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Roof Cleaning Severna Park MD · guest

New website looks good, but hurt our SEO. Any tips other than using a different template?

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Phil - have you paid someone to SEO your website? You have 179 indexed pages indicating that you've either been very busy with web promotion, at this for a long time, or you've hired a company to help out. If it's the latter, you want to make sure there was no link farming involved, nor 'Black hat' SEO.

Your (relative) score on website grader is very good - 88. You have 9 images without alt tags. Not a Google killer buy any means, but worth correcting. Name the pics Roof_Cleaning_"Something".

You'll want to be 100% sure that it's the content change that got ya before changing it. And content is not just on the main page. It could be a number of things.

My website took a major nose dive early this spring when I added some bells and whistles that changed part of the actual file name of my main page. It auto-changed (thanks to GoDaddy's website tonight, POS) from a .htm extension to a php extension and knocked me out of the running for about 4 weeks.

Perhaps Chris T or some of the SEO gurus will jump in here soon. Also remember, it was about 2 weeks ago, that Google re did the page ranks. Some moved up, and others down and or out. Can you trace it to that?

Good luck getting it sorted out. I feel for ya bud.

//edit// for an after thought. Keyword density appears non-existent on the main page Phil?

-- Edited by Roof Cleaning Northern Virginia (571) 250 9650 on Tuesday 12th of July 2011 08:25:01 PM

Roof Cleaning Bradenton FL 941-822-2454 · Guest

Dang Ted!!! whos the SEO guru? hmmm..

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Website text is lacking, Ted is right, name your pics, and each service should say, what you do, and WHERE you do it!

Extreme Cleaning Soultions does residental cleaning WHERE ?

Do not assume Google knows, it does not, you must tell it.

If your keywords are roof cleaning baltimore MD, how many times do ALL of them appear ?

You can load up your pics too with keywords, I do not see that done.

Roof Cleaning Severna Park MD · guest

Thanks everyone, I will get to work on it. As much as I like the new look, if it doesn't function the way we need it to, it isn't worth it!

Roof Cleaning Severna Park MD · guest

Ted, you are correct on the keyword density on the main page. All of the keywords worked well with my previous home page, now it's all pictures and no place for text. I'm probably going to end up changing the site again.

The Alt Tags for pictures is something I started toying with yesterday prior to this post, but i just don't see it being enough. The subpages still show up, as do the google places pages, but there has definitely been a drastic change for some keyword phrases that I checked on a regular basis. I think the actual home page holds more weight than subpages, especially with Google.

All of the SEO on my site was done by me, but I traded services with someone to get the site to look more professional and now I think a more text based homepage is definitely necessary for SEO purposes.

Roof Cleaning Severna Park MD · guest

I chose a different word press theme and will work on getting that together this week. It's similar to the theme I have now, but it allows content on the home page as well as showing a different page on the homepage, all of which should help with SEO.

Thanks for the help guys!

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Hope it bounces back quick bud.

Roof Cleaning Cleveland (216) 323-0552 · Jul 13, 2011

Phil, why not have 2 websites?

Liberty SoftWash · Jul 14, 2011

Roof Cleaning Northern Virginia (571) 250 9650 wrote:
Phil - have you paid someone to SEO your website? You have 179 indexed pages indicating that you've either been very busy with web promotion, at this for a long time, or you've hired a company to help out. If it's the latter, you want to make sure there was no link farming involved, nor 'Black hat' SEO.
Your (relative) score on website grader is very good - 88. You have 9 images without alt tags. Not a Google killer buy any means, but worth correcting. Name the pics Roof_Cleaning_"Something".
You'll want to be 100% sure that it's the content change that got ya before changing it. And content is not just on the main page. It could be a number of things.
My website took a major nose dive early this spring when I added some bells and whistles that changed part of the actual file name of my main page. It auto-changed (thanks to GoDaddy's website tonight, POS) from a .htm extension to a php extension and knocked me out of the running for about 4 weeks.
Perhaps Chris T or some of the SEO gurus will jump in here soon. Also remember, it was about 2 weeks ago, that Google re did the page ranks. Some moved up, and others down and or out. Can you trace it to that?
Good luck getting it sorted out. I feel for ya bud.

//edit// for an after thought. Keyword density appears non-existent on the main page Phil?
Ted, just curious how you are able to see the results on Phils web page. I would like to check out mine. I had a website built, www.roofcleaningpa.com and I don't beleive he did anything to help boost my Google ranking. So I built a site www.roofcleaningpa.net thru Godaddy and tried to make it more Google friendly using my knowledge(which isn't much. LOL) I would like to view my info to see if I can make any changes to boost my Google ranking. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

-- Edited by Roof Cleaning Northern Virginia (571) 250 9650 on Tuesday 12th of July 2011 08:25:01 PM

Roof Cleaning Severna Park MD · guest

Hey Tom,

I've got a blog (roofcleanmd.com) and that does well and shows up in the search engines just as my main site does, but the change is more drastic than I was hoping. It's not that I don't show up at all, it's just that my homepage doesn't show up anymore unless google places picks it up.

Now that you mention it, though, I may change the blog website to a roof cleaning only site, with a blog.

Roof Cleaning Cleveland (216) 323-0552 · Jul 14, 2011

Phil, my thought is if you have 2 websites on the front page, that's less space for your competitors. I wanted to do that last winter, but my webgirl didn't like to work.

Roof Cleaning Severna Park MD · guest

Haha, get a new one!

Tom, I have a nice sized graffiti removal job at a church today, looking forward to trying out a different graffiti removal product on a bigger job. I'll let you know how it goes, but it claims to clean in 90 seconds as opposed to 30 minutes.

I'm half way through changing the template, I was able to get most of the images to work from the previous theme with little photoshop work. The content on the front page is a necessity, don't let anyone tell you guys otherwise!

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Roof Cleaning By A&E wrote:
Roof Cleaning Northern Virginia (571) 250 9650 wrote:
Phil - have you paid someone to SEO your website? You have 179 indexed pages indicating that you've either been very busy with web promotion, at this for a long time, or you've hired a company to help out. If it's the latter, you want to make sure there was no link farming involved, nor 'Black hat' SEO.
Your (relative) score on website grader is very good - 88. You have 9 images without alt tags. Not a Google killer buy any means, but worth correcting. Name the pics Roof_Cleaning_"Something".
You'll want to be 100% sure that it's the content change that got ya before changing it. And content is not just on the main page. It could be a number of things.
My website took a major nose dive early this spring when I added some bells and whistles that changed part of the actual file name of my main page. It auto-changed (thanks to GoDaddy's website tonight, POS) from a .htm extension to a php extension and knocked me out of the running for about 4 weeks.
Perhaps Chris T or some of the SEO gurus will jump in here soon. Also remember, it was about 2 weeks ago, that Google re did the page ranks. Some moved up, and others down and or out. Can you trace it to that?
Good luck getting it sorted out. I feel for ya bud.

//edit// for an after thought. Keyword density appears non-existent on the main page Phil?
Ted, just curious how you are able to see the results on Phils web page. I would like to check out mine. I had a website built, www.roofcleaningpa.com and I don't beleive he did anything to help boost my Google ranking. So I built a site www.roofcleaningpa.net thru Godaddy and tried to make it more Google friendly using my knowledge(which isn't much. LOL) I would like to view my info to see if I can make any changes to boost my Google ranking. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

-- Edited by Roof Cleaning Northern Virginia (571) 250 9650 on Tuesday 12th of July 2011 08:25:01 PM

Check out websitegrader.com. It's not Google proof, but it gives some good factual info to look in to and to work with. I was messing around the other day with key words Roof Cleaning, and your web page kept popping up
Let me know if I can help.

Liberty SoftWash · Jul 14, 2011

Thanks Ted
@ Phil didnt want to hijack your thread LOL

Roof Cleaning Severna Park MD · guest

Eric, you didn't hijack the thread, man, we are all here to help one another.

Roof Cleaning Severna Park MD · guest

If anyone feels up to it, can you look at my site now and see what you think?

Liberty SoftWash · Jul 14, 2011

Phil site looks real nice,mine sucks!

Oklahoma Roof Cleaning · Guest

Looks good to me.

Roof Cleaning Severna Park MD · guest

http://www.extremecleaningsolutions.biz/ I feel like the site is pretty good now, I need to tweak some keywords in the body of the home page, but at least there is content there now.

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