Needing an SEO person- BAD

GregS · #1 (**permalink**) 03-22-2006, 06:18 PM

Hi, I have posted a couple of times on here under the marketing forums, but I am wanting to speak with someone about doing some work on my site. I know there is a forum for that on here, but I wanted to get your opinion on who would be a good choice, before I go look.
Thanks,
Greg

freehits · #2 (**permalink**) 03-22-2006, 10:35 PM

Greg you should post the site, i assume its the one in your profile.
You should post perhaps what type of cart script that is you are running and get someone experienced with it in particular.

The site is ASP, which I know I dont touch, and likely alot of other would be disqualified the same way.

Then Id talk about the goal of the site or what you want it to improve in.

All this will get you alot of free advice first, and a better grounds to finding someone to help you.

All just my .02

**ctabuk** · #3 (**permalink**) 03-23-2006, 08:14 AM

Now I've mananged to get to your site. First thing I'd do would to concentrate on the most likely search term 'Survival Kits' Anyway, that report you have wanted is done. So PM me your e-mail address and mark it Survival - cheers David

GregS · #4 (**permalink**) 03-23-2006, 11:14 AM

Okay, here is my ignorance coming through, full bore. And precisely why I need an SEO person. The site is www.Prepare4disaster.com and by ASP site do you mean template site? Why won't anyone touch them, and can you recommend or steer me in the direction of someone who does? The cart script?...Let me know what you think, and HOPEFULLY someone will recommend someone to me. I have gotten 2 solicitations from the earlier post, but I don't know these people or where they came from.
Thanks in advance,
Greg

cyanide · #5 (**permalink**) 03-23-2006, 11:36 AM

HI Greg,

One of the reasons some people may not touch an asp site, is because it is coded/database driven, which requires someone to not only be fluent in seo, but knowledge in asp/databases.

GregS · #6 (**permalink**) 03-23-2006, 01:01 PM

David,
Got the report, and thank you very much. Is it going to be able for me to go in and make some changes on this site with the info given as it is a database driven site? Anybody got anybody in mind yet to recommend to me for SEO help???????
A response to this question would sincerely be appreciated.

freehits · #7 (**permalink**) 03-24-2006, 01:14 AM

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Originally Posted by GregS

Why won't anyone touch themGreg

Think you misquoted me.
I wont touch ASP sites And i assume many others wont as well. I program with PHP exclusively, love it, love it.

And due to this I have never spent any time with an ASP site. I think many people on here are PHPs killed and not ASP so much, though I am sure some are the other side of this coin as well.

Just my 02

williamc · #8 (**permalink**) 03-28-2006, 01:25 AM

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Originally Posted by GregS

David,
Got the report, and thank you very much. Is it going to be able for me to go in and make some changes on this site with the info given as it is a database driven site? Anybody got anybody in mind yet to recommend to me for SEO help???????
A response to this question would sincerely be appreciated.

First off, you need more than an SEO. Most SEO's dont know enough about coding to be able to manipulate database data well enough to make enough of an impact. Second off they must be familliar with ASP code, which while not a bad thing, is not as readily accepted as PHP.

There are a number of people here who could help you. To be honest, I could easily, however I am buried and not taking new contracts presently. You could talk to a number of the people here who can show rankings achieved for actual competitive terms, that would be the first question you should ask any prospective optimizer. If all they can show are non-competitive keywords they are ranking for then run, dont walk.

2 people I would suggest here that can show you definite examples are Janeth or Mel. i think both are accepting new clients still.

**ctabuk** · #9 (**permalink**) 03-28-2006, 03:08 AM

I agree with williamc a IBP report is useful, but it is a guideline, more for use in finding your competitors SEO, keywords, directories etc. I would add faglork to the list.

**incrediblehelp** · #10 (**permalink**) 04-03-2006, 02:11 PM

Greg first thing you need to do is get rid of the session ids in your URL strings. The search enigines will have trouble crawling your URLs those in them.

pablowerk · #11 (**permalink**) 04-04-2006, 06:09 PM

hello Greg,

Have you found an ASP/db Seo person yet?

You mentioned that this was a template site. Do you have access to the code and db? or do you have to logon to a 3rd party site in order to make updates to your content?

ASP/DB SEO stuff really is not all that scary... I've been doing it for almost 2 years now.

Let me know if I can be of any help.

GregS · #12 (**permalink**) 04-05-2006, 07:38 AM

Hey guys,
I was reading the headline article on the site today about Ecommerce site optimization and remembered someone had put something on here about my long urls containing such long titles w/ session id tags. LOL, every single page except the homepage is that way. Although, they are all individually listed in Google. Do I leave them alone because of this. To be honest, some of them rank really well for certain key terms. I think I would leave the ones alone for the info pages and change the ones for the product pages. The info pages rank high for (hurricane survival tips, Tornado tips, etc...) Great for content, lousy for sales. If someone wants to look at the site again to see what I mean, how do I change the urls without screwing it up? Oh, yeah I am also shortening the text on the front page, adding need content, redesigning my logo, just kind of trying to udate it a bit. Lookin kind of old.

Oh yeah, the software is 3rd party platform to make changes to the site. Changes to categories, products, etc...

**incrediblehelp** · #13 (**permalink**) 04-05-2006, 01:00 PM

Yes Greg I think I mentioned it. You should not use the session ID within your URL string. Fixing this depends on many factors and I recommend you research it online first. Bottom line is you either get rid of them in the URL string or you use a IP delivery method to serve the URLs without the session ID variables to the spiders and let everyone else see the session ID.