Lude Generation

Hi guys,

I've noticed an issue which could stop LG growing. Most people when searching for an owners forum would type something like 'Prelude owners UK' into a search engine.

However LG Doesn't appear. This could stop new members from finding the site especially if PUK is mothballed completely.

How could we go about appearing higher up in Google etc?

If you search "prelude club" it's the second link though

Page 1 for prelude forum

So it is, I take it all back

Kawa wrote:Page 1 for prelude forum

hmmm, think i may have been logged into google when i searched that

/\ THIS.

And it would most definitely help to send the site link to various associated sites to link back in - thinking the usual places that have PUK, like magazines, shops, other clubs/forums, members personal sites, etc.

Roystan wrote:adding "Prelude Owners Club" to the list of keywords would help - and if it was also put in the title of the site - for example.. It currently says "The UK Honda Prelude Club" - You could change it too "The UK Honda Prelude Owners Club"

Could/Would help.

Also a sticky forum topic on the introduction thread - wrote in a way that mentions "Prelude Car Club" and Prelude Owners club throughout the welcoming paragraph would help

Aswell as rewritting the Homepage below the red 5th Gen so that it contains many keywords and search for phrases as possible will definatly help.

Re-write us something up for the front page and we'll play around with it and post it up (+rep!)

The other SEO thing you can do is write catch pages. I did it with one of my sites a couple years ago and that worked out pretty well. So you set up a page with a targeted phrase / keyword like 'Prelude UK' and essentially write a 500 word piece on it.

Take a look on the below site

http://www.seocentro.com/

They have a meta tag analyser and some SEO tools you can check various pages of the site in. You need to be careful not to repeat phrases and over do it with the keyword, I think more than a 4% of the total text body and it'll be treated as spam.

You can then use the linking structure of the site and use the SEO pages to direct traffic to the home page of registration page etc. There is also the internal page rank scenario to consider, as each link is a donation of page rank to the target page so the more pages linking to the home page the higher it's page rank provided it doesn't give everything away to other pages.

Also as the forum grows and more and more threads are made, keywords in the topics will generate results. So as the amount of specialist threads builds on here, when people look for that information it will be more likely that they'll come here, as Roystan said.

Like Pushki's thread about putting a Type S intake into a 4G, which was made only yesterday, shows up as the top result on both Google UK and .com when searching "type s intake 4g".
Another example, searching for "nighthawk prelude" on Google gives my profile thread here as the 1st and 2nd results on .co.uk, and the 8th on .com