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Can anyone help me to leap up the Google listings for my cycling team. *I need to come up on a number of different searches...* cycling clubs west London, cycling clubs north west London, cycling clubs London, cycling clubs Hertfordshire (also Herts), cycling clubs Middlesex... and also the singular of these (cycling club...). At the moment, after advice I've renamed as follows:-
the Site: cycling-clubs
Home page: west london_cyclingclub
About Us page: About Us_Londonclub
and the other pages are as listed in our menu. Any advice appreciated.
Site: www.gregarios.co.uk
I've also put in a Google html code in the pages listing (**** I can't remember what that was about!)
Sorry if I sound a bit vague but I'm a newbie and don't really know what I'm doing, or understand jargon... so advice plus steps would be useful.

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Posted on Sep 2, 2008 8:30 AM

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Sep 2, 2008 9:47 AM in response to ca1eDonia

1) You need to change your title tags to include the keywords you want to rank high for.
2) You need incoming links from other websites
3) You need to include your keywords on your page

This takes time and is not easy to do. See our free SEO Guide for more details and instructions on what you can do to improve your rankings.

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Sep 2, 2008 9:58 AM in response to ca1eDonia

There are so many cycling clubs in London and the South East that you definitely need some keywords that you think people will be searching for. http://www.gregarios.co.uk doesn't at first appear unless you search for an Italian cycling club. Also I agree with the previous poster that linking to other sites helps - perhaps if the club if affiliated to an organisation then a link from that site may help.
My riding club site is linked to several other sites with whom I have reciprical links. Adverts in the cycling press might be a good start, I have ads in free equestrian papers for our events. They all show up in Google.

Sep 6, 2008 1:10 PM in response to Hazell

Well I'm assuming a "keyword" is just an important word word relating to the subject.
In that case the site is laced with them, and also I have lots of links from other cycling sites.
Still we are coming way down in basic searches ie cycling clubs west London, and cycling clubs London (it is a better result for North West London - but still bottom of page 2). I'm still looking for a big breakthrough, I mean there is even an Indian Restaurant and an Edinburgh Club beating us in some of the London searches!
Any other ideas welcome!
site: www.gregarios.co.uk

Sep 6, 2008 1:16 PM in response to ca1eDonia

These things take time. It often takes months if not years to get high rankings for competitive keywords. There is no secret or quick fix.

But as I said what you have to do right now is change your title tags to include these keywords. Make each title tag different and contain 2 - 3 keywords or keyword phrases. That will significantly help your search engine rankings.

Sep 9, 2008 1:59 AM in response to ragesw

ragesw wrote:
These things take time. It often takes months if not years to get high rankings for competitive keywords. There is no secret or quick fix.

But as I said what you have to do right now is change your title tags to include these keywords. Make each title tag different and contain 2 - 3 keywords or keyword phrases. That will significantly help your search engine rankings.

Thanks for that... but what exactly, and where... is the *title tag*?
Please confirm, this the name of the page that I create in Iweb? Can this be totally different to the name of the page on the website menu??
For instance the About Us page (website) is called About Us_LondonClub on the left menu in iWeb.
The Home or landing page on the website is called "west london_cyclingclub" > Is that what you mean, and is this where I need to improve the wording?
One of my problems is that people are likely to search under many different criteria for instance: cycling clubs (also maybe club) + different areas ie London, West London, North West London, Hertfordshire (also maybe Herts), Middlesex. How would I approach this?
As an example in google:- cycling clubs Herts (page 7) - cycling clubs Hertfordshire (page 10)... not good! Our best is cycling clubs North West London (page 2 or 3), yet West London is page 6-8.

Sep 9, 2008 2:16 AM in response to Roddy

Hi
Thanks for that link.
Well I'm struggling with the instructions. i don't understand why I have to register with dmoz - the site is up and running. Is this step for sites before they are officially on line? Also, I don't know what (or where) a CNAME is!!!
Regarding the very first instruction...
+Please note that in the whole process whenever asked for a URL you have to give Google. Your personal domain http://www.yourdomain.com using CNAME if you have one. If not submit http://web.me.com/username/ If your personal domain doesn’t use CNAME submit http://web.me.com/username/ and not your registered domain name (Read Note 2 at the end of the page to know why+)
Well what is that about? The website is www.gregarios.co.uk - what else do they want, and where do I find it??? And... there are 11 more instructions. Hmmm.

Sep 9, 2008 11:00 AM in response to ca1eDonia

Register your URL - www.gregarios.co.uk - with Google at.....

http://www.google.com/addurl/?continue=/addurl

Use your web.me.com URL to give Google the location of your sitemap.

If you are uploading your sitemap to Finder/Go/iDisk/My iDisk/Web/Sites folder the sitemap URL is ...

http://web.me.com/username/

and the sitemap can be found at ...

http://web.me.com/username/sitemap.xml

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