Comments on: Allow Your Website to Work For You, Not Against You http://www.dotweekly.com/allow-your-website-to-work-for-you-not-against-you/ Fri, 18 May 2012 00:58:46 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Jamie Zoch http://www.dotweekly.com/allow-your-website-to-work-for-you-not-against-you/#comment-5889 Jamie Zoch Thu, 28 May 2009 22:35:02 +0000 http://www.dotweekly.com/?p=1644#comment-5889 Bounce rates can be hard to judge but many play into the load time. Some are due to the user not seeing what they want right away, a bunch of ads (adsense) on the top of the site etc. ~ SEO wise, I think I read that the average "length" of search terms are in the 3-4 word range now so people really need to focus on what people are searching for... plus all of us can't afford the gem generics and as you said only 10 be the King and on P1. Bounce rates can be hard to judge but many play into the load time. Some are due to the user not seeing what they want right away, a bunch of ads (adsense) on the top of the site etc.
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SEO wise, I think I read that the average “length” of search terms are in the 3-4 word range now so people really need to focus on what people are searching for… plus all of us can’t afford the gem generics and as you said only 10 be the King and on P1.

]]> By: Leonard Britt http://www.dotweekly.com/allow-your-website-to-work-for-you-not-against-you/#comment-5888 Leonard Britt Thu, 28 May 2009 21:56:24 +0000 http://www.dotweekly.com/?p=1644#comment-5888 Interesting comment on the hosting account and slow connection. Given bounce rates on many of my sites where the time spent was often ZERO I have to wonder if connection times are an issue. Perhaps many of my foreign visitors have dialup connections and downloading graphics and videos is difficult. Or perhaps the issue lies with my hosting provider-the same place where my domains are registered. I'm not sure. In regards to SEO positioning for generic terms, yes it is difficult because there is tremendous competition and only a handful of sites can make it to the first page. I'm seeing that it is much easier to rank for a multi-word phrase with some search volume than a highly-searched word with millions of results. And acquiring the multi-word domain is likely to be more economical. (i.e. "personal computers" instead of "computers") Interesting comment on the hosting account and slow connection. Given bounce rates on many of my sites where the time spent was often ZERO I have to wonder if connection times are an issue. Perhaps many of my foreign visitors have dialup connections and downloading graphics and videos is difficult. Or perhaps the issue lies with my hosting provider-the same place where my domains are registered. I’m not sure.

In regards to SEO positioning for generic terms, yes it is difficult because there is tremendous competition and only a handful of sites can make it to the first page. I’m seeing that it is much easier to rank for a multi-word phrase with some search volume than a highly-searched word with millions of results. And acquiring the multi-word domain is likely to be more economical. (i.e. “personal computers” instead of “computers”)

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