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360interactive

28th February 2009, 19:06

One of my new sites (www.360virtualtours.co.uk) is only a few weeks old, and I have just re-designed the whole site. I have not really done any SEO apart from a few obvious things, but I was pleased that it went strtaight up to page 3 for the search term 360 virtual tours.

What suggestions have you got for getting this to page 1? Is it simply a bit of link building thats required, or can some things be done with the on-site seo?

I'm doing this as a personal challenge and would love to reach page 1 within a few weeks! :eek::eek:

PrettyPaws

28th February 2009, 20:18

Get some quality inbound using "360 virtual tours" as the anchor text.

The number 1 result has 2k inbound links so good luck with that :)

360interactive

28th February 2009, 20:41

Yeah, we're pretty new kids on the block, so may take some time to get up with the big boys!

Is that right then, that inbound links are really the only way of getting that number one spot?

PrettyPaws

28th February 2009, 20:47

Yeah, we're pretty new kids on the block, so may take some time to get up with the big boys!

Is that right then, that inbound links are really the only way of getting that number one spot?

You are going to need them yes, on page SEO can only take you so far.

rossi4673

28th February 2009, 21:09

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tb1234

28th February 2009, 21:16

Get some quality inbound using "360 virtual tours" as the anchor text.

The number 1 result has 2k inbound links so good luck with that :)

You need to use synonyms too and be careful about doing it too quickly as you may get penalised as it might get flagged as a Google bomb.

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2007/01/quick-word-about-googlebombs.html

OldWelshGuy

28th February 2009, 23:14

rossi4673

28th February 2009, 23:41

Actually the .com is a testing area for this new site we are about to launch on Moday, once all the meta is complete. I wanted to promote this as the existing known site is stale. The .com site will eventually be used to target UK based customers, whereas our .co.uk will be for East Anglian targets. What you may have noticed is that the Google API does not work on the contact page for this very reason. It is registered solely for the .co.uk
I hope that answers your question?
Chris

OldWelshGuy

1st March 2009, 09:26

I was just curious as to why you had two sites so similar. I didn't have a good look, I am just a traditionally inquisitive valleys lad :)

quikshop

1st March 2009, 09:41

Our website offers free tips and advice, and links to impartial major sites, in order for you to make an informed and educated choice about your seo provider. I hope that this helps. PM me for more information. Our site is...

This reminds me of those 'impartial' Natwest financial advisors that absolutely definitely under no circumstances nosireebob try to sell you Natwest products during your free impartial chat with them :p

If your business is selling SEO services then you are not offering impartial advice, you are using a soft sell on your website visitors.

PrettyPaws

1st March 2009, 11:54

You need to use synonyms too and be careful about doing it too quickly as you may get penalised as it might get flagged as a Google bomb.

http://googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com/2007/01/quick-word-about-googlebombs.html

Maybe if you get a couple of thousand in a few weeks but if you're doing link building the right way you'll have no trouble!

LBtrading

1st March 2009, 16:53

OnPage Tips
You have duplicate title tags on your home page and portfolio page and maybe the contact page isnt quite different enough.

You want to focus on optimising one page for the keyword and then whenever you use the key phrase 360 virtual tours on any other pages make it a link to the page you are optimising this is called internal linking and people forget how much of an impact this can have.

also try and put the phrase in bold text so if it is your homepage your trying to optimise put the term 360 virtual tours in bold, dont over do it bolding once or twice will be enough to add value but more than this might be classed as over optimising.

then concentrate on a steady consistant backlink campaign.

steady wins the race :-)