After the success of our last poll on The Top 20 Startup Mistakes that entrepreneurs make, we’re ready to get our new poll started!

This time I want to talk about raising money. It’s been said that there is no such thing as a startup with too much money. You need capital to invest in sales, marketing, staff, offices, research, etc.

Every business needs some startup capital so my question to you is what’s the best way to raise money?

I’ve created a new post in our forums where you can vote. Please take the time to share your thoughts and experiences as the results will help other entrepreneurs become successful in building their businesses.

To cast your vote and get involved in the discussion, click here.

Two weeks ago I offered free SEO advice to Supper Thyme USA. I’m going to continue my SEO Advice series today by helping out another YoungEntrepreneur.com blog reader, Mark from TheLocoMono.

TheLocoMono – http://thelocomonowebsite.com

I would like to take you up on your offer for SEO advice. I have been reading your blog for some time now so I am curious to hear what you have to say. My website, TheLocoMono Website started out as a popotouri of topics and last month I simplified these topics into sub-domains so along with a remodeled design using a paid WP theme, it is starting to look a lot better, traffic is somewhat the same as it was before but more spread out across the sub-domains and main site.

I am curious to see what I can do to increase traffic to my sub-domain and/or somehow tie them into my main website. A challenge but neverless shoot for Pluto as I like to say.

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Muchas Gracias,

Mark

My Recommendations

1) Pick Better Keywords
I like your category idea but you should pick keywords that you have a change of ranking for. As an example, look at your Just Business section. Are people really searching for “Just Business”? Use keywords that are related to the topics you are writing about but will also drive targeted traffic for you because you can get on page 1 in Google for them.

2) Use Your Pictures For SEO

Your images can not only help you rank for select keywords, they can also drive some serious traffic to your site through the Google image search. Your logo is called TLMlogo.gif and your alt tag is “Logo”. Change your pictures around so that the file name and, at the very least, alt tags are helping you with your SEO efforts.

3) Increase Your Keyword Density

If you don’t use your keywords on your page in multiple locations it will be hard to get Google to pay attention. Look at your Just Personal Finance Page. You have the key phrase Personal Finance in your title tag, in your url, and your H1 tag. Then you don’t use Personal Finance anywhere else on the page. You need to make sure that your posts mention the keywords you are trying to rank for. If your posts aren’t related to personal finance then consider changing the topic name to something that you are likely to write about in your posts (and a key phrase that is not as competitive as Personal Finance).

Good luck Mark!

Readers, what do you think about TheLocoMono’s website?

To learn more about how to get SEO tips for your website please read my post: Need SEO Advice? Submit Your Site!