google results...domain name

richt · March 27, 2006

I'm trying to understand the relatiion between my own domain name and the smug mug name it's directed to

eg. I'm www.richtxxkphotos.com, the name rich txxk is all over my pages, as is "photos".

I google "Rich Txxk", and the highest search results are
www.richtxxk.smugmug.com, and lower is www.richtxxk.com.

Also, one search,fairly high up came up w/an unuseable link..
http://www.richtxxkphotos.com/hack/feed.mg?Type=nickname&Data=richturk&format=rss200

Are these situations avoidable by reconfiging my domain settings??

Andy, I've substituted the xx's in my url on this posting to avoid something else....having posted my whole domain name on past DGRIN forums results in the forum itself coming up as a search result.

tx

rt

Andy · March 27, 2006

richt wrote:

I'm trying to understand the relatiion between my own domain name and the smug mug name it's directed to

eg. I'm www.richtxxkphotos.com, the name rich txxk is all over my pages, as is "photos".

I google "Rich Txxk", and the highest search results are
www.richtxxk.smugmug.com, and lower is www.richtxxk.com.

Also, one search,fairly high up came up w/an unuseable link..
http://www.richtxxkphotos.com/hack/feed.mg?Type=nickname&Data=richturk&format=rss200

Are these situations avoidable by reconfiging my domain settings??

Andy, I've substituted the xx's in my url on this posting to avoid something else....having posted my whole domain name on past DGRIN forums results in the forum itself coming up as a search result.

tx

rt

Rich,
the /hack is a feeds url
it's readable if you put it into an rss capable feed reader (Firefox, Safari, etc)

Keep at the search optimization. Follow the great advice here:

http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=20236
http://www.dgrin.com/showpost.php?p=275493&postcount=39
http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=29215

As to Dgrin posts, with our HIGH HIGH relevance, why would you NOT want to have links here? Do ANYTHING to be found, if you want to be found. Sounds like you want to be found, so, my advice, don't hide

DTMPhotos · March 27, 2006

Google Results
What drives me crazy is that my friggin' DGRIN posts come up BEFORE my SM account! If a client googles me, I want my photog site to come up not my silly dgrin profile...Somethin's not right with that!

D.

Andy · March 27, 2006

DTMPhotos wrote:

What drives me crazy is that my friggin' DGRIN posts come up BEFORE my SM account! If a client googles me, I want my photog site to come up not my silly dgrin profile...Somethin's not right with that!

D.

Follow the great advice here:

http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=20236
http://www.dgrin.com/showpost.php?p=275493&postcount=39
http://www.dgrin.com/showthread.php?t=29215

Have you made a blog? Are you cross-linking on LOTS of other websites? Have you joined the Blog Alliance? Professional groups? How many other websites link your SmugMug site?

Google rankings take HARD WORK. So, my advice,

don't get driven crazy,
go crazy -- doing the things that I and others have been suggesting

Andy · March 27, 2006

DTMPhotos wrote:

What drives me crazy is that my friggin' DGRIN posts come up BEFORE my SM account! If a client googles me, I want my photog site to come up not my silly dgrin profile...Somethin's not right with that!

D.

Hi DTM, I've just looked at your wedding promo gallery - where are the keywords???

Get to work, my friend. Keywords are your best tool!

dogwood · March 27, 2006

keywords
Gotta agree with Andy-- keyword everything you post. I've even used some bigger text (h1 & h2) for gallery descriptions that just say "Pete Springer Photography" and then I hide the descriptions so they're not visible. Yeah, the dgrin stuff shows up in a google search, but my domain always shows up first. In fact, there are at least a dozen other folks named Springer who have photography websites around the country, but when you enter "springer photography" in google, mine is the first listing. I don't even pretend to understand this web design/coding stuff-- but I gotta hand it to smugmug, they did a great job designing it so I can stumble my way through it and concentrate on my photography.

DTMPhotos · March 28, 2006

Andy wrote:

Hi DTM, I've just looked at your wedding promo gallery - where are the keywords???

Get to work, my friend. Keywords are your best tool!

Hi Andy...Ya gotta understand that I'm not using my gallery for "cold calls". If someone googles me it's likely because they (hard to believe) have forgotten the website so they goggle my company name. I just think it's funny that they will find DGRIN profile before my SM gallery.

Thanks for the good advice though!

D.

Mike Lane · March 28, 2006

dogwood wrote:

Gotta agree with Andy-- keyword everything you post. I've even used some bigger text (h1 & h2) for gallery descriptions that just say "Pete Springer Photography" and then I hide the descriptions so they're not visible.

From all that I've read, that is a tactic that may very well get you blacklisted on google.

devbobo · March 28, 2006

DTMPhotos wrote:

What drives me crazy is that my friggin' DGRIN posts come up BEFORE my SM account! If a client googles me, I want my photog site to come up not my silly dgrin profile...Somethin's not right with that!

D.

perhaps you should have chosen a dgrin profile that isn't the same name as your company/domain name. That way there would be not conflict.

richt · March 28, 2006

hiding key words, name, etc
Simple question from the html/css impaired....how do you "hide" text you've typed in???

dogwood wrote:

Gotta agree with Andy-- keyword everything you post. I've even used some bigger text (h1 & h2) for gallery descriptions that just say "Pete Springer Photography" and then I hide the descriptions so they're not visible. Yeah, the dgrin stuff shows up in a google search, but my domain always shows up first. In fact, there are at least a dozen other folks named Springer who have photography websites around the country, but when you enter "springer photography" in google, mine is the first listing. I don't even pretend to understand this web design/coding stuff-- but I gotta hand it to smugmug, they did a great job designing it so I can stumble my way through it and concentrate on my photography.

Mike Lane · March 28, 2006

richt wrote:

Simple question from the html/css impaired....how do you "hide" text you've typed in???

[COLOR=Red]selector [/COLOR]{display:none;}
[COLOR=Red]selector [/COLOR]{visibility:hidden;}
[COLOR=Red]selector[/COLOR] {background-color:#000; color:#000;}

Those things in red are generic and won't mean anything. You'll have to replace them with something that corresponds to an ID or class of an element or ancestor of an element you wish to change.

Again, getting google rankings like this is liable to get you blacklisted. That's bad.

dogwood · March 28, 2006

blacklisted
Mike knows way more about this than I do-- so take my advice with a big dose of salt. I haven't personally had a problem with getting "blacklisted" by google for hidden h1 & h2 text... but I have noticed when I simply list photo credits in regular text (ie photographer pete springer, make-up kristen arnett, model susie creamcheese, etc) in my gallery descriptions, they get listed prominently on google. I know, I know -- it seems counter-intuitive to list yourself as a photographer on your own website-- but google seems to like it.

But again, Mike knows WAY more about this than me-- so don't take my advice too seriously.

Mike Lane · March 28, 2006

dogwood wrote:

Mike knows way more about this than I do-- so take my advice with a big dose of salt. I haven't personally had a problem with getting "blacklisted" by google for hidden h1 & h2 text... but I have noticed when I simply list photo credits in regular text (ie photographer pete springer, make-up kristen arnett, model susie creamcheese, etc) in my gallery descriptions, they get listed prominently on google. I know, I know -- it seems counter-intuitive to list yourself as a photographer on your own website-- but google seems to like it.

But again, Mike knows WAY more about this than me-- so don't take my advice too seriously.

I'm not SEO pro or anything. All I'm saying, from what I've read is that sort of thing can be a factor in getting you blacklisted.

The fact of the matter is google is notorious about not telling people what will get you blacklisted. They are getting sued for it in fact. So what I read should be what gets the grain of salt. We do know that using headers correctly plays a big part in getting search results in google. So we think that abusing headers may get you the boot if you're not careful.

google results...domain name

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