In order to increase the search engine optimization for my blog I really tried to use the tools this class provided to generate more views. For starters on each blog comment I did this semester I tried to relate to the person's blog post I was reviewing and then encourage them to read my blog by sharing the URL. I also tried to utilize, when I was able, modern phrases or words that people would google regularly. For example, for my halfway reflection I quoted lyrics to a Bon Jovi song that people might google.
The main key word that I tried to use was the company name that I came up with which was Stud-ease. In a majority of my posts I included it, in my YouTube video titles I tried to include as well as the blog titles I was able to. I stuck with this word throughout the semester and tried to use it often. "Learning Assessment Quiz" was another phrase I tried to use often since people are always trying to find out more about themselves, maybe this was something that people could google or be curious about from time to time.
When it came to sharing my blog with others I told my parents, grandparents and friends about my blog and showed them some of the content I have on my blog. I also was able to share the URL with several of them which they were able to look at on their own free time. Every single person who viewed it and told me about it gave me positive reviews. They especially liked how professional it looked and the elevator pitch videos I have embedded within it.
The post that gained the most traffic this semester was "Customer Interview No.1" with all of my elevator pitch posts running a close second. When looking at all of these post I did notice that all of the post had the phrase "Stud-ease" in the title which lends me to believe that a search engine could have helped in the traffic these posts obtained. I also think part of this traffic was due to the fact that other students might have viewed them for commenting purposes.
When I googled "Stud-ease" my blog did appear on the top of the search engine! It actually linked right to one of the elevator pitches in my blog. The other key phrase I tried to incorporate towards the end of the semester didn't yield any results when googling it.
I totally agree with you Skylar. I agree that using keywords, like the names of our businesses, will help bring us in more traffic through search engines. I tried to include my business name in all of my posts so that if someone looked up the name of my company, then my blog would be one of the first things that pops up. I also agree with you that most of the traffic on our posts is from our fellow students commenting on our posts. Since we do not have much advertising out for our blogs, there is not a large chance of someone finding them. But we are still learning. So from now on, we will try to include more social media tactics to get the word out about our concepts. Thank you for sharing! We had a lot in common for this assignment.
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ReplyDeleteSounds like you did a good job of trying to get outsiders on your blog! Definitely better than I did! I also tried to use my companies name as much as possible all around. Another thing I saw someone do, which I really liked, was look up "most googled words of 2016" and then include those a lot in their posts and labels. Congratulations on your blog showing up at the top of your search!
I attached a link to my second interview if you want to check it out: http://jrozent3003.blogspot.com/2016/04/very-short-interview-part-2.html
Oops left the wrong link, here ya go :) http://jrozent3003.blogspot.com/2016/04/google-gold.html
DeleteHello Skylar. I think it’s great that you were able to incorporate the SEO not only through your blog but through your blog comments. I didn’t even think of such a thing to do. Very creative! I think it’s superb that your blog was able to come up on Google’s search engine through your keyword “Stud-ease”! If you know how to generate traffic through this blog, then you should be able to generate traffic through any unique concept that you’ve came up with. Here is a link to my post. http://clarissaidos.blogspot.com/2016/04/google-gold.html
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