Search engine ranking question
Hey, I was wondering this: if I make a multipage static website, where I have a landing page and an about page, if I put most of my keywords on the about page, would that be worse than putting it on the landing page? I'm thinking that the landing page will have more important info like projects, quotes, services and the about page will show who I am and where I'm based out of (I'm trying to market towards a local audience to compete with keywords).
I know this isn't exactly a frontend question but not sure where else to put it. Maybe we can add an SEO tag?
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SEO is…a black box, really. No search engine discloses what they use to index, rank, etc sites. So a lot of "SEO" is guess-work by people who speak like they know exactly what they're talking about. But having a semantically-sound website is one way of doing SEO. We do know that well-made sites work better than poor sites.
As for keywords, use normal language for your region/location, and don't overdo it by having 19 buzzwords. If a decently-informed person would read your site and roll their eyes it's a good bet Google will, too :p
Got it, thanks Beck! I'm pretty good with the Technical SEO part so that's a win for me.
Do you have any tools or strategies that help you pick out keywords? Not sure if you do much of this type of work. I know about semrush and ahrefs but... they're like hundreds of bucks a month and my business is very new so I cannot afford that at the moment 😂
This might warrant a new post too 😅
Google has a free keyword planner at the very least! Check that out
May need a Google ads account, but I think you can make an "unfinished" ads account with any personal account and still use it
Oh what!!! Thanks croganm 🙂
You're definitely more experienced than me; do you just pick low competition keywords and copywrite off of those in a natural way? Is there more to it (I guess this is a no brainer but I have no idea what I'm doing here 😅 )?
…but that requires you to create an account with Google…and even if you don't "finish" you'll still be feeding useful (and potentially identifyable) info to Google. Which I am against, but whatcha gonna do 🤷
As for what Beck said, yeah, definitely do not just cram keywords in a page. Use that to get an idea as to what's frequently searched and see if you can touch on it in a section of your website page
Fair, depends on your comfort level. I mean google already fucking runs everything 😂
My email and domain are through Google 😂
Thank you! 🙂
This is a new and exciting world for me so I've got a lot to learn but if I can get good at it it's a lot of money haha (and it's always fun optimizing websites to be the best they can be)
[you're doomed]
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Wait, your domain? They sold that service to SquareSpace, I belive! Now they have your data :p
Yea 😭 I made a google domain like a couple weeks before they pulled it
Was thinking about Porkbun once it expires cause I heard a lot of good stuff from them
Indeed, I had a lot of fun! Checkout this chrome extension as well called "checkbot". It reads access to all sites but just change it to read when I click. Then when you need it, switch it over to read only on this site. Sounds extra but it takes 2 seconds 😂. It does a great job of giving you a bunch of stuff to follow and crawls your whole site
Free too! I emailed the dev and he was a cool guy
Oh sweet! Thank you so much for that I'll check that out rn!
What!! It shows all your backlinks??
That's crazy
Ah nevermind just shows all site links that's still nice though
Yea I was about to say, no back links 😂. It's good for making sure you don't miss things though!