SkillClear.co.uk - interested in your thoughts

Spooky · #1 (**permalink**) 11-29-2004, 08:01 AM

Hi all,

Would be very interested to know what you all think of www.skillclear.co.uk - recently made changes to the hsmp pages and canada pages, suddenly great on yahoo, then suddenly showed the OLD pages (even though they are not up there (301 redirects to new ones) - some very odd things happening in the search engines, some good, then bad, then good again.... any ideas or thoughts much appreciated!

Firwefly · #2 (**permalink**) 11-29-2004, 06:28 PM

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some very odd things happening in the search engines, some good, then bad, then good again....

Google just reverted to its old index.

OK title:

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<title>SkillClear - Work Permit, Visa and Immigration Consultants</title>

You're not going to help a Burundian live in Peru, I suspect, so maybe add the main countries - you've three words free.

In keywords, I smiled at:

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where can i find

Nor sure if this is a joke, or being clever...
Remeber that commas don't count (and Google doesn't read the keywords tag). So look at this run:

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skills, skill shortage, skills shortage, shortage,

See anything wrong? Again:

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clearance centre, clearance, centre, center, clearance center,

I think that your site is attractive, looks professional, is mainly text-based (which is good) and the images are small and bright (also good).

If smoking is banned in the UK, I will be knocking on your door.

Spooky · #3 (**permalink**) 11-30-2004, 05:06 AM

Hi John,

Thanks for your reply - if they ban smoking I'll be using our services as well!

Very interested in your comments about keywords - does it apply equally for all the major search engines (not reading the commas)? On that basis I guess I should have a keyword string that does not duplicate words but includes them in an order that captures the major key-phrases that I am targetting - would that be on the right lines?

Oh, and it wasn't just on Google that the old pages were showing - happened on Yahoo and, I think, MSN...

Thanks for the assistance - much appreciated - off to have a cigarette now (while I can).

Regards,

Dean

Firwefly · #4 (**permalink**) 11-30-2004, 05:56 AM

Hi Dean!

Keywords are still worth having, as some major SE still use them. I mention it because it stresses how important the title tag is.

You can duplicate keywords, but be careful on this, I may be wrong, but I think that some of the SE may stop reading uppon reaching the duplicate. I woud put 'skills' before 'skill' because the second is within the first and will therefore do the same job. if you must have 'skill', place it near the end, so the important ones are read before a SE cuts off.

Don't use sentences in keywords, as you don't want to be indexed on irrelevant words such as 'I'. Neat idea though, as you've realised that some people may search on phrases.

Not sure what's happening with SE right now. With buy-outs, betas and Google going backwards, it's a mess.

Feel free to join my Club and ask for more.

Cheers!
John