. To do this, you'll only be able to truly focus on a couple keywords per page.
I'm not too familiar with magic, but I'd guess that you probably want to optimize your homepage for the term "Close Up Magician" since that is what you are. You could include paragraphs on your homepage that briefly talk about each of the types of magic you do (wedding, table, etc) with links to the dedicated pages for each of those types of magic and so on. Those dedicated pages would then be optimized for those keywords and then you branch it out from there.
Once you start doing keyword research you'll be able to identify the supporting keywords you'll need to include on each page and which subpages you'll need to create. Remember to naturally link your pages as well.
Got a burning SEO question?
Subscribe to Moz Pro to gain full access to Q&A, answer questions, and ask your own.
Browse Questions
Explore more categories
-
Moz Tools
Chat with the community about the Moz tools.
-
SEO Tactics
Discuss the SEO process with fellow marketers
-
Community
Discuss industry events, jobs, and news!
-
Digital Marketing
Chat about tactics outside of SEO
-
Research & Trends
Dive into research and trends in the search industry.
-
Support
Connect on product support and feature requests.
Related Questions
-
Should we rename and update a page or create a new page entirely?
Hi Moz Peoples! We have a small site with a simple site navigation, with only a few links on the nav bar. We have been doing some work to create a new page, which will eventually replace one of the links on the nav bar. The question we are having is, is it better to rename the existing page and replace its content and then wait for the great indexer to do its thing, or perm delete the page and replace it with the new page and content? Or is this a case where it really makes no difference as long as the redirects are set up correctly?
On-Page Optimization | | Parker8180 -
Which is better? One dynamically optimised page, or lots of optimised pages?
For the purpose of simplicity, we have 5 main categories in the site - let's call them A, B, C, D, E. Each of these categories have sub-category pages e.g. A1, A2, A3. The main area of the site consists of these category and sub-category pages. But as each product comes in different woods, it's useful for customers to see all the product that come in a particular wood, e.g. walnut. So many years ago we created 'woods' pages. These pages replicate the categories & sub-categories but only show what is available in that particular wood. And of course - they're optimised much better for that wood. All well and good, until recently, these specialist page seem to have dropped through the floor in Google. Could be temporary, I don't know, and it's only a fortnight - but I'm worried. Now, because the site is dynamic, we could do things differently. We could still have landing pages for each wood, but of spinning off to their own optimised specific wood sub-category page, they could instead link to the primary sub-category page with a ?search filter in the URL. This way, the customer is still getting to see what they want. Which is better? One page per sub-category? Dynamically filtered by search. Or lots of specific sub-category pages? I guess at the heart of this question is? Does having lots of specific sub-category pages lead to a large overlap of duplicate content, and is it better keeping that authority juice on a single page? Even if the URL changes (with a query in the URL) to enable whatever filtering we need to do.
On-Page Optimization | | pulcinella2uk0 -
H1 tag- on home page - what is it best to include
is it best to have in the H1 tag 1. just our website address 2. combination of website address followed by short keywords about our website
On-Page Optimization | | CostumeD0 -
Impact of number of outgoing links on Page Rank of an optimized page?
What is the current best practice on preferred number of outbound links on a page you are trying to rank with: According to online resources form a pure page rank perspective a high number of outbound follow links can have a negative impact not only on child pages but also the page itself
On-Page Optimization | | thomaspro
http://pr.efactory.de/e-outbound-links.shtml Other resources suggest that particularly placing high quality outbound links on a page (nofollow) increases the trust and authority of a page Are there any other elements to keep in mind? Is the best practice to avoid any follow links on a page you want to rank well in Google for? Thanks /T0 -
Page Title
Hi All, I am wondering if you could help me please. I am getting the following result after I run my On-Page Analysis Avoid Multiple Page Title Elements _Easy fix _ <dl style="font-style: normal;"> <dt>Page titles</dt> <dd>"Aquashowers-Shower Repairs Dublin -" and "Aquashowers - Shower Repairs Dublin"</dd> <dt>Explanation</dt> <dd>Web pages are meant to have a single title, and for both accessibility and search engine optimization reasons, we strongly recommend following this practice.</dd> <dt>Recommendation</dt> <dd>Remove all but a single page title element.</dd> </dl> Does this mean that i have 2 pages that are nearly identical or i should only name a page with one word? The reason i ask is because i have 1 page called "Aquashowers-Shower Repairs Dublin" and another called "Aquashowers-Dublin Shower Repair" I don't have a page called "Aquashowers - Shower Repairs Dublin" (with the space inbetween the words and the hyphen) Any help would be great. Thanks again Aidan
On-Page Optimization | | aidanlawlor0 -
Dupelicate content home page and custom page question
I am working on a website that got hit by the penguin update. Didn't get hit terribly bad, but dropped from number one to number 9. As I'm going through the pages, the theme and content is a mess. To give an example, say the site is about custom colored marbles. The main page content covers custom colored marbles, custom promotional marbles, custom glass marbles, etc. Custom colored marbles is mentioned and covered on all pages, which I am going back and trying to make each page theme specific. There is also a custom page, so I am at a cross roads on how best to employ the focus of the custom page and the home page. I am thinking the home page should emphasize colored marbles, and the custom page should emphasize custom colored marbles. My fear is that making such a drastic change will bounce the site completely off front page and that it will take time for the custom page to come up in rankings. AS it stands now I am confused as to how it even ranks on first page as there's two pages with custom colored marbles emphasis. Id like to clean this up as much as possible so there are no big hits with future google updates, but I don't want the site to drop off either as that would be hard to explain to the owner. Yeah, we are cleaning up your site and making it google compliant and in so doing you no longer rank on first page. That won't put food on the table. Thanks for any advise on this.
On-Page Optimization | | anthonytjm0 -
Why is on-page optimisation not showing all my keywords
Why is on-page optimisation not showing all my keywords, it is reporting on only about 10 of the 40
On-Page Optimization | | yours2share0 -
Optimally, how many times should the key word or phrase you are targeting for a particular page be mentioned or appear on that page?
Our marketing team is debating how many times the key phrase on each of our web store's product pages should include the word/phrase we are trying to be competitive with. Can you advise?
On-Page Optimization | | Glynlyon0