Jo Ann wrote:
....Yesterday was indeed a dark day without a doubt, ready to hang it up it was that bad. Just get so frustrating because all these places with SEO help, all say this that or the other thing, and I've already done what they are saying isn't there which really gets frustrating,...
Must be the first ever despondent-sounding post from you, Jo Ann. That's just not like you at all!!
A couple of thoughts:
1. Dave's recent posts make a lot of sense to me. The way I read them is that SEO is not necessarily a separate, mystical science, but more a question of common sense based on a few key rules. The words in the title and key word lists are critical and they need to be "real" in the sense that they must appear in the text on the associated page(s). (Etc., etc...)
2. You have picked a very competitive field! When I do some Google searches and use search words to deliberately target your site, I end up with just tons of sites! If you imagine your specific
target audience and then try to imagine what search words they might use in Google to find the particular stuff that you offer. Then take a very close look at the top 10 or top 20 sites that pop up when you use those search terms. What sets those sites apart? What do they have, in terms of titles and key words and a lot of other considerations, that maybe you don't have?
3. Many of the words in your title and key word lists are very general, like: accessories, african, ethnic, unique, etc.. This means you may disppear in a huge crowd! You may need to add some
specificity, wherever possible, in order to stand out. A lot of your African clothes seem to be West African (Nigeria?, Benin?, Ghana?,....).
You may want to consider listing some specific countries of origin of some of your items in titles and key word lists. Remember that Africa is a huge continent with 50 countries and almost a billion people. There are great variations in cultures!
In comparison, I notice that you list "Peruvian" rather than "South American". Why not give some African countries the same honor? Some people may search specifically for "Nigerian clothes" or "jewellery from Ghana" and if you have some of those title- or key words, you would really stand out!
I make absolutely no claims on any kind of expertise in SEO, but I do belive in simplicity and logic and "empirical evidence" and all those things!