It’s time for another SEO Advice post! Last week, I offered free SEO advice to KielJamesPatrick.com. I’m going to continue my SEO Advice series today by helping out another YoungEntrepreneur.com blog reader Brenn Hill, from Sounds of Rock.
Brenn Hill – www.soundsofrock.com
www.soundsofrock.com
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And I thought last week’s email asking for help was short – Brenn has set a new record with his website and one word! (Tip: for those of you who want to get your website reviewed by someone, you might want to include a little more detail about it and what you want to accomplish so you can get the most useful answer possible)
1) Pick Your Keywords
It’s unclear what keywords Brenn is trying to get his website ranked for. The first keyword in his title tag after School of Rock is “Guitar lessons”. Then in the actual body of the page, guitar lessons is only mentioned once and it’s burried below the fold. You should identify the keywords that you think best represent your site, put them in your title tags and then include related content below so Google has a sense of what your blog is all about. If you don’t pick a niche to focus on, Google won’t know where to put you and won’t send you any traffic (especially when you have a 0 Page Rank)
2) Get Some Content
It appears that all of the content on the homepage consists of links out to other blogs which focus on guitars. It’s very difficult to rank in Google’s index if you don’t have any unique content of your own. In Google’s eyes you just look like a link farm point out to various webpages but not contributing anything valuable. It may be a great destination point for people interested in guitars but it’s not a strategy that will win you rankings in the search engines. Try putting some of your own descriptive content up along with the links out so you’re not taking away from the experience for your readers.
3) SpyFu Recommendations
Unfortunately SpyFu doesn’t recognize SoundsofRock.com and can’t provide us with useful data but I did do an analysis of the keywords guitar lessons versus guitar news:
Guitar lessons costs between $0.39 and $0.95 per click and gets between 11,900 and 15,000 clicks per day
Guitar news costs has no results.
If your goal is to rank at the top of the search engines then it will be much easier for “Guitar news” because it is searched so infrequently and you can get there even with your low Page Rank (with a little work). If you’re hoping to drive serious traffic and make money from your AdSense ads (the apparent business model on the site), then you’re in for a battle to rank for “Guitar lessons” and will need to update your content and get more high quality links to your site.
Good luck Brenn!
Readers, what do you think about Sounds of Rock?
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