It’s time for another SEO Advice post! Last week, I offered free SEO advice to Adventure Mopeds. I’m going to continue my SEO Advice series today by helping out another YoungEntrepreneur.com blog reader, Aaron Tucker from Poker Strategy, Theory, and Tips.

Aaron Tucker – http://jacktenoffsuit.com/

Hi,

I saw your blog post on youngentrepreneur.com. My site is www.jacktenoffsuit.com. I would love if you could help me out!

Thanks,

Aaron Tucker
My Recommendations

1) What’s With The Forward?

Your website is jacktenoffsuit.com but when you enter the url it automatically forwards you to jacktenoffsuit.com/homepage/. If you’re doing it through a 301 redirect then any Page Rank on your main page will automatically forward to the homepage folder but why do it? The closer your keywords are to the left of the url the more it will help your SEO efforts so unless there is a good reason for having the homepage folder, I would eliminate it. If you absolutely have to have it in, at least change it to a keyword that will help you drive traffic like /poker-tips/ instead of /homepage/.

2) Use Your Keywords

Blogs are great for SEO because most blogging platforms automatically optimize many aspects of your site. This takes some of the work away from you but you still have to pick good keywords if you want to drive traffic! The most important place where your keywords should be is in the title of your post. Your recent post Raise ‘em ‘Til They Crack might be descriptive of the content you have in the post but it’s not going to help you drive traffic. How many people are searching in Google for “Raise ‘em ‘Til They Crack”? For your future posts I would suggest trying to target keywords that you see people actually typing into Google so the hard work you put into creating content will pay off with visitors!

3) Put The Keywords In The URL

One of the SEO drawbacks from many blogging platforms is that they don’t put your keywords in the url of the post. For example, your post on Annette Obrestad MTT Strategy Guide is listed as http://jacktenoffsuit.com/homepage/?p=364 instead of http://jacktenoffsuit.com/homepage/Annette-Obrestad-MTT-Strategy-Guide. Having the keywords in the URL will give you a nice SEO boost and there is usually an option in your blogging platform to turn it in. It’s just usually set off by default.

Good luck Aaron!

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