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Saturday, April 16, 2016

All that Glitters, is not Google Gold

1.  I have no honest clue on how to do search engine optimization.  I wanted to make it a point to learn it during this semester, but I slacked on that.  However, I did do something to get some search results.  I have my posts some pretty awesome and unique names (in my opinion at least).  I knew that this would probably get me a few more views, since I'm avoiding using generic names for my posts.  Or maybe this did nothing at all and I'm just trying to make myself feel better.
I also shared my posts on my google+ account, just to get those extra ten or so views.

2.  I'm going to assume that my keywords are the words I used to name my posts.  As I said before, I gave my posts some unique names.  If I am completely misunderstanding the terminology here and you are cringing right now because of my ignorance on the subject, I sincerely apologize.  Please bare with me here.

3.  I didn't actually share my posts on social media.  I didn't really think that my business idea posts would be very popular on Snapchat or Instagram.  I was considering Facebook, but no one ever responds to any of my posts on there anymore anyways.  The only other thing I posted it on was my google+ account, if you want to count that as social media (I don't really think it is).

4.  My "Celebrating Failure, Together" post has the most views, with 20 views.  I don't know exactly what my average view count is, but most of my posts were between 15 to 19 views, so 20 won by just a bit.  As far as why it has the most views, I have no idea.  Perhaps I posted it at blogger.com prime time, which got me that extra view.

5.  I am happy to say that YES I did make it to the first page of Google for some of my posts!  One of them being the "Celebrating Failure, Together" post, which now that I think about it, is probably what got me those extra views.  I'm super psyched about that honestly.

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  1. UnknownApril 19, 2016 at 10:01 AM

    I ran into the same problems with social media as you. I only really use Snapchat and Instagram and obviously posting on there won't attract many views. That is very exciting that you were on the first page of google search and you definitely do have some interesting titles on your posts. Great work! Here's the link to mine: http://tonyclements90.blogspot.com/2016/04/google-gold.html

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  2. Taylor BrenenstuhlApril 20, 2016 at 1:36 AM

    I really enjoyed your blog post, especially the title! I agree with you that having a unique name is very beneficial for a good search engine optimization. You have had the ongoing theme of unique titles to your blog post and I believe that this will help you. I also did not share my posts on social media, only YouTube. Check out my Google Gold blog post at http://ent3003tb.blogspot.com/2016/04/google-gold.html

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