Where can I find this code and..

jfriend

zoomer wrote:

Thanks Frankc,
I have read that a couple times but my eyes tell me different when I look at the sites listed on page 1 and 2 of google has the keyword phrase right there in the meta keywords...

I have made the suggested changes to my site regarding keywords and title page wedding addition. We will see.......

On a slightly different note:
In doing my keywords search it tells me that the word Bull is listed on my site like 100 times. As far as I can see the word Bull is nowhere on my site.
Can anyone see where that is and steer me towards how to remove it.
Thanks

Is there a reason you're using http://www.alloutdoor.smugmug.com/ instead of http://alloutdoor.smugmug.com/? The "www." is not needed.

I wonder if Google could be diluting your importance because of the two different ways to reach your site. I never use www in front of my sites.

zoomer

Well I don't think so.
My site comes up right at the top if you search All Outdoor Photography and for most other searches of any kind for people photography in Boise I am at the top or close to it.

Just for some reason "boise wedding photographer" which is my key phrase seems to be invisible to Google from my site.

I wonder if my paid add for that phrase, which puts me at the very top of the page for that keyword phrase, is disqualifying me somehow for that search phrase in the organic search.

zoomer

jfriend wrote:

Is there a reason you're using http://www.alloutdoor.smugmug.com/ instead of http://alloutdoor.smugmug.com/? The "www." is not needed.

I wonder if Google could be diluting your importance because of the two different ways to reach your site. I never use www in front of my sites.

Where are you seeing that there are two different addresses?
Thanks

jfriend

zoomer wrote:

Where are you seeing that there are two different addresses?
Thanks

You are using the one with www in it. Smugmug uses one without the www in pages like these:

http://www.smugmug.com/community/Portraits
http://www.smugmug.com/search/index.mg?searchWords=boise+wedding&searchType=global&x=0&y=0

zoomer

Yeah I see that now....that is kind of weird.
Hopefully they are interchangeable if not I would not know what to do about it.

FrankC

zoomer wrote:

Thanks Frankc,
I have read that a couple times but my eyes tell me different when I look at the sites listed on page 1 and 2 of google has the keyword phrase right there in the meta keywords...

Sure they may be there - but that doesn't mean it's the reason they're on page 1 and 2.
"Keyword Phrase" comes from content, not meta keywords.

jfriend

zoomer wrote:

Yeah I see that now....that is kind of weird.
Hopefully they are interchangeable if not I would not know what to do about it.

It's not weird at all.

http://www.alloutdoor.smugmug.com/

is NOT your correct address. That is something that Smugmug makes work in order to support viewers who might type the www.

You should be using:

http://alloutdoor.smugmug.com/

anywhere you link your site or send out links to your site. Besides being shorter, it also may be faster the first time it's accessed.

richpepp

zoomer wrote:

Hopefully they are interchangeable if not I would not know what to do about it.

They are interchangeable to humans and seem to work but Google would prefer if you standardize on one. See the first four minutes of this http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cm9onOGTgeM

As far as I can see you are using the www in you link in your footer (and probably elsewhere) and then another strange one http://alloutdoor.www.smugmug.com in your 'Pricing' menu.

I wonder if my paid add for that phrase, which puts me at the very top of the page for that keyword phrase, is disqualifying me somehow for that search phrase in the organic search.

Google claim categorically that using adwords neither bumps you up or down in the main search.

Rich

richpepp

zoomer wrote:

In doing my keywords search it tells me that the word Bull is listed on my site like 100 times. As far as I can see the word Bull is nowhere on my site.

I just remembered where I saw this before. My guess is that the keyword search is mistakenly picking up the '&bull' html code which puts the bullets in front of various things such as the image size selectors. There is nothing you can do about it and I'm not sure that it is a problem

zoomer

jfriend wrote:

Is there a reason you're using http://www.alloutdoor.smugmug.com/ instead of http://alloutdoor.smugmug.com/? The "www." is not needed.

I wonder if Google could be diluting your importance because of the two different ways to reach your site. I never use www in front of my sites.

YES
I ran a google analytics check on each of these, seems I am getting appx. 80 visitors a day on www.alloutdoor and 40 visitors a day on just alloutdoor.

So yes it is diluting the data.
Any ideas on what I need to do to get everything onto the one site which from what I understand should be the just alloutdoor. site.

Thanks

jfriend

zoomer wrote:

YES
I ran a google analytics check on each of these, seems I am getting appx. 80 visitors a day on www.alloutdoor and 40 visitors a day on just alloutdoor.

So yes it is diluting the data.
Any ideas on what I need to do to get everything onto the one site which from what I understand should be the just alloutdoor. site.

Thanks

As best I know, you need to do the following:

• Start giving out only the http://alloutdoor.smugmug.com link yourself (no www.).
• Change all references you've put anywhere on other sites to http://alloutdoor.smugmug.com.
• Make sure all links you have in your navbar and anywhere else in your site point to http://alloutdoor.smugmug.com, not http://www.alloutdoor.smugmug.com. If you're using relative links, you may want to change them to absolute links so even if someone arrives on your site as http://www.alloutdoor.smugmug.com, they will get changed to http://alloutdoor.smugmug.com if they click on your navbar.

Because I never ever gave anyone my site with www in front of it and thus there are no links in the world that way, Google doesn't know about that form of my site.

zoomer

Thanks Jfriend,
Looks like this is a monster of my own creation then. I will follow your advice.
Thanks!