My site has been up for about close to 2 months now, the first month I didn't have much traffic at all, this month I get about 500-1000+ unique visitors a day. How well do you think I am doing in your honest opinions. And if I keep it up, how big or well do you think my site will get/do by July? The Rant And Rave is the site.
So here is my story first, I quit designing websites and programing about 2 years ago because my hard drive crashed and I lost everything I have ever done in the past 8 years prior to that with websites, scripts I wrote, my graphics, everything. So 2 months ago I decided to get back into it and started learning SEO by just reading articles and following advice listed around. So here is what I pretty much do and what I use to do so. First off I use wordpress. I use the All In One Seo Plugin, Wordtwit(to automatically cross post my stories to my twitter), Sociable plugin, Related posts plugin, Subscribe & share plugins(for sharing on social networking sites), XML Site map plugin, Socialize it pro(to cross post to other social networking sites) and of course permalinks. I have found permalinks to really help a lot. In the permalinks I always list the keywords and keep it short. The keywords I use for it are based off of google trends. Now I use google trends everyday to get content for the top used keywords and write based off of it. I also use the keywords listed from 1 or more related top searched keywords. Now in the title of my posts I always try to use the keywords and try to keep it short. For example I did a story on Kal Penn when he died on that tv show. In the title I Had it say "Kal Penn Death" In the body I had the story, I made every keyword bold. Now at the bottom of every post I list keywords and bold them also. Like for example: Keywords: kal penn, kal penn death, kal penn death house, etc.. Now of course I list the keywords in the tags and in the all in one seo pack tags for each post which you can find at the bottom of the post page when writing an article. Now for my permalinks I have it set like so for example: www.therantandrave.net/wp/2009/04/06/kal-penn-death/ Right after I posted this article I happenned to get 15,000 unique visits(the story must of been super popular) I am still unsure where all of the traffic was directed from to be honest. In my all in one seo pack plugin, I go into it and add keywords from every post also every time I make a new post into the meta tags and what not. I do about 3+ posts a day, I have found that doing 5 posts based on google trends top searched keywords works best. But don't just do em based on that, try to write a couple that interests you or that you might think might interest others too on top of it. Make sure to keep your xml site map updated after any update to the site, this helps also. So all in all, I use these plugins, I write 5 or so stories based off of googles top searched trends, I make sure titles are short and have the main keywords in them and the permalinks also, I make sure to include keywords in tags, meta, in the post itself and at the bottom of the post itself and I bold all of them in my posts and I write 1 or 2 articles not related to google trends on top of it. I let my auto cross posters submit em to social networking sites, twitter works wonders if you have a lot of followers in which I have about 1400 followers that I added within an hour of setting my twitter up and I use ping backs(pingomatic.com) also. I get spam from it though but I do get traffic from it. I do not use any backlinks yet.. So I have done this without using any backlinks. You can check my info on alexa if you don't believe me. So all in all, I have only been learning and working with SEO for 2 months now as well as my site which has only been up for 2 months now. I've noticed the top trends are also keywords that aren't competitive either for instance I posted a story tonight about the boston marathon 09 and typed it in google and was listed in the 1st search for that keyword and for boston marathon 09 video keyword which got me a bunch of traffic from the search engine for a few hours before it was knocked out of place by more popular sites that ended up doing the same articles. But I have noticed that I am getting more and more search engine traffic every day which is what we aim for. I really hope this helps you guys. If you need help or advice just ask me or send a PM =).
wooooo... very long page title Do you know that page titles are limit to 60-65 characters? The excess words are not anymore read by search engines.. But anyway, i really like the plug-ins you have shared to us.
Yeah, I have found that using titles that are more straight to the point have helped me a lot though. But no problem dude!
Thanks again =). I will help anyone who needs help with their wordpress and seo, free of charge. I honestly know how frustrating it can be, trust me, this seems like a 24/7 job for me but hard work pays off in the end. You just have to keep up with it everyday.
I might just take you up on that as I am about to launch a blog in the next couple of weeks! Well done. Great work!
I am still not familiar with Google Trend. I am currently using Google Adwords keyword tool to think of titles of my posts. My blog is almost 2 months old, and I am only getting about 100 hits per day. Your 500-1000 is amazing. I'm just a little bit confused with Trend so if you can post more details about how to use it or PM me that would be great. Thank you.
Good stuff, TheRantAndRave. I just launched my own blog (http://techshots.net) a few days ago. Though my blog is very specific and I don't believe in writing based off of google trends, I think that's an interesting way to do it. My blog is based more on my specific content due to my interests and my passions, however. How has the All in One SEO plugin helped, and do you know specifically what it does?