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    Hey all,

    Was just wondering if a few people could do a Google search for campsites in wales for me and let me know what page it comes up on.

    Only reason I am asking for this is that I have just come back form holiday and according to the results on my computer I have jumped from page 54 to 4 and then now 3. I originally thought it was because I was signed into one of my Google accounts and it was returning results based on that, however I have also tried it in safari and opera which I don’t sign into Google accounts on and getting the same results but on my iPhone I’m still on page 54 >:(

    the url is www.campsites-in-wales.co.uk

    Ohh and just to note this isn’t spam, its a genuine request, I’ve been fighting for months to get above these forums for the search term campsites in wales lol

    Thanks
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      Searching from NZ, using google.co.nz, and searching for "campsites in Wales" quotes included, you come in on page 4 for me - screenshot attached smiley
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        Here in the USA your site is the second to last URL on page two or 19th overall...
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          In Germany I didn’t recognize your site in site 1-7 for "campsites in wales".
          But you only have a PageRank of 1 which is quite bad for a site like this.
          And you only have abut 5 backlinks according to google: http://www.google.com/search?q=link:www.campsites-in-wales.co.uk
          You really should do some SEO work for this site.
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            From NYC area, page 9 4th result, screenshot attached. That was in Safari, checked Chrome for the heck of it - same result.

            Check out http://www.submitedge.com/, their prices are pretty cheap for backlinks. The only thing is, the quality of those may not be so good, and you may be better off doing the work yourself. Also, I have improved rankings of a site (I’m pretty sure) by linking out to other pages that had PR4+, so find some relevant Wikis with good PR and link to them, it could help out your SEO.

            Some other tips: get rid of the inline styling, ALWAYS link pages using absolute links (just create all your MODx links with [(site_url)] before the ID [~1~]). Make sure you have h1 tags, and try to get the h1 as close to the body tag as possible. Also make sure you use headers, and use keywords in headers. You can also look into robots.txt, sitemaps, and remember, above all, content is king. Get articles up about choosing a campsite, what to do on a campsite, how to have fun at a campsite, packing for a campsite, etc. And work hard to turn those 4 into 400. You’ll be on your way. You don’t necessarily need those to be linked directly from your home page - but make sure the spiders can find them, i.e. have a article listing page linked from your home page.

            And a stylistic tip: in your menubar at the bottom, add in some a:hover style rules, even if it just text-decoration:underline; - it only takes a line of code but helps usability and viewability immensely!

            EDIT: Sorry, forgot the screenshot. Enclosed now.

            Hope that helps!
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              Wow, hadn’t realised ’campsites’ was such a competitive search!

              On Google.co.uk (for me) you are the last result on page 3. I can’t find any references to the modx forums anywhere near that. When searching yourself, use a different browser from the one you normally use and ensure you are logged out of any Google accounts (to disable personalised search).

              I’d be careful about paying for cheap (or any) backlinks - if they are low quality you won’t get much link value and Google has openly frowned on this practise. If they find 1,000 crap links to your site pop up in a couple of days it’s a sure sign that you’ve done something dodgy. You might end up another 30 positions back shocked Instead, try to get listed in DMOZ and some good quality local directories (such as hotfrog.co.uk, Yelp, etc)

              It would be very worthwhile setting up a free, optimised Google Places page for your site, seeing as the first 7 results are local search results.

              Also - SEOmoz are offering a free one month trial of their SEO applications. You can track search engine rankings for Google, Bing and Yahoo! for up to 250 keywords. They will also crawl your site and point out where you could make improvements based on the keywords you want to rank for. I’ve gone on to purchase a Pro membership which has definitely been money well spent.
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                From google.co.za (South Africa)

                First find http://modxclub.com/campsites-in-wales-408 page 4 next to bottom

                Nothing else only checked to page 10
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                  From google.co.za (South Africa)
                  First find http://modxclub.com/campsites-in-wales-408 page 4 next to bottom
                  weird, i got it on page 8
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                    Jan,

                    You live in South Africa? I was just there a couple months ago after many years (born and raised in Cape Town)...

                    Now back to the actual thread...
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                      hey Max,

                      no, i’m just here for a bit, looking after my mom’s dogs & checking if i can work from here smiley
                      how did you like Cape Town after all those years away? Which part of CT are you from?