New to SEO.. What would you do with my site?

For starters, you need on-page SEO, doesn't even look like your targeting the keywords you mentioned in OP.

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Considering your web site statments about the typical salary range of your niche 110-300k you should take out few bucks out of your pockets and hire someone to do the job.

As Yukon mentioned your on-site SEO is almost non-existant and even if you fix it you will probably need additional work to be done on it to make it rank.

Bigmacca,

As mentioned by the other members, I would start with the posts on your pages. They are not configured very well for search. Ideally you want to target one keyword phrase and its variants per page. These should be in the architecture of the page, in headers, and in copy under the headers. Keyword density should be around 2-3% and make the content useful (i.e. after it is written, ask yourself if someone actually looking for information on mining and mining jobs would find your site useful, if not, re-write the content until it is.)

Here is a good resource for on-page optimization,

On-Page Ranking Factors - SEO Best Practices - Moz

If you haven’t already, submit your site to Google and Bing WMT. It doesn’t appear that there are any links to your site. You should focus on getting some links as well. I would start with the on-page stuff and see where that gets you.

Hope that helps,

Shawn

Bigmacca what I mean here that you don't look trustable at all with a site like this while talking about such figures. Same as those ''make 6 figures online'' blogs ,self made with awful free themes or even worse hosted on free web 2.0 blogs. Work on branding and credibility first. I wouldn't put my trash mail on your site even for a free e-book.

You seems to be a newbie but your keywords you are looking for are too far to get ranked. Everyone here would recommend to for little easier and less competitive keywords..

You should try to rank for individual pages within your website. When they all rank well, it will bring you in some steady and quality traffic. Just make sure to keep up your link building/sharing efforts.

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For high competitive keywords, you should have a plan and there should be "no" to any black-hat..

You should focus on content development mainly.

bigmacca, I'm going to go against the grain here and give you my opinion on the matter. I would suggest focusing on PPC (paid traffic) before you focus on SEO. That's the best advice I can give you.

So many people (myself included) waste a ton of time in IM by looking for free ways, weird ways, secrets ways etc to get traffic when they would be way better off just buying it in the first place.

Now, I know what you are thinking, I can't spend money when I'm not making it. So you need to fix that issue. How can you modify your web page or your efforts to get a return on your investment? After all, what is the point of ranking high if your page isn't making money?

If you go about it with the approach that I'm suggesting and you turn your page into a cash machine then you can start focusing on SEO. Why? Because now you will know what keywords are going after and ranking. No sense in ranking a keyword that doesn't make money right? I believe this is the secret to overall success.

Build a PPC campaign that works and then leverage your knowledge into SEO.