A Month Of The Great Website Guide
Day 31 of The 100 Days To Building A Great Website Guide
This is day 31 of the 100 Days to Building A Great Website. This has been going on for a month, so I thought I would look back at some of the changes I have implemented and give some results.
Writing a series
On Day 11 I wrote about Writing a Great Series of Posts. This 100 part series of posts has been very beneficial to my site. These articles are the single most viewed posts on my site, and writing the series is one of the things which motivates me to generate content more or less every day. Since I started this series, my daily views are up 50% and my RSS subscribers are up 100%
Targeting Keywords
On Day 25 I wrote about finding sought after keywords. The article made me apply the advice to myself and change the title of the series I am writing. It was originally titled “100 Days To Webpage Excellence” but is newly titled “100 Days To Building A Great Website” Why? Because more people search for “Building A Website” or “Great Website” than they do for “Webpage Excellence” If I consider this a 3 month exercise in SEO, I decided I needed to be smart about the keywords I was targeting.
Additionally I have had a month to find out how people are Googling me. The most hits I have gotten are from
- good wordpress plugins
- “who is googling you”
- savvy affiliate
- AdSense per visitor
- “best time to post”
This gives me an idea of which keywords to target. I might as well target some keywords which I am already getting hits for, and aim to climb to the top of those rankings. Since I already rank for “Savvy Affiliate” and “Who is googling you” doesn’t seem very beneficial, it seems like it might be smart to tackle keywords such as
- Good, Great, Best, Top etc. Wordpress plugins
- AdSense profit per visitor or How much AdSense Profit
- Best Time To Post or When To Post
So expect in the future to see some posts along those lines, and to see my SEO warping towards those ends.
You can do the same thing for your blog. The easiest keywords to rank for are the keywords you are already getting hits from. Find some keywords you show up on the 2nd, 3rd, or even higher page for and target those. Once you move up into page one, or even place #1 you can widen your scope.
Good Post Titles
On Day 22 I wrote about The Importance of Great Post Titles. Although I’m still experimenting with what works best, I have found that since I have written my post titles with an eye towards attracting Google visitors, my search results have gone up. It is just common sense that to attract people, you have to write something enticing. It may be common sense, but I sometimes have trouble doing it, and I know other bloggers do as well.
So have you implemented any particular new strategies that you have benefited from recently? Any good tips that you have read, here or anywhere else, that has helped your site?
on June 20th, 2007 at 8:09 am
My unexpected top search term by far for the past month has been ‘The 4-Hour Work Week book review by Timothy Ferriss’. I reviewed it pretty quickly and I guess a lot of people are interested. My second is Rich Minx, which is nice, followed by ‘NY rich people giving away free money’ (20 searches!) I’ve done one post about that but I’m not willing to cater to them any further.
on June 21st, 2007 at 12:03 am
Hey! I want free money. Where can I find these NY rich people? Is there some state or city the all reside in?
on June 19th, 2011 at 9:10 am
Connecting is king, so write on article every day with good keywords and a text of 200-300 words and your blog is going to get a good PR.
on August 27th, 2011 at 11:48 am
This gives me an idea of which keywords to target. I might as well target some keywords which I am already getting hits for, and aim to climb to the top of those rankings.
on September 23rd, 2011 at 11:55 pm
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on October 5th, 2011 at 12:04 am
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