Website search terms

Hi guys, I'm trying to get my website sorted so it can be found on Google better when people search for me. When I put in Google my company name, it just comes up with my old website and not my new one. I've been trying to optimise it for better Google searches and currently its on 59%. It's asking me for search terms (3-5 words). Can any of you advise me how to improve on it, many thanks.

Using a search engine to find yourself does not give an accurate response to what someone else sees when they search for the same thing.

Your computer tries to show you what you want to see, so it "remembers" what you've already seen.

Not very helpful when you're doing SEO on your website, as you've found out.

You need to ensure your adwords match what it is you offer, for example courier gets about 15,000 clicks a month (last time i looked) which is fine if you want an awful lot of wasted calls, whereas sameday courier gets far less, but is more relevant to what it is you do.

A minefield, and one that keeps changing

All i can suggest is you keep searching about diy seo's online, cos paying for it is expensive, and i'm not sure they're any better or know anymore than we mere mortals

[business] said:

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You need to ensure your adwords match what it is you offer...

Don't think he's talking about adwords.

Thorpe & Sons said:

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It's asking me for search terms (3-5 words).

What is 'it'? I assume you mean you're using a tool to help with SEO?

Long Services said:

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Using a search engine to find yourself does not give an accurate response to what someone else sees when they search for the same thing.

Your computer tries to show you what you want to see, so it "remembers" what you've already seen.

I'm no expert here so this is just a thought...........

Would clearing your browser's cookies help it to 'forget' and get you a fresh outlook?

Keywords then

Website Admin said:

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Thorpe & Sons said:

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It's asking me for search terms (3-5 words).

What is 'it'? I assume you mean you're using a tool to help with SEO?

Yes, but I can't make head or tail of it.

[business] said:

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Website Admin said:

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Thorpe & Sons said:

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It's asking me for search terms (3-5 words).

What is 'it'? I assume you mean you're using a tool to help with SEO?

Yes, but I can't make head or tail of it.

What is it!? What is it called the tool you are using?

He's got a vistaprint website and they have an seo optimizer

I'm using the SEO optimizer tool.

Thorpe & Sons said:

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I'm using the SEO optimizer tool.

OK, I'll have a look at what you can do.

For a start you should 301 redirect all your old pages on your old site to the corresponding ones on the new site.

Also I would not use images instead of text if possible in the title and menubar etc. Google cannot read images.

This SEO guide from Google tells you pretty much all you need to know.

Get yourself on google maps... That'll help too

Ok thanks for the help guys

I've registered on google maps and i gotta wait for about 2 weeks before it registers

Do a search for couriers in your area and note the websites that come up like hotfrog, freeindex, scoot, yell. Com, cyclex. These are just listing websites but as they appear high up when you do a search, its worth puttin yourself on them, or if you're automatically on em (like yell. Com) then expand your listing with more details. They all offer this for free.

Long Services said:

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Do a search for couriers in your area and note the websites that come up like hotfrog, freeindex, scoot, yell. Com, cyclex. These are just listing websites but as they appear high up when you do a search, its worth puttin yourself on them, or if you're automatically on em (like yell. Com) then expand your listing with more details. They all offer this for free.

If you do register with these type of site use an alias as contact, then when you get pestered with people asking for the alias you know where it came from

Thanks guys