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Single page Search Engine Optimization?

I think dealers and website companies seem to put too much focus on optimizing only the dealer's home page and not the rest of the pages on their website.

Some dealers load up their home page and make it sort of ugly just to add keywords and content to it. What about just putting all that content on an "About Us" page that says what you do? That page will get indexed as well.

For example, search "deery brothers" on Google and you'll notice their home page is #1, but #2 is their "About Us" page which is full of great content, along with their home page.
http://www.deerybrothers.com/AboutUs-MasterPage.aspx

For a non dealer website example, search google for "dealer crm" and http://www.VinSolutions.com/crm.aspx comes up #2. Notice it doesn't link to our home page... Actually, our home page has no text at all on it! It doesn't need to... our website isn't a ONE PAGE website.

I guess my only point is, don't be stuck in the mindset that your home page is your only web page. You should optimize your home page, but your entire website should be full of optimized content. I would recommend creating as many custom pages as you can to add additional content. Also be sure to customize your page titles and meta tags on all your pages, not just your home page.

 

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Started Oct 11 2008 by:

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Drew Davies

Permalink Reply by Drew Davies Oct 18 2008
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It's like having the detailers come onto your lot and telling them, "Just clean that one over there. Don't worry so much about the rest of the inventory, we really want to keep the focus on that one right over there."
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I agree! SEO isn't something you do once, it's a mindset and a process! www.EveryCarListed.com is working on that right now. I've been watching the site go up in searches because of a coordinated effort to make it SEO savvy. Because of our work on the entire site, we are rising quickly in search rankings. I doubt www.EveryCarListed.com would be having the same success if we didn't have a good overall strategy!

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