My keywords were:
- Entrepreneur
- Entrepreneurship
- Business
- Innovation
- Venture
I selected these key words based off of the overall theme of my blog and its content. Most of my posts' topics had to do with one of these keywords.
I used my social media to enhance my search engine optimization efforts by linking my blog's web address on Twitter. I selected Twitter because it is a social media based off of reading content primarily, not really graphic/picture based. The same goes for blogs; most of the content is words as opposed to pictures of video. Therefore, I thought that the same type of people that would be interested in Twitter would also be interested in a blog. Twitter was not as responsive as I would have liked to my blog. However, I contribute that to the fact that my Twitter audience is not the type of audience I target with my blog.
My most viral post was Venture Concept No. 1. It received 5 comments and 40 views in a week. I think that this blog post in particular received the most traffic because I linked it in many of my comments and on Twitter as well. This post illustrated my full venture, how I saw an opportunity for it, and how I plan on proceeding. I am happy that this post specifically generated the most traffic because I received great feedback and constructive criticism on my ideas.
I did not make it to the first page of Google. I also did not expect to, being that entrepreneurship is a broad topic and there are many blogs, articles, and online journals that are world-renown on the web. I am still proud of my blog nonetheless, I worked very hard on not only my content but its layout.
Hi Nicole,
ReplyDeleteI really like how you tried to use social media to expand your blog and make it more popular. Although it sounds like you didn't receive a great response on it at first, I would still keep trying because all it takes is one person sharing your link with a few other people to make it really popular. Other than that, keep using those key words because it seems like you are on the right track. Good luck and here is a link to my blog post: http://rodnog95.blogspot.com/2016/04/going-for-google-gold.html
Hey Nicole. I also used some of your keywords such as "entrepreneur" and "entrepreneurship" for most of my posts early in the year because I felt as if they were what my blog was generally about. It's great that you were also linking your blog to other social media sites to increase your SEO searching later on, something I should have done. I also did not make it to the front of google, not much promotion being a large reason, but you're optimization is most likely better than mine will ever be by the end of the semester. If you would like to check out my post, here's the link: http://thisisnotawkward.blogspot.com/2016/04/google-gold.html
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