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?
A basic strategy I used was to post a link to my blog when commenting or replying to other people's blogs.
2) What were your keywords. How did you select those keywords? Did you change or refine your keywords through the semester?
To start the semester my keywords were "entrepreneur" and "entrepreneurship" as well as my full name. I tried to remain constant with these keywords throughout the semester.
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?
Because of the interviews this class requires, I used Youtube to enhance my SOE efforts. Generally, social media ignored my blog, even with the high amount of traffic Youtube gets.
4) What was your most "viral" post? In other words, which post obtained the most traffic? Why do you think?
My most "viral" post was my list of Top 5 World's Biggest Problems. I think it gained the most traffic because I listed a few 'biggest problems' that most people didn't have.
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?
Unfortunately my blog did not make it to the first page of results, however one of my Youtube videos was the first result to pop up.
SEO is definitely something that is tricky, and if you don’t have a goal in mind, it’s definitely difficult to know what you’re aiming for. In the beginning of the semester, we really didn’t know what we would ultimately be targeting and I experienced the same struggles that you did with returning high-ranking results. I’m not too upset about it though, as I know how to target with paid traffic, and if I were to do a real start up, I would use those options to build a highly targeted following instead of waiting on them to come find me. You can check out my post for this assignment at http://ufentclassblog.blogspot.com/2016/04/google-gold.html
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