Electronic cigarette search with Google

[tribalmasters]

I just decided to do a UK google search on electronic cigarettes! I was an average user, pretending I had never heard of the e-cigarette until now, I looked at 10 pages before ending my search Nowhere did I find our favourite UK suppliers, no mention of totally wicked, not even e-cigs.co.uk or any Janty resellers!

Seems like a bunch of desperate suppliers bigging up their pathetic prices and tricking the general public into buying an inferior overpriced piece of crap!! I found a penstyle for £125 and that wasn't Ruyan!!

Ohh and Gamucci was mentioned in alot of them. What comments I found seemed to think refilling didn't exist and you HAD to buy the overpriced cartridges!

If only we could tell them GET OFF THAT WEBSITE and get a generic as your first e-cig and you don't have to pay £3 for a pack of 5 cartridge 'refills'

No wonder the e-cig sometimes gets bad press its so frustrating GRRR!!!

 

[scrubadub]

Strange, I just tried it and The Electronic Cigarette Company was first on the list. That was the only decent supplier in a prominent position though.

I have noticed quite a few suppliers' sites have some dodgy HTML behind them. If they coded the sites with more attention to semantic markup such as heading tags they might be a bit more successful. Google uses the markup as one of the factors in page ranking.

 

[Oliver]

I know! I did that once, and where were we??? We're in the top 10 in the USA. Google works in mysterious ways!

 

[Chrissie]

Same result as Scrubadub, TECC is at the top of my google search results.

 

[tribalmasters]

Your right, thank goodness TECC is first in the list, I don't know how I missed that one! I think Simon at e-cigs could do with putting some magic *stuff* in his web site to make it 2nd or first in the list

 

[Chrissie]

Simon's web site comes up top of the list if you do a google search for "e-cigs"

 

[tribalmasters]

I can only hope thats what Mr General Public is searching for hehe!!!!

 

[scrubadub]

This tool mimics what a search engine will think a site is about when it reads it.

SEOmoz | Term Extractor SEO Tool

For TECC the top 3 terms are:

1. cigarette
2. electronic
3. uk

For ecigs.co.uk the top 3 are:

1 mini
2 vaporiser
3 pack

Jason has more meaningful markup on his front page so he's doing better.

If any suppliers are reading this and are interested there's a good article here on semantic markup:

Semantic Markup and Semantic Coding Guidelines for SEO - Barry Wise NJ SEO and Marketing Consultant

It's not all there is to Google ranking, links back to your site play a major part but the markup is something suppliers can change themselves and it would make a big difference to their sites' performance. It will also make them easier to use for people with disabilities.