One of the activities I did to pursue SEO is share my blog with my friends and family. This way more people would be able to give me feedback if my blog was shared to others. Another thing I did is to share my blog link to the people that participated in my assignments so that they can see how they helped out.
What were your keywords. How did you select those keywords? Did you change or refine your keywords through the semester?
I didn't really put a lot of effort in my keywords, but my key words were closely related to my venture idea. I often used words like food, on-campus, healthier, cheaper and affordable. Those are basically my key points for my venture: to provide students with healthier and cheaper food options.
How did you use social media to enhance your SEO efforts? What were your surprises or your 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?
That's how I shared my blog to my friends, through social media. I didn't use social media extensively but I used facebook to share my blogs with all my friends outside of the country and with my classmates. I used Facebook to ask for some help for my assignments from my residence hall friends. Social media helped me in a small extent, but I surely can use it better. I believe a method I could use to pursue SEO would be to post my new blogs on my profile everytime I share them, so that my family and friends see the many interesting assignments I did.
What was your most "viral" post? In other words, which post obtained the most traffic? Why do you think?
The posts that obtained the most traffic are Idea Napkin No.2 and My Secret Sauce. I believe those two assignments were the two most critical in the class because this is the part you differentiate your venture with any other venture. I incorporated a lot of information in this posts, too. My Secret Sauce was one of my favorite assignments.
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?
I didn't get into the first pages because my keywords are pretty general. When I put in MultiCook on campus restaurant healthier and cheaper options, my blog appeared 4th. That's because MultiCook was included. I believe if I make Multicook famous as a restaurant then it will appear more on the google results.
Hey Artemis, first off I want to say that you have an awesome name! Second, I really can sympathize with you on making my keywords a little too general. I wish that I would have chosen my words a little wiser in order to truly better my SEO. I really enjoyed the fact that you chose to share your blog with friends and family and using Facebook on social media to optimize your search results. Overall, I did not find the success that I wanted to on this assignment, but it is good to see that you were able to achieve some success with this! Check out my blog here:http://brycesharrold2.blogspot.com/2016/04/google-gold.html
ReplyDeleteArtemis,
ReplyDeleteSEO is vital for the success of a company, and I thought it was very interesting that you shared your blog with friends and family to get feedback. I did not do this, but I definitely wish I did looking back on it. I also used keywords in my marketing strategy, but looking back on it, I should've put more effort into which words I chose to help make my posts more unique. I also didn't want to use too much social media so that this could be out in the public. Congrats on having high views on your "Idea Napkin No.2" and "My Secret Sauce" posts too!
You can check out my post here:
http://jamesdonigan.blogspot.com/2016/04/google-gold.html