In the past month this blog has received approximately 4% of its total visits from search engines. I am not complaining, this is my first blogging attempt….
Nevertheless, I am not satisfied, at all.
Ideally, I want search engines to bring in the most traffic. The higher it’s ranked in search engine searches and as it moves up in the searches, the easier it will be for potential visitors, readers to get to this blog. Although I haven’t been focused on moving up in the search results, I must be doing something right…
When I started, (two months ago) this blog did not appear in search engine searches. I added my URL to Google’s list, Goggle crawled my pages and I started turning up in searches. Initially, I tried searching for keywords in my posts and titles, but this blog was nowhere to be found. The only way to find it by searching was to search for my URL: www.ideasandmoney.info.
About a month into my blogging experience, I noticed that out of nowhere this blog started turning up in searches. Searched for certain keywords that I believe are relevant, keywords that I think people who might find my posts interesting might search for. Two weeks ago I searched for Make Money Blogging in Google. This blog was at page 21. This means that in order for someone to get to this blog, they had to go through 210 websites/blogs that are about making money blogging. That is not that bad considering that there are far more websites and blogs out there about making money blogging. In Entrecard alone there are over 300.
A week later, last week I searched for “make money blogging” again. This time my blog was just barely on page 15. It was the last entry in that page. In the last few days it has moved up a few spots and is the third one on page 15. You can check for yourself:
A day later I was at page 14.
Today it is at page 13. Click here
Ideally I would like to be on page one.
In the following post I will outline what I have done and what I will continue to do to move up and closer to the top. Over the past few months I have been taking a few baby steps here, and a few there. The next post will have sound advice, a list of things I have done and things I will continue to do to get on page 1 of Google’s results for Make Money Blogging.
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I have been getting most of my traffic from search engines, I can't complain, but I have more a niche searched item. Yours certainly is moving up, thats a great thing..it is so time consuming!
Thanks for posting a comment. My blog is moving up but as you said it does take time. I am still wondering how long it will take to get "up there" at least in the first 5 pages.
yeah it take time to get ranked in google get ur site in top 10 gud luck
You're starting to move up well for a keyword that seems pretty competitive.
I have been working on the SEO for a while now, and I one thing that I have discovered for increasing the overall traffic is blog commenting. I just had a real breakthrough in search traffic about two weeks ago, going from an average of 40 search visitors per day up to around 100, and it happened very quickly within the space of about two days.
What seemed to make most of the difference was that I spent a few hours commenting on about 20-30 other blogs, but instead of simply putting my home page in the URL field, I pointed the links at specific keyword-optimized articles that I had recently written.
After a few days, I was not only getting good traffic to the targeted pages, but the search engines started bumping up some of my other pages and sending traffic to them as well. Interestingly, the targeted pages aren't even related to my site's main title, and in 90% of the cases, I didn't even try to use keywords in the other blogs' URL fields - most of the time, I just used my real name or the name of my site, Karlonia.com.
You might want to try this "deep linking" strategy if you're not doing it already - my own recent case study seems to prove that it really works!
Karlonia: Thanks for excellent comment. I do comment as well but I focus my efforts mostly on submitting articles. You can find my related post about increasing traffic by article submission. I am going to try your suggestion as well! Thanks again and keep in touch.
Hey, you can submit an xml sitemap to Google via Webmaster Tools. Your pages should get crawled and indexed more quickly that way, among other things.
Also, targeting the search phrase "make money blogging" is pretty hard because it's competitive. Good Luck!
congrats on your progress. make money blogging is a tough keyword to compete with the rest of the world but i wish you all the best. good luck. anyway, thanks for visiting and supporting my blog. cheers.
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by the way, i have subscribed to your RSS feed. let's hope to see more interesting articles from your blog. cheers,
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Thanks for your support!
You are obviously doing what it takes to move up the search engine ranks. Not everyone has this kind of success, especially in a subject matter that has so many entries.
My blog is now six months old and has a page rank of 4. I too have been making a concerted effort to do those things necessary to come up on the almighty page 1, lol!
Continued success, and I look forward to seeing what tactics you use.