Sunday, April 17, 2016

Google Gold

1.) Unfortunately I have not focused most on my blog on being search engine optimized. While I could have done a better job of utilizing labels in each of my posts, I think it would have helped the most if I named my blog after my product or included the product name in the URL. I did make sure to post a link to my blog in every student's blog that I commented on, but those links are read as text by Blogger, which would not really help in having the search engine give more relevancy to my blog.

2.) The only keywords that were used throughout this course were the week name labels. This blog post has one for example, Week 14.

3.) I did not use social media to any extent in promoting my blog. In the case of this specific blog, along with the posts that it has created, I'm not sure a significant increase in the site traffic would have been achieved. Most social media users click on blog post links that relate to a topic of interest and have the potential to teach them something new. Most of the posts on this blog have been analytic in nature, although I think some people would be interested in those posts with videos.

4.) The "My Entrepreneurship Story" and "What I Think are the World's Biggest Problems" blog posts obtained the highest number of page views. I think this is because of the recent creation of the blog at the time those posts were created. At that moment in time I was sharing the URL to my blog with friends and family members and while they may have looked at the blog post, they most likely didn't continue to visit the site for subsequent posts.


5.) Since I did not have any pre-defined keywords at the start of the semester, I have done some searches with the keywords I believe I would have used. Note that each page of search results in google shows 10 results.

Keywords - rank - page

uf odd job blog - 10th - 1st page

ent 3003 odd job blog - 1st - 1st page 

 uf odd job app blog - 6th - 1st page

 While these results are all on the first page of Google, they are due to very specific searches. Had I searched "uf odd job" I would have had a very hard time finding the results since my blog is not optimized for general keywords.

 
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  1. farsid88April 20, 2016 at 5:00 PM

    Dear Sebastian,

    I almost feel disappointed that you did not focus on Google because it sounds like you clearly know what goes into it. If you had, you would probably have successfully placed your blog in the top 10 results. I learned a couple of things reading what you wrote above. Thanks for sharing and for your honesty. Take a look at my google gold post here http://taleemreflections.blogspot.com/2016/04/google-gold.html.

    Farrukh

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  2. UnknownApril 20, 2016 at 7:00 PM

    I understand where you are coming from. I did not focus on search engine optimization with my blog either. Based on the explanations you gave, I am sure you have the capabilities to do so if you wanted without the need for searching such specific terms. I think you have a great point about social media not being that great of a traffic generator. I did not utilize it with my blog. If you want to check it out, here is the link http://mrufent.blogspot.com/2016/04/google-gold.html

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