Last week I offered free SEO advice for Dorm Room Biz. I’m going to continue my SEO Advice series today by helping out another YoungEntrepreneur.com blog reader, Jonathan from Radical Notion.
Radical Notion – http://www.radicalnotion.net
Hey Evan.
I love Young Entrepreneur.com! I have literally grown up reading it and I apply it’s advice everyday.
Here is the website for the company. My business partner and myself are 25 and 26…
Jonathan
My Recommendations
1) Build better title tags.
Your title tags (the area in blue above the URL) all have Radical Notion in them and don’t have many descriptive keywords. Chances are you’re going to rank for the keywords Radical Notion anyway, so take it out of your title tags or, at the very least, move it over to the right side of the title tags. Also, put in descriptive keywords instead of using Artists, About, and FAQ’s. You’re never going to rank for any of those keywords so replace them with 100 characters of targeted keywords you can drive traffic for.
2) Have 300+ words of content.
Google likes content. If you have it, they’ll love your site and rank you well. If you don’t have it, they won’t. You want to make sure that each of your main pages have at least 300 words of targeted content. Right now the only page with any substantial content is your FAQ page. It means more work and requires layout changes on occasion but having at least 300 words of text will greatly improve your chances of ranking in Google.
3) Get some links!
Your website has a Page Rank of 0. This either means that Google doesn’t know you exist or you have been penalized / banned. My guess in this case is the former. You should tell Google about your website as your first step. Just use Google’ free Add your URL to Google tool to submit your site. Next you want to build up your back links. The more links you have to your site the more Google will respect you. Try to focus on quality links as supposed to just quantity and get your Page Rank built up.
4) Non SEO-Advice – SEO vs. Design
SEO strategies are typically at odds with design because to rank in Google you need lots of text and website owners typically want a clean design that is picture heavy and is low on text. You need to strike a balance between the two. If you don’t like the idea of adding more text to your homepage, focus on the inside pages. Write articles that highlight what you do and will drive targeted traffic to your site.
Good luck Jonathan!
Readers, what do you think about Radical Notion?
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