First Post, Please Give Feedback on Personal Web Design Site

[six5webdesign]

Hey guys, this is my first thread..

I promise this is not to promote, I am really trying to get some feedback on my site.

www.six5webdesign.com

If someone could give me feedback on the site itself, but more importantly how to increase my SEO. I wouldn't mind paying someone if you could really help me out. Otherwise, any kind works are really appreciated.

Ultimately I would like to come up when people in San Diego are looking for a WordPress website designed.

Thanks so much

 

[Phreaddee]

first of all regarding SEO.

your H1 is the most important tag.
yours is

<h1 style="background: gainsboro;">
		<a href="http://six5webdesign.com/" title="Six5WebDesign" rel="home"><img class="center" src="images/six5.png"></a>
	</h1>

???

 

[six5webdesign]

first of all regarding SEO.

your H1 is the most important tag.
yours is

<h1 style="background: gainsboro;">
		<a href="http://six5webdesign.com/" title="Six5WebDesign" rel="home"><img class="center" src="images/six5.png"></a>
	</h1>

???

Thanks.. Can you suggest something for me?

 

[six5webdesign]

Would this be ok?

<h1>
		<a href="http://six5webdesign.com/" title="San Diego Wordpress Web Design" rel="home"><img class="center" src="images/six5.png"></a>
	</h1>

Is it "ok" to have a link in the <h1> tags? And if so can I use the keywords in the title tag, and will they work for SEO?

Thanks

 

[six5webdesign]

Bump? Please.

 

[krymson]

the point of you H1 tag is not for images... its for text for search engines to read

 

[ronaldroe]

H1 tags are the most important, as Phreadee said. If you're stuck on using the image, take it out of the H1 tag, put text in it and hide the H1. There are a number of ways to hide it. I usually set the header image as the background of a div, the put the H1 tag in there. Then, I set the H1 styles as follows:

#header h1{
height:0px;
overflow:hidden;
width:0px;
}

That will allow you to use the H1 with text, but use the image in place of text. Plus, if CSS doesn't load for whatever reason, the H1 will show up at the top of the page.

 

[six5webdesign]

H1 tags are the most important, as Phreadee said. If you're stuck on using the image, take it out of the H1 tag, put text in it and hide the H1. There are a number of ways to hide it. I usually set the header image as the background of a div, the put the H1 tag in there. Then, I set the H1 styles as follows:

#header h1{
height:0px;
overflow:hidden;
width:0px;
}

That will allow you to use the H1 with text, but use the image in place of text. Plus, if CSS doesn't load for whatever reason, the H1 will show up at the top of the page.

Thanks for that.. So hiding it doesn't effect the SEO ey?

 

[six5webdesign]

Any better?

 

[gbaquer3]

I like your design and I don't have any idea about SEO but the whole thing about h1 is very important. Try to include your desired keywords inside <h1> or <h2> tags or inside alt and title image attributes. This will help a lot.

However, I think that you would get more useful help if you summited this thread in the SEO section. It makes more sense.