Advice and Help with my SEO?

[shortwilderness373]

Hi people,

I was wondering if people here could lend me a hand with the SEO on my companies website.

I run a web and graphic design company in Dorset, UK. Working mainly locally and trying to target local businesses with our services.

the URL is http://www.aztec-online.com

I do have a reasonable SEO knowledge, but I am no expert. I will go through the steps I have already taken to improve my SEO and if there is anything I am doing wrong, or missed out please could you let me know.

Currently we dont rank very well for many keywords except the company name 'Aztec Online' and 17th for 'Web Design Wimborne'. The main keywords I would like to target are, 'Web Design Dorset', 'Web Design Poole', 'Professional Web Design', 'Affordable Web Design' and all these but for graphic design too.

This is what I have currently done on the website: -
Worked on site content, getting a keyword density of about 5 to 10%
Optimised the image tags, with alts, filenames etc
Optmised the Anchor tags, with titles and keywords within them as well as keywords in url
used keywords in title, header tags
made sure my keywords appear near the top and the bottom
made sure google can see all my links
bolded keywords
supplied an address to help it rank bettter locally

I am currently rebuilding a new website at http://www.aztec-online.com/AztecOnline2, which I am going to apply all the correct changes to in order to have a better chance of ranking well.

I have also started to try and build up links by doing the following:-
including a link on every clients website web create
a small amount of blog comments
article submission
related directories and local directorys
google local maps
email marketing
am about to start with a press release
finally a few web design assoications

I dont know what else I can do, and I don't know how long it will take to start ranking. I have pretty much no budget for SEO, but I am also using AdWords.

Can I get some advice from some of the friendly experts on here?

[Karan rana]

Ya i can surely provide a lot of assistance in building more links for your website and improving your search engine rankings as i can provide 500 free directories. I am a expert in seo both on page and off page optimization and you can contact me at karanrana55@gmail.com. I am from India and m currently working as a SEO expert....

[Choicex]

You will need to get your site listed in as many places as possible.

Sounds like you have already done most of the basic SEO stuff

You now need to create awareness and get links to your website

1. submit your website to Google Local Business
2. submit your website to directories
3. consider joining social networking websites
4. join and contribute to Yahoo Answers

If you have products or services to offer submit your website to Google Local Business

This can help you can gain top search results in Google for your products or services using the Local Business service from Google. You will need to register for a googlemail account then submit your website / business details to Google's local business centre.

http://www.google.com/local/add

Marketing your Website using Directories and Website Links

The next step is to get links to your website. This is one of the most important things that you can do to help your website with regard to internet marketing and search engine results. To do this you will need to list your website on as many websites and directories as possible. Directories operate in one of 3 ways: Paid Listing Directory, Free and Reciprocal Link Directories.

Paid Listing Directory: for a listing fee your website is listed, often these are higher quality directories as only serious website owners and business's will pay to be listed. These are usually the fastest way to get listed and get links to your website, as the paid listing directories are run as a business. There are niche/specialist and general directories.

Free Directories: it can take a long time to get your website listed. As the service is free, there may be little or no control of the quality of websites being listed.

DMOZ is the most important free directory, it can take quite some time to get listed, but worth the effort, follow submission guidelines very carefully.

http://www.dmoz.org

Show Me Another is a new websites growing in popularity that provide free listings and when you contribute and submit more sites you are rewarded with extra links to your site.

Automatic Submission feature for registered users can found here:

http://www.showmeanother.com

Social Networking Websites, joining these will connect you with other people with similar interests and these may take an interest in looking at your website

http://www.facebook.com
http://www.twitter.com
http://www.digg.com

Yahoo Answers, answering questions with good information that you have some expertise with. In doing so you will be helping other people and that may lead on to more contacts or people enquiring about your area of knowledge and website.

Good Luck