Need some advice for a site...

[incka]

http://www.debtmanagementguide.co.uk/

It is only bringing in $100 a month. A site I spent 30 minutes making brings in 5 times that monthly.

I've decided upon a easier keyword to target that should make it bring in about 10 times that within a few month, however I need more advice for the site.

What SEO should I do? What should I do to keep visitors coming back? Should I try advertising any other way?

[r2d2]

Can I ask how much traffic/page views you get on that? And where the main income comes from? Just Adsense by the look of it?

And which 30minute site gets 5x that??

Are you in DMOZ, Yahoo directory?

[Emancipator]

my questoin is where did all the content come from. That cant be done in 30minutes, written that is. Get it from an open source?

[r2d2]

I got the impression he was talking about another site with the 30 minute thing.

[incka]

I was talking about another site as r2d2 says. All the content was wrote by me. I don't think it got into any direcftories that I submitted it to.

[James]

For SEO I suggest changing your layout to be standards compliant and based on CSS rather than tables.

Also, have you tried putting a square Adsense advertisement in the content area of larger pages?

It could just be the niche it's in that's the trouble.

[Westech]

Does standards compliance or the use of CSS rather than tables really have anything to do with SEO?

[The New Guy]

Nothing at all.

[ozgression]

Nope, nothing.
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[r2d2]

Some people used to say that having less HTML code was better. Ie better content/code ratio. Obviously CSS is better for this. But I dont think it would really make a difference. The layout method doesnt really affect the relevancy of a page.

[moonshield]

When I typed in 'debt management guide' in google i got

Debt Management Guide Welcome To Debt Management Guide Welcome to Debt Management Guide. ... Learn more on your rights. More articles by Debt Management Guide ». ...

That could have something to do with it. Personally I dont click on such sites that have a description like this when I am browsing for sites.

[incka]

So I should use CSS and put in a meta description of the site. I'll do that tonight. Anything else?

[Shawn]

You could optimize it for several terms.

You don't seem to be. You seem to be only going after one or two major terms. Try targetting 4-8 terms that get 100+ searches a day minimum, see how that works out for you. Diversify the way you receive traffic -- if you can't compete against the competition on a few keywords, you'll still have some others to fall back on.

This will also be beneficial for you if for some reason you're knocked down in the SERPs for a keyword for whatever reason.