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 general approach to SEO status was quite simple. I have realized that putting in a number of keywords will actually make my blog stand out from the noise that is the Surface Net or the top 2% of the internet. Another SEO was the use of references such as Week x as it would apply only to this class or to a small select number of classes at most.
2) What were your keywords. How did you select those keywords? Did you change or refine your keywords through the semester?
My keywords were "Power2U", Political Bias, Big Idea Contest and Innovation Academy. These keywords were selected because they were quite generalized and focused on ever-smaller levels of the internet. As the semester went on, I discarded any direct references to IA, Big Idea Contest and just did Power2U since it would better allow for a SEO, then those two major terms.
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?
I used Google+ to enhance my SEO efforts through my circle and posting on my page. I formed a general impression that social media did not improve my blog's profile as 100% of traffic received was from UF. Social media otherwise ignored my blog.
4) What was your most "viral" post? In other words, which post obtained the most traffic? Why do you think?
My most Viral post would have to be my post on the New Venture No. 1 as it is well known to a lot of people in IA and they were looking forward to me fleshing out my idea. What also perpetuated it is my reputation for thinking outside of the box and furthering unorthodox ideas.
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?
I did not make it to the first page of Google results for my keywords as they were too broad and there was confusion with another device. I made it to page five of my most popular term. I failed in getting optimal SEO, but learned a lot in how to get to the first page.
2 comments:
Michael, I think you did a really good job on this post! I definitely didn't really even have a SEO approach so I think it is really impressive that you really thought that through and were very consistent with yours. I also found your key words to be very interesting and unique. I think making it to page 5 on google is actually a very good place to start since your key words were not super specific. Great job! Check out my post athttp://andiev.blogspot.com/2016/04/google-gold.html
Hey Michael, i think you did a great job wih your key words! It is hard to sometimes pick the right words because things such as "Politics" contain so much jargon in the google search its almost a guarantee it will get lost somewhere in the mess. But you picked a good set of words that will guide searchers directly to your company so great job!
Also here is my blog
http://nahelabugattas.blogspot.com/2016/04/google-gold.html
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