1) A discussion of your general approach and strategy to search engine optimiation (SEO). What were some of the activities you did for each blog post to pursue SEO?
My idea behind the SEO was that we were "advertising" our page by posting links to our posts on other blogs. I didn't go out of my away to use any other techniques to improve my Google ranking.
2) What were your keywords. How did you select those keywords? Did you change or refine your keywords through the semester?
I didn't know that we were supposed to specify keywords and attempt to use them more, but I am sure things such as my service name or what the specific topic was about helped in getting that keyword count up.
3) How did you use social media to enhance your SEO efforts? What your your surprises or general impression of using social media to improve your blog's profile? Was social media generally receptive of your blog, or did it get ignored?
Mostly YouTube. If I knew more people in this class I might have used things such as Facebook to get some exposure for my blog, but it didn't really cross my mind as I didn't think anyone would want to read my posts if they didn't have to. YouTube, in way, still helps as it can still attain exposure from a larger audience than say my Facebook friends list.
4) What was your most "viral" post? In other words, which post obtained the most traffic? Why do you think?
My third elevator pitch seemed to generate the most traffic by a few views. I don't think there was any particular reason other than maybe I perfected my method. I don't think those views were at all from Google and were all from Canvas instead. However, it is interesting to note that that particular post was my most popular and the views for other posts varied greatly.
5) Finally, did you make it to the first page of Google results for your keywords? If not, what page of results did you make it to?
No I did not make it to the first page. I think my lack of SEO is partially to blame and the fact that Google is incredibly saturated with similar blogs that, without the right promotion, I wouldn't stand a chance to compete with.
My third elevator pitch was also the post that received the most traffic! I think me and you are on the same page as far as what the expectations were for this blog. I was unaware that we were supposed to be making our blog more able to be seen. Therefore, like you, I did not include any addition keywords or anything like that. If you want, you can check out my post here: http://kenny-o.blogspot.com/2016/04/google-gold.html
ReplyDeleteHello Cody,
ReplyDeleteThat's interesting that your elevator pitch got the most traffic because the top 10 world problems seems to be the most common one like mine.