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Carnival of Twenty Something Finances - May 5th edition
It has been a while since I hosted a carnival so I volunteered to help with the May 5th edition. There were quite a few good entries and then your usual hodgepodge of articles. Many which I did not enjoy because they were too much information. So I am separating my picks from the rest to make it easier for your reading pleasure.
Editor’s Pick
Raag Vamdatt’s Real Estate Investment
Free Stock Market Investing Tips’ Why I Sold My Apple Shares Today
Leaving The Folks’ Creating a budget
The Personal Financier’s How To Make Saving More Rewarding and Tangible : 5 Practical Tips
The Office Diet’s 17 ingredients, 6 sandwiches, 10 days of fantastic, healthy, lunches
And the rest of the entries…
Debt Prison’s Why Americans Can’t Afford Credit
The Skilled Investor’s The Financial Services Industry Is Still The Largest S&P 500 Sector - Even after the Collapse of its Stock Value.
Finance Tips 101’s The Pros and Cons of Personal Loans
Best No Load Mutual Fund’s Avoid Large Actively Managed Mutual Funds
The Writer’s Coin’s Dream Job
You Might As Well Burn $5!’s Financial Doublethink: A Rambling Rant
Debt Free’s Debt Relief - Do Settlement, Counseling or Debt Relief Programs Really Work?
Christian PF’s How to make a budget
Short-Term Trading’s 4 Tips to Properly Save for Your Retirement
FIRE Finance’s TIPS for Inflation and Deflation
Financial Zip’s 3 Steps to a Lower Interest Rate
No Debt Anymore’s 7 Common Sense Tips to Eliminate Credit Card Debt
Until Debt Do Us Part’s Up to your eyeballs in debt - so what?
Pasenda Financial Planner’s Asset Allocation, Investment Asset Tax Location, and Emergency Cash Management
CMOE’s Strategy in Commodities
The Eclectic Female’s How To Talk About Money With Your Partner
KCLau’s Insurance Planning Guide for Malaysians
401k Look Up’s 401k Plans for a Small Business Owner
Pinching Copper’s Buying car tires online
Creditor Web’s Understanding Frozen Credit
SEO Improvements by Young Entrepreneur
I was thrilled to see that Young Entrepreneur offered some SEO advice for TheLocoMono Website and its’ sub-domain today in this post. He rattled off great feedback right off the back which made me laugh because every single one of them is true. I still have a ways to learn about Search Engine Optimization which is a crucial element to any website’s success.
Pick Better Keywords
I recently discovered the value of keywords but am not quite sure how to incorporate them into the blog.
I like your category idea but you should pick keywords that you have a change of ranking for. As an example, look at your Just Business section. Are people really searching for “Just Business”? Use keywords that are related to the topics you are writing about but will also drive targeted traffic for you because you can get on page 1 in Google for them
Good point. How often are you going to type Just Business in your favorite search engine. This deserve some investigation and naming changes. Any suggestions would be welcomed. The goal for my business sub-domain is to explore the relationship between money and business so I can better understand how to apply it to my life whether as a business owner, an employee, or an investor.
Use My Pictures For SEO
Really? I never realized that.
Your images can not only help you rank for select keywords, they can also drive some serious traffic to your site through the Google image search. Your logo is called TLMlogo.gif and your alt tag is “Logo”. Change your pictures around so that the file name and, at the very least, alt tags are helping you with your SEO efforts.
I am going to work on that this weekend. Obviously, by renaming it to TheLocoMono which is literally the number one result in Google for TheLocoMono would just solidify my spot. I will have to figure out this “alt” thing. I know it is there but I have no clue. Feedback or links to your articles on this topic would be greatly appreciated.
Increase My Keyword Density
If you don’t use your keywords on your page in multiple locations it will be hard to get Google to pay attention. Look at your Just Personal Finance Page. You have the key phrase Personal Finance in your title tag, in your URL, and your H1 tag. Then you don’t use Personal Finance anywhere else on the page. You need to make sure that your posts mention the keywords you are trying to rank for. If your posts aren’t related to personal finance then consider changing the topic name to something that you are likely to write about in your posts (and a key phrase that is not as competitive as Personal Finance).
I don’t know how I could have missed something so obvious. That is going to take some serious thinking. If you hear monkeys hooting, that’s my brain hurting. Feel free to leave any comments to help improve my SEO skills. There is so much more to blogging than most of us realize and every little bit goes a long ways.