When, oh when??????

Hi everybody

I'm wondering how long I should wait for improvements in the Google positioning of my "career plan" page (SEOMoz term targeting rated A, 16 July 2010). This page doesn't appear on the first 7 pages of Google. By contrast, halfway down the first page of Google is a D rated competitor.

When I look at this page on my site, the Google toolbar says it "does not rank page" (ie it's grey).

Do these facts in combination mean Google doesn't see my "career plan" page at all (and if so, what's the most likely problem?) or is it just being a bit slow to pick it up, please?

Yours hopefully

Linda

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Linda - can you post a link to the page so we can see it?

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Thanks Tomsk, I'm grateful.

It's Career planning, career plan, career coach | Careers Partnership (UK).

This page has several of my blog items linked to it, so Google should have picked it up. It's not the only page on the site that's grey, though.

Best wishes

Linda

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Hi Linda,

Who is doing your SEO for you? It's very likely they could just be taking your money and not actually doing anything for your site, I noticed it was designed by Creative Eye.. not sure about that myself, seems a bit dodgy

Then again it could just be Google itself, sometimes it takes a while to cache sites. You should generally see results in your SEO within 2-3months, depending how good the company is and also depending on what keywords you are using. It usually just takes some time and alot of work.

Mike from I4.

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Hi Linda

Don't be misled by the google toolbar, they only update that now every 6 months, so it's not a true indicator of the current PR of your site. Allegedly its because Google want to downplay the relevance and peoples obsession with PR, which after all, is only a Google marketing gimmick.

Lots of different SEO forum posts about the truth of this, but there was a google blog that tried to downplay PR, and stated there were lots of other indicators that will now determine your postion in the SERPs.

Trouble is, we are all obssesed by it!

From a SEO standpoint, ie link building, promotion, content , keywords etc, I always reckon on giving any changes 90 days. This does make it a slow tedious process, and is one of the reasons a lot of people will say you never stop SEO'ing your site!

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Linda if you have an inner page you want to promote that has a lot of competition you need to promote is like your homepage and give it a link building program of its own.

An allintitle search shows lots of competition for the term career planning (147k results) however career planning advice gives (2820 results) and career planning help shows (731 results)

I would suggest a slight change in title tags and description to target the easier searches.

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Lots of "thank you"s to express; and a little bit of updating. I might have to stop in the middle to get CreativeEye's advice as one of my site text alterations has had unexpected and unwelcome results!!!

Tomsk - Following up your advice again, with grateful thanks. Have now rewritten text of page, titles & metadescription aiming for career planning advice (260 local visits), career planning assessment (880 local visits) and career planning resources (210 local visits - but may change this as can't weave resources often enough into the text).

I checked the allintitles data for each of the amended keywords and they seem encouraging. I've also tried to learn a bit about what these allintitles,allinanchor etc tools do but have only had a very superficial look.

Properly promoting the site's inner pages is something I recognise I've got to do, when I can.

sjr4x4 - Thanks for the reassurance about the google tool bar. I hadn't realised there was such a huge interval before it was updated, now I know I'll stop fretting.

14Visual - Thanks for the feedback. The main problem with the site's SEO is the fact I'm doing it! SEO isn't something for intelligent but ignorant amateurs but that's how it has to be at the moment. CreativeEye hasn't any responsibility for my mistakes (for which they're probably very grateful!).

Will let you know how it goes. Thanks again to everybody, I do appreciate your input.

Linda

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Linda

Are you sure the page you referenced in your link has been indexed by google?

I did a site check and could not see it, google is showing a total of 54 pages indexed for your site.

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Hey Linda

That's good that you're doing the SEO yourself, I just assumed there was a company doing it for you. You will learn from the experience
Keep on going, the more you learn about the whole thing, the better. Ignorance is no good!
SEO is such a major factor in Website Development, it's important to put time into it ^^

The best of luck!

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Hi Tomsk

Yes, it's there. I've changed the title tags though so that's changed what the page is "called".

Your link helped me though cos it's highlighted points I need to check on my blog posts.

Most of them have the titles I set for them, some are just "blog" with the title below - which won't help with how they rank on Google. Probably I've been a mite careless in "telling" WordPress how to format the titles (sigh).

Thanks again - hope to boast soon about getting another couple of search terms on P1!!!

Linda

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