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[rohgan03]

Hi All,

I am looking for some feedback on what can be done to improve SEO for a project I am currently associated with :
www.proprofs.com/quiz-school/

The feature allows educators to create quizzes online.

Looking for SEO improvements for:
- Individual user quiz
- Any suggestions for home page

General
Is this site completed or under construction? Completed

If completed:
How long has the site been up? 2-3 Months in beta

SEO
Do you have incoming links? Yes

What keywords are you targeting? Each quiz is different and user created

Do you want your code reviewed for errors or improvements?

Marketing
Who is your target audience? Educators/INstructors/Teachers

Why is your site different from sites selling/offering similar info/goods/services? Why will someone want to do business you? Free, educational features. User customizable down to font size

How important is usability? Very!

What is the purpose of the site? Repository of free educational quizzes

Design
Do you want design suggestions? Sure!

For more information visit online tour at: http://www.proprofs....school/tour.php

[torka]

Briefly:

The tabbed menu bar is fixed width (which causes horizontal scrolling at anything less than 1024x768 full screen). I run 1024x768, but I almost never maximize my browser window, so the SiteMap button is not visible for me, and I see a horizontal scrollbar. However, the rest of the items on the screen do adjust to the browser window width, which means the search box is pushed over to the left, and actually appears partially on top of the photo of the people. Looks a little odd.

Based on this page as a landing page, I'm not really sure what exactly it is I'm supposed to do here. There are lots of choices, and it's not clear what the "most desired response" is. Do you mostly want me to create a new quiz? Rate or vote on existing quizzes? Take one of the quizzes posted on the page? Submit quizzes I've found elsewhere? Click on one of the 12 tabs for things like Wiki, blogs, forums, contribute, etc? Click on one of the numerous buttons/links/tags on the right?

I know all of those are things people can do, but which do you want me to do most? Mabe at least a little bit of general explanatory text might be in order. Something to give me an idea of what the purpose is of this page, how it fits in with the other things on the site, and a bit of a hint as to what you'd most like me to do now that I'm here.

--Torka

[rohgan03]

Thanks Torka,

Any tips on SEO? Esepecially for the user created quizzes?

[rohgan03]

ANy SEO suggestions for user created quizzes? it currently places quiz title in title tag. What else can be done in an automated manner?

[torka]

There's not much you can to in an automated fashion to optimize user-generated content, IMO. (I'm not a big fan of "automatically generated" SEO to start with -- I think there's a definite art to SEO, and haven't yet seen a "paint by numbers kit" that does an acceptable job for my taste.) Any time you think you've gotten a forumula written to extract something useful from what they've written and make use of it somehow, somebody will come along and enter something that doesn't fit the syntax.

The beauty of user-generated content is generally that it naturally uses words and phrases your target audience is likely to use. To my mind, the best thing you can do with stuff like that is make sure it's spiderable. Then just get out of the way and let the long tail take its course.

Naturally, if your analytics shows you some of those user-generated phrases are bringing in a reasonable amount of traffic, you can then work out a way to incorporate those into more formally optimized "you generated" pages.

--Torka

[Tracy]

hi rohgan03,

I may not know anything about SEO, just learning basically but I am really good with design (and i know this isnt a design forum). My suggestion, your right link btns, "Submit a quiz link, etc.", the rollover state is hard to read, especially with black over a red btn. IMO, maybe change the text on the over state to the orange....that will actually enhance the orange that you are using throughout the site and it'll bring it out more.

[Abhay]

the width of website is i think higher..

overall design was gud b did nt impressed..

Fonts n text placement cud b improved..
gd luck

[rohgan03]

Adjust font etc. How does www.proprofs.com/quiz-school/ look now?

Also what else can be done on it to optimize for the search term "quiz" ? (besides incoming links)

[ScottSalwolke]

Also what else can be done on it to optimize for the search term "quiz" ? (besides incoming links)

I'm not sure how much you would benefit from ranking for this term. Right now if you'd rank number 1 on Google, you'd be bumping "Which superhero are you?" Is this your competition? Aren't there keyword phrases that focus more on what your propects might be looking for. To connect with your market.

[Webnauts]

Having a quick look I have noticed that you are spamming. You do not use unique titles for each page.
For example check the title tags of the pages "Home", "Schools", "Contribute".

So take care about that before you get penalized, if you have not been already.

[Jill]

Not using unique titles isn't spamming. It's not good for SEO, but it's certainly not spamming!