Keywords, Desctiption, Title, Page Rank

[technica]

Hello All,

Can anybody tell me the keywords, descriptions, and title used on home page and inside pages are proper or not.

Actually on some pages the keywords are repeated ( I mean many pages have same keywords), So will it affect the SEO ?

How can I increase the Page Rank for my Site ?

Any advanced users in this forum can help me.
Thanks in Advance.

[BigAlReturns]

Do you mean your meta keywords and descriptions? If so, then don't worry too much about them. Meta keywords have no effect on SEO, whether they are done "right" or "wrong". There's a simple proof of this - create a new page with some filler text, and add into the meta keywords an invented word - "gfewrjbeigjreigjeri" or something like that! Make sure Google has zero results for this word. Now wait until it get's indexed, and search Google for this made up word - it won't appear! This means no association has been made between your page and it's meta keywords.
Meta descriptions can be important, but this is because they can appear in search results, and influence click through rates, not because they influence rankings. Still, it has been suggested by some that having several pages with the same description is not a good idea - try to keep them unique. For a forum this might mean dynamical;y generating them, for example, filling them with the first 200 characters in the thread.
PageRank is simply a measure of the number of, and importance of, the links to your site. So to increase PR is simple, get more links, and get higher PR links. Remember though - no incoming link is a bad link! As a word of caution, PR is only very very slightly related to how well a page ranks for a specific query - don't expect to see huge improvements in referrals from Google just because you've gone from PR3 to PR4!

[ryanhellyer]

Originally Posted by technica

Hello All,

I have a site at http://www.TechnicalTalk.net/

Can anybody tell me the keywords, descriptions, and title used on home page and inside pages are proper or not.

Actually on some pages the keywords are repeated ( I mean many pages have same keywords), So will it affect the SEO ?

How can I increase the Page Rank for my Site ?

Any advanced users in this forum can help me.
Thanks in Advance.

Hi Technica,
The first thing I suggest looking at for SMF forums is some sort of SEO mod. Out of the box SMF forums have a chronic reputation for not being indexed by Google, so a good SEO mod would help a lot.

I've tested this mod the pretty URL's Mod which worked quite well. It's still a Beta release, but seems to be quite stable and the only issue is that you need to manually upgrade rather than using the SMF package manager.

Mod download here ... http://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php?mod=636
Demo here ... http://dev.eldacar.com/smf/

There are some other SMF SEO mods, but they don't seem to be very well supported by their authors.

Another major thing I would recommend, is to switch to a better theme. The default SMF theme is very poor SEO wise.

[technica]

Thanks a lot for the suggestions

[shakir]

repeating keyword is not a problem . actually google checking the density of the keyword so its good, should not seems to be spam....if will get -ve effect