New to SEO and need some help and advice

23 Sep 12 8:02 pm

Hi Steve, I'm not sure what you mean when you say "show with 0 google backlinks". Are you talking about when you are logged into Google Webmaster Tools, that they are not showing you any? Let me know.

For better SEO try these things to start with:

1) In your meta title try to repeat the term tankless water heater like: "Tankless Water Heaters - Buy Titan Tankless Digital Water Heaters"

2) H1 & H2 tags would help on the home page, as close to the top as possible. Do something like:
<h1>Why buy a Titan Tankless Water Heater?</h1>
<h2>Lets start with the obvious benefits of owning a Titan Tankless Water Heater. How does endless hot water sound?</h2>

3) Instead of "Why Tankless" rename the link next to Home in the main navigation "Tankless Water Heaters" or "Tankless Water Heaters?"

4) All the text in the image http://titantankless.com/images/Titan_Tankless_Home.jpg
should be actual text so the search engine spiders can read it. This part of your website (above the fold on the home page) is valuable real estate in terms of SEO, make good use of it by separating the text & images if you can.

5) You need to reverse engineer what your top competition is doing. Your site has 202 backlinks which is not bad. Titanheater.com however has 365 and a lot of their links are better quality links. Your backlinks have AC ranks of 0-3 ( see: http://www.majesticseo.com/support/glossary#ACRank )

Try getting backlinks (paid or otherwise) from the following sites if you are able:

Backlinks Titanheater.com has:

ACRank 7:
ANCHOR TEXT: tankless water heaters
http://www.chilipepperapp.com/tankless.htm

ACRank 5:
ANCHOR TEXT: titan tankless water heater
http://www.terrylove.com/wh.htm
ANCHOR TEXT: titan tankless water heater corporate website
http://www.bestelectrictanklesswaterheater.com/titan
ANCHOR TEXT: titan tankless water heaters
http://www.bestelectrictanklesswaterhea ... ter-heater
http://www.bestelectrictanklesswaterhea ... ter-heater

ACRank 4:
ANCHOR TEXT: titan tankless water heaters
http://inspectapedia.com/plumbing/Tankl ... eaters.htm
http://tanklessguide.com/tankless-water-heaters/titan
ANCHOR TEXT: tankless water heaters
http://tanklesswaterheatertoday.com/tan ... ter-heater
ANCHOR TEXT: titan
http://waterheateruniversity.com/water- ... links.html


From Tanklesswaterheater.com:

ACRank 6
ANCHOR TEXT: electric tankless hot water heaters
http://www.affordablecraftsmen.net/home ... ta-atlanta

ACRank 5
ANCHOR TEXT: niagra industries
http://www.phccglaa.org/assoc_Support.htm

ACRank 4
ANCHOR TEXT: tankless water heater
http://www.internetvacationzone.com/are ... _sites.htm
ANCHOR TEXT:
http://www.goldbergforeignexchange.com/ ... -links.htm
ANCHOR TEXT: niagra industries
http://www.phcc.com/links.html
ANCHOR TEXT: titan
http://www.shelllumber.com/departments-2
http://www.shelllumber.com/549
http://www.shelllumber.com/contact
http://www.shelllumber.com/hardware store
http://www.shelllumber.com/services
ANCHOR TEXT: niagara industries, inc.
http://www.usalinker.com/miami_florida.html
ANCHOR TEXT: water heater .com
http://www.oregoncoastpacifica.com/area ... _sites.htm
ANCHOR TEXT: niagra tankless water heaters
http://www.sternbrothersplumbingsupply.com

If you email me I'll send you a bunch more which I can extract from your competition #1-9 on page one of Google for the term "titan tankless water heater" or even "tankless water heater".

6) Try to embed helpful links to other sites on some of your pages. So on the "http://titantankless.com/catalog/why-tankless.html" page have let's say 3 or 4 links that point to helpful web pages that would help your customers make an informed decision. This is good for customer service and for SEO, the search engines like this "good will". A resources page like this would also be beneficial to your site as a whole.

7) Your top competition has Yahoo Directory Listings. I think it would be worth the $300yr. to get your site listed: http://dir.yahoo.com/Business_and_Econo ... /Tankless/

8) Right now Google is indexing 89 of your pages. These are the pages they deem relevant:

https://www.google.com/#q=site:titantan ... 80&bih=899

9) I'm not sure why TrafficTravis is giving you problems with the key phrase (or SEO phrase) tankless water heaters. If anything you should be getting a warning that it is being over-used.

To learn more try reading:
The Beginner's Guide to SEO, an article from SEOMOZ: http://www.seomoz.org/beginners-guide-to-seo

Beginner's Checklist for Small Business SEO, an article from SEOMOZ: http://www.seomoz.org/blog/the-beginner ... siness-seo

The free SEO Fast Start ebook download page: http://www.seofaststart.com/download/

131 Legitimate Link Building Strategies an article from Search Engine Watch: http://searchenginewatch.com/article/20 ... Strategies

Learning SEO From the Experts, an ebook download page from HubSpot: http://www.hubspot.com/learning-seo-from-experts-guide

http://www.squidoo.com/seochecklist

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/how-to-do-a-site-audit


I could go on and on but hopefully that will get you started. Write me if you have any questions.
http://leadrabbit.com/work-with-us/

Brian

24 Sep 12 6:13 pm

Thank you so much for the help Brian. You definitely know what you are doing and I very much appreciate it. I am going to try to implement all of your suggestions and see what I can do to improve things but this is a fantastic start for me and I have learned so much from your suggestions.

Michellerana I am going to get the newest version set up of TT and do another assessment of my site.

The SEO world is tough and its nice to know I found a reliable place where I can find helpful information, learn and improve my site on my own.

My best to all