It’s time for another SEO Advice post! Last week, I offered free SEO advice to Home Warranty Reviews. I’m going to continue my SEO Advice series today by helping out another YoungEntrepreneur.com blog reader Kevin Yapjoco, from the Sylvia Manor.
Sylvia Manor – www.sylviamanor.com
Hi!
Here’s a site I developed and I need your thoughts.
http://www.sylviamanor.com/
Thanks!
Kevin Yapjoco
My Recommendations
1) Use Your Keywords
Judging from your title tag, you are trying to rank for the keywords Boutique Hotel and Bacolod City. You do a good job of mentioning Bacolod City multiple times on the page (three times) but you only mention boutique hotel once. A good rule of thumb is to use the keyword every two paragraphs. Don’t keyword stuff and put in boutique hotel just for the sake of it. You should use it so that it makes sense to the readers and will help drive traffic from the search engines.
2) Add More Content
It appears that you have a very simple website design with a limited number of pages (facilities, reservations, etc). If you want to drive more traffic you should consider writing keyword-themed articles and posting them on your site. For example, an article about Bacolod City would be useful and you can mention some of the local restaurants and attractions. It’s a value add to your guests and will help drive Bacolod City related traffic to your website. Think of the different keywords that your target audience would enter into Google and create content around those keywords so you can get a greater share of the search engine traffic.
3) SpyFu Recommendations
According to SpyFu, here is how you rank for the important keywords for your site:
- #11 bacolod hotels
- #12 bacolod hotels
- #16 bacolod city map
- #17 bacolod city
- #17 bacolod city map
All of your results are on the second page which greatly reduces your visibility compared to being on page one. Get more links to your site, especially from other Bacolod related websites. Because they will be relevant links to Bacolod City, your ability to get on page one will be greatly increased.
Good luck Kevin!
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Great post! I think this is exactly what people need to read to get them started on conquering SEO
As a young entrepreneur , I have very little capital to hire a company to do SEO work for me. That’s why I use Google Alert and Twitter Track to my advantage.
I also undertake SEO Quests so that I can develop myself personally and expand my contacts.
The next time I read a blog, Hopefully it doesn’t disappoint me just as much as this particular one. After all, I know it was my choice to read, nonetheless I genuinely thought you’d have something useful to say. All I hear is a bunch of complaining about something you could possibly fix if you weren’t too busy searching for attention.