Google Gold

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? 

I would leave a nice little comment on my post when I went to publish it. A small text box would appear before I published every post, allowing me to add any comments before sharing the post. What I would also do is find good pictures or be witty with my posts has to have people become interested in them.

2)   What were your keywords. How did you select those keywords? Did you change or refine your keywords through the semester?

Some of my key words were like “business”, “taking care”, “Karina”, and “blog”. I selected these key words because I believed them to be easy to relate to my blog post. The words easily reflected what my post was about, and made it easy for people to remember what to search for when looking for my blog. I did not really refine my words throughout the semester, I basically kept them the same because my blog was essentially the same as how I started out with.

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?

Well I used YouTube a lot for my blog. A large majority of the posts were YouTube videos open to the public, so that right there had my blog going out to people everywhere. After that I used Facebook a few times to help promote a friend of mine who started her own online business and I wanted to mention her in my blog about entrepreneurship, and so I used Facebook to share that information. Other than that I only had my Google plus account hooked up with the blog, and from there not much social media was used. From what I used however, generally people were not that receptive to my social media. I mean I would get a few views on YouTube and that was pretty much it.

4)   What was your most "viral" post? In other words, which post obtained the most traffic? Why do you think?

Surprisingly the post that got the most “viral” was my Idea Napkin No.1, with a total of five really lengthy and positive comments one of which was from Dr. Pryor. I think that this post got the most traffic compared to my other ones because the topic was interesting. My idea about having an app that you could sing or hum to to find song’s seemed really peak people’s interests. Also I was really into this section of the blog so people got excited about what I was writing about.

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?

Holy cow I actually did make it to the first page of Google results!!! I typed in the words, “Karina”, “blog”, “business” and the first post I ever did on my blog showed up third to last on the search page.