It’s time for another SEO Advice post! Last week, I offered free SEO advice to Josh Can Help. I’m going to continue my SEO Advice series today by helping out another YoungEntrepreneur.com blog reader Armond, from Pray For My Mom.

Armond – http://www.prayformymom.com

Hi Evan,

I’m one of your blog readers, and need some SEO advices for the website I’ve setup.

It’s a website dedicated to my mother who is suffering from cancer. All we need are prayers, support and positive comments. Using that website people can post their supportive/positive comments, prayers and even light virtual candles there. I want to show my mother there are many people around the globe who care for us although they may not know who and where we are. In this way, I want to give my mother hope and enough power to resist and succeed.

Anyways, here is the website:
http://www.prayformymom.com

I need to spread the word more and more, and to get a descent page rank in Google to get more traffic. I will appreciate any advice in this regard.

Thank you so much for your time & effort.

Armond

My Recommendations

This is a great initiative that you have created and I would love to help you get more search engine traffic to the site!

1) Use Cancer Related Keywords In Your Title Tag

Your title simply reads “Pray For My Mom” which is descriptive of what you have on the site but it won’t help you drive traffic. Something like “cancer support blog” or “cancer support resource” would help you get more people visiting the site who are interested in the same kind of support (and will hopefully also read your story and pray for your mom!)

2) Create Longer Posts

Your news post updates, such as 3rd session of Radiotherapy, are very personal and tell your story but if you want to get them ranked you should write more content. Try to aim for at least 300 words per post so you can get Google to pick up the content and you can get more people reading the updates you’re creating.

3) Use Better Post URLs

Look at the options in your blog management system and see if you can edit the URLs of each post. For example, your post Radiotherapy started today!’s URL is http://www.prayformymom.com/news/42 – since you’re not trying to rank for the keywords “news” or “42″, try to get it so that the 42 becomes: Radiotherapy-started-today.html so you can increase your chances of ranking in Google for those keywords.

Good luck Armond!

Readers, what do you think about Pray For My Mom?

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