It’s time for another SEO Advice post! Last week, I offered free SEO advice to Technogumption. I’m going to continue my SEO Advice series today by helping out another YoungEntrepreneur.com blog reader, Michelle A Davis from All You Need Business Services.
All You Need Business Services – www.yourbusinessservices.com
Hello Evan,
I am not sure if you are still giving this advice for SEO, but I am in need of help! I just don’t have the funds to pay someone to assist me but know that if my website was up to the correct standards I could bring in money effectively through my site. Hopefully you are still giving advice!
Best Regards,
Michelle A. Davis
My Recommendations
1) Pick a different primary keyword
Virtual Assistant seems to be the primary keyword that you are targeting as you’ve listed it multiple times on your homepage and bolded it. You’ve done a great job in writing relevant content and not just keyword stuffing but virtual assistant is just too competitive a keyword for you to rank with. Using Google’s Keyword Tool you can see how competitive certain terms are. Virtual Assistant is maxed out on competitiveness so you might want to consider a less competitive key phrase such as online secretary, online administrative assistant, or virtual business assistant. They don’t get as many searches but you stand a much better chance of ranking for those keywords.
2) SEO consistency, 300 words
Each page you create should be consistent in the keyword you are trying to rank for. As an example, you use Virtual Assistant multiple times in the text on the home page but you don’t have it in your title tag or have an H1 tag with it. You should also make sure that each page has 300 words of text on it or more. It’s harder to rank in Google if you don’t have enough text on your pages.
3) SpyFu recommendations
A SpyFu analysis revealed that the top competitors for the key phrase “Virtual assistant” include the International Virtual Assistants Association, Wikipedia, Entrepreneur.com, Monster.com, and vadirectory.net. These are all big players that will be difficult to surpass, especially since your site only has a Page Rank of 3. Regardless of which keywords you end up choosing you should also get more links to your site to get that Page Rank higher and increase your chances of rankings.
Good luck Michelle!
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