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bufhal
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Posted: Wed Oct 20, 2004 8:50 pm
Post subject: Can I please get some feedback?
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Hi all
I was wondering if you could take look at my SBI site and offer any comments. I have been working on it for two weeks and it is approx. 1/2 way done.
The main thing I want to ask is:
My site is for health insurance quotes, senior health care facility(nursing home) information and long term care insurance info. All pages have a good demand and are profitable, however, I have 15 pages and need another 10?? I was going to add a section of 5-7 pages on "senior health maintenance/advice". (Health info and affiliates with excercise equiptment, vitamin supps, etc.)
Would that water down my overall concept to much? Or should I add pages related to the overall concept?
I appreciate any advice or suggestions and any critique of the site in general.. 
Thank youGary
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Declan OReilly
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Posted: Wed Oct 20, 2004 11:49 pm
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Hi Gary,
| bufhal wrote: | I have 15 pages and need another 10?? I was going to add a section of 5-7 pages on "senior health maintenance/advice". (Health info and affiliates with excercise equiptment, vitamin supps, etc.)
Would that water down my overall concept to much? Or should I add pages related to the overall concept? |
Good website - but you are right it does need more content. Ken Evoy would advise to pick a niche and aim to write 70 pages of content for your chosen keywords. But there is only so much you can write on health insurance.
I don't think that it is straying off the theme of 'Family Health insurance Online Quotes" too much and I see no reason why you couldn't tie it in with your website afterall you are aiming for the 'babyboomer' market.
Exercise and vitamins are related in that they are preventing aged care problems so I guess they are an insurance of sorts! Remember to sell the 'lifestyle' benefits of what you are promoting throughout your website.
I would suggest writing reviews, case studies and also having plenty of testimonies as well. Keep up the good work because it looks as though the site is shaping up to be a useful resource.
Declan
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bufhal
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Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2004 1:12 am
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Declan;
Thanks for the reply. I will add a bunch of pages on health. I don't know if I can get to 70, but I know I can get to 30 or so..
Thanks for the imput.
Gary |
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Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2004 1:53 am
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Hi Gary,
You are welcome!
| bufhal wrote: | | I don't know if I can get to 70, but I know I can get to 30 or so.. |
You'd be surprised! If you publish a regular newsletter you can archive it onto your website so subscribers can read back issues. By doing so you will be constantly adding more keyword rich pages to be indexed and boosting your rankings.
Remember to drop back in ocassionally to let us know how you are going...
All the best,
Declan
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Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2004 1:53 am
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Hi Gary,
You have nice website, just like most SBI sites.
If I were you, I will revised the headline into something more compelling
that will make your visitor curious to read.
I noticed that the LTC Insurance navigation button isn't showing
after clicking it. Check and fix it.
Lastly, one image on every page I think will help, just like what
you have on your Long Term care page.
regards,
Anthony Fesalbon
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bufhal
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Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2004 2:00 am
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thanks Anthony. I will take your advise. Any suggestions for the headline?.. 
Gary |
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Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2004 12:05 pm
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Setting up new related sections is a good idea.
One thing to watch out for is that adding new links to pages can interfere with the targeting of your AdSense ads.
One way to solve this problem is to create several mini-sitemaps, one for each new section. On each page of your site you can link to these mini-sitemaps, which are just like ordinary sitemaps, except that each one covers just one section of your site.
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bufhal
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Posted: Thu Oct 21, 2004 12:20 pm
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| Quote: | | ...that sounds like a solution to my four-part website: Long Term Care, Health quotes, senior care facility info and senior health. Can you give me an idea on how this can be done with SBI? Or can you point me to a site that uses mini site maps? |
You need to know just a little bit of HTML for this. At the bottom of every page (or top, or top left, or top right, or under your navigation links, or wherever you like on the page) you would place four links: Long Term Care, Health Quotes, Senior Care Facility Info and Senior Health.
Each of those links would lead to a mini-sitemap. A sitemap is just a list of links, usually with brief descriptions, listing all the pages on your site. Once a site has more than 50 or so pages, people often break the sitemap up into appropriate sections. I call those sections mini-sitemaps.
Your mini-sitemap can be a simple list of links, but you might want to add keyword-rich descriptions to increase the chance that your pages will be found in search engines.
You can even start your mini-sitemap with a brief article and include links in the article.
Here's one way of doing it: See http://www.mex-recipes.com and click on "Beef taco recipes". That takes you to a page which starts with an article and includes links to several other pages. You could have four pages created like that, one for each section of your site.
Click on the "Index for recipes". If your site grows really large, each of your mini-sitemaps might look more like that page.
If you have a look on SiteSell.com at some of the SBI sites - there are LOTS of them look at - you'll see that there are many different ways of doing this stuff. |
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The site is very clean. SBI does a good job with that. One issue I see though is that you have no anchor text links to the main menu pages listed in the menu in the upper left hand corner of the home page. Search engine spiders will still index these pages but you are not gaining and of the anhor text benefits. Anchor text links help search engines determine how your page ranks for a given keyword or phrase.
I would add text links at the bottom of each of your pages for:
health insurance quotes
long term health care
ltc insurance
etc..
The more targetted articles on your site, the better. The area you talk about branching out to is easily within the realm of your targetted audience.
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bufhal
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Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2004 12:33 pm
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| Quote: | | you have no anchor text links to the main menu pages listed in the menu in the upper left hand corner of the home page |
Can you please clarify what you mean? I have a menu on each page, but I am not clear on what you mean-anchor text links..
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bufhal
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Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2004 1:01 pm
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You mean more or less repeat what is in the menu on the bottom of each page?
It is done on the first page automatically by SBI--I see your point(if that is what you mean) in having the menu items at the bottom of all other pages... |
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Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2004 11:10 pm
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Anchor text links are links that contain the keyphrase for the page the link is going to. She is recommending you place some on your other pages ... like a linked text footer.
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bufhal
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Posted: Fri Oct 22, 2004 11:37 pm
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| Does SBI have the capability to do this or should I just use the "text link" for the four o five links at the bottom of each page? I would like to have a unique look (smaller) like many websites. Perhaps I should just use regular HTML, make the font smaller and vertical. |
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Posted: Sat Oct 23, 2004 12:20 pm
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I make mine small and horizontal on my pages at the end, I have a vertical menu in the upper left.
___ horizontal - left to right
l vertical - top to bottom
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