SEOReview – Countrypleasures.com.au
This is the first edition of my new weekly topic: SEOReview. This week the review is about the website of Country Pleasures, an Australian Bed&Breakfast based in Angaston (South-Australia).
Please note that these reviews are only about SEO and never about the visual experience of a website.
When I open the website there is a nice flash animation that shows some quotes. I assume they are written or told by actual customers. Although it’s a good thing to show what people like, using flash in an intro page is never a good idea for SEO.
1. Can search engines browse through this website properly?
This brings me to tip number 1: Get rid of the introduction page and add the flash animation to the first real webpage with text. Not only are search engines a bit confused about your content (they can’t read flash well), your visitors also will be lost and click away from your website, before opening the real webpages.
2. Is there enough interesting information for tourists?
Tip number 2 is about the text and content on the website. There should be more webpages with interesting information. At this moment there are only 3 webpages. Country Pleasures needs to create a lot more pages with free information about Angaston and its surroundings. Make it interesting for tourists! Show them why they should choose for Angaston.
3. Are the webpages optimized for the right keywords?
Optimizing the webpages for important keywords is tip number 3. Currently the most important keywords (accommodation Angaston and Angaston hotels) are not optimized on the website. They need to be added to the <title> and <meta name=description> of the first webpage. Find more keywords with the Google AdWords Keyword Tool.
4. Are there many quality links to your website?
The last important tip, number 4, is that Country Pleasures needs to collect a lot more links on other websites, pointing to their webpages. With only 18 incoming links to the current website, search engines will not think the website is important or needs to be listed in search engines for specific keywords.
Get more links by using the methods listed in my older posts:
Thanks to Country Pleasures and I hope you will get started with improving your SEO right away.
Next week I will be reviewing another travel, tourism or hospitality website. Want your website reviewed? E-mail me at SEOsecretsTravel@gmail.com.
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That’s great, I never thought about Countrypleasures.com.au like that before.
Hi Maurice,
Link provided in this post doesn’t work
http://www.seosecretstravel.com/2009/05/19/quick-start-guide-for-travel-linkbuilding/
Cheers,
P.S. What plugin are you are using for social networks buttons in bottom of your posts ? Thanks
Thanks for the info, I want to focus on computer repair tips for my blog but didnt know where to start.
:O So mush Info :O
Good tips all around. This will be very helpful not only for Jo but also to other webmasters. There are some pointers here I would even try to use on my pet project. Thanks!
Dear Maurice,
Thank you so much for the review, your advice and tips for my business have been embraced. I’m so very grateful and as you can probably see I have already taken your advice & steps to create a more active site. I have had help from my web master, Ann Marie (who had found your site just days ago) and she has educated me in using Google Analytics and the web master tools. I’m currently working on up dating information on our Village Angaston in the Barossa Valley: I feel I’m going to have a lot of fun networking a little more with other businesses to get my links all actively working. I will be keeping my eye on your site as I feel it is a site where I can increase my knowledge on my product marketing. Im also enjoying exploring all your ‘Links’. I will touch base with you occasionally to let you know how your advice has gone. Thank you again sincerely. Jo
Hello Jo,
It was my pleasure! I’m really happy about your response as well. This is why I have this blog. To share my passion about SEO and helping starters get some good rankings in Google.
Would love to hear more from you about the results.
- Maurice
Hi Maurice, this is really really helpful, thanks very much
Jerry