Wednesday 3 December, the article search results were as follows:

#9 in google.co.za (local) for ‘seo cape town’ – http://www.webgrowth.biz (remained in the same position)

#13 in google.co.za (local) for ‘seo cape town’ – http://www.webgrowth.biz/2008/11/30/seo-analysis-blogs/ (new to index)

#11 in google.co.za (world wide) for ‘seo cape town’ – http://www.webgrowth.biz (remained in the same position)

#12 in google.co.za (world wide) for ‘seo cape town’ – http://www.webgrowth.biz/2008/11/30/seo-analysis-blogs/ (new to index)

In my previous article I mention that my blog post (page rank 0) focusing on keyphrase ‘social media marketing’ went to #1 in google.co.za (local) immediately after it was indexed and my homepage (page rank 3) ranking slipped from #9 to #13 (for keyphrase ‘social media marketing’).  As we can see from the above data that the post focusing on keyphrase ‘SEO Cape Town’ never beat my homepage in rankings. It was always lagging behind.

What could the possible reasons be?

You will notice that I inserted ‘SEO’ in the beginning of the title tag and ‘Cape Town’ at the end with ‘search engine optimisation analysis’ separating the two. The article that went to #1 in google.co.za had ‘social media marketing’ in the beginning of the title tag (not separated by any words) with ‘Ameriquest’ at the end of the title tag. The fact that the focused keyphrase was at the beginning tells the search engines that these are the most important keywords… ahhh… so maybe it was a mistake on my part?? Next time I should not separate my targeted keywords.

For this article I have inserted ‘SEO Cape Town’ in the beginning of the title tag with no words separating them.   I will insert one more word at the end so it will remain the same density as the post that went #1 for ‘social media marketing’.  I worry though that this may look too spammy…  I guess we are going to have to wait and see.  Test, test and test again.

I should also insert ‘SEO Cape Town’ into the URL.

mmm…

I am a bit nervous that I am going overboard with the keywords but hey, nothing ventured nothing gained!  I am pushing the boundaries with keyword density on this article but let’s see how Google reacts to it.

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