Thread: New irish price comparison site launches

Hi Widow.ie,
have taken this on board and will look at organising in the future.

Originally Posted by freetocompare

Hi Widow.ie,
have taken this on board and will look at organising in the future.

Delighted to have added something you think is practical… let me know when its up and running.
I need a decent broadband connection!!

Nicely done, the only thing i dont like is the homepage advertising and the grey spacers on the results page table.

Hey,

Well done. Love the site. Its slick, the colour scheme is bright - reminds me of moneysupermarket.com (no bad thing).

Are you pulling pricing / feature data from partner sites using api's / feeds? Or is the data manually added to your site?

I am based just up the road from you. Didn't realise that Rochestwon was a hive of web innovation!

Hope the site goes well for you. regards, John

What are the search phrases for the home page? The meta title should include those phrases within 70 characters, and not be a sentence. The meta description is for the sales pitch, not the page title.

And meta titles's don't have <br>'s in them.

The competition is pretty intense for the search phrases on your site, but its always worth a try....

I picked a couple of url's to look at - the credit cards one does not have a meta title with 70 characters of credit card phrases, nor is there an opening paragraph including the search phrases.

The search phrases need to be at the start of the meta title. Sometimes I don't even include the business name in the title, when I run out of characters after using them up on with search phrases.

Mortgages? What about them? What is the search phrase? "find the cheapest mortgage"? Noone is looking for that!

The google keyword tool set for exact match type, and your country ireland has the following which are possibles for you to try for:

mortgages ireland 480
mortgage ireland 320
irish mortgage 260
irish mortgage rates 170
best mortgage rates 140
mortgage rate comparison 22

You should Google for the phrases, assess the competition (I use the SEO for Firefox tool), and consider where your website should be ranked based on the links you consider you will be able to get for the website.

I would recommend trying for the last two phrases, the competition is fairly light for the phrases.

Make sure that the meta description for the page is 155 characters of sales pitch that includes the search phrases - exact phrases not required

And make sure that the opening paragraph has the exact search phrases mentioned in there, in properly constructed sentences.

Apply the above for each page on your website.

You have created a nice looking functional website, but there is no SEO there. Just a little extra effort and you could have the SEO starting to function. Then you need to work on inbound links, social marketing, offline marketing... SEO should be a foundation that you build the rest of your website marketing efforts on.

Hi StuartC,
glad that you like the site and will re-look at advertising on home page over the coming months.
BR, freetocompare.ie

Hi SEO review,
thank you for the very comprehensive review and feedback on freetocompare.ie and the advice on exactly what to do .
It is very much appreciated.
We will be working on the SEO over the coming weeks(I think that we are going to be kept busy!)and all going well will make a good improvement.
Thanks for the complement on functionality of the site and would like to complement you on your own sites Auckland car rental,Car Hire New Zealand,Electronic Ciarette,Auckland Hotels

BR,freetocompare.ie

Hi learnpipe,
thanks for the compliments!
Doing a bit of both re;info on the site!
Have checked out your own sites learnpipe.ie ,learnpipe.co.uk,etc and i am sure that they will be a very good resource for HR depts.
BR,freetocompare.ie

Hi,

you may want to check Price2Spy - it's competitor price monitoring tool, made for online retailers who need to continously monitor their competitor's prices.

Hope you find it useful
Best regards
Misha